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An Appraisal of Civil Society's Struggle for Democracy in Iran

A lecture by Shiva Falsafi, UCLA

Thursday, April 29, 2010
3:00 PM
10383 Bunche Hall
UCLA
Los Angeles, CA United States

Shiva Falsafi is a lawyer and lecturer at the UCLA Department of Women’s Studies. Shiva received her J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law and her L.L.M. from Harvard Law School. Her research focuses on the history of social and political movements in Iran and also captures the relationship between multiculturalism and the religion clauses of the American Constitution. She is the author of “Civil Society and Democracy in Japan, Iran, Iraq and Beyond” forthcoming in the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Spring 2010.

Cost: Free and Open to the Public

For more information please contact

Johanna Romero, Center for Near Eastern Studies
Tel: (310) 825-1455
cnes@international.ucla.edu
http://www.international.ucla.edu/cnes/