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Tony
Barash |
Anthony
H. Barash
Public Address: "Law, Democracy, and the Courts in Central
Asia"
Location: Furman University, Hartness Pavilion
Wednesday, October 6, 2004 at 7:30 pm
Tony
Barash, after years as Senior Vice President, Corporate Affairs
and General Counsel of Bowater Incorporated, became the American
Bar Association/Central European and Eurasian Law Initiative (ABA/CEELI)
Officer in Uzbekistan in May 2003. He led ABA/CEELI's judicial reform
project in Uzbekistan. For a year and a half he worked to develop
the Uzbeki legal and judicial systems in addition to those of other
Central Asian States. The program offered training, workshops and
seminars attended by over 90% of Uzbekistan's 870 active judges,
and published a resource book of ethics materials which has been
distributed to most of the country's judges.
Barash has
served on the Board of Trustees of Pitzer College, Claremont, California;
of the Peace Center for the Performing Arts, Greenville, South Carolina;
of the Urban League of the Upstate, Greenville, South Carolina;
and the University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, Illinois. He
received his A.B., cum laude, from Harvard College and
his Doctor of Jurisprudence from the University of Chicago Law School.
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