Explore the growing connection between the international labor rights and human rights movements. 

• An overview of international labor law
• Labor protection mechanisms in the U.N. and the Inter-American systems
• Human rights fact-finding and reporting strategies to protect against sexual harassment and discrimination in the workplace
• Human rights violations against union members in Colombia
• Use of U.S. courts to address human rights violations in the U.S. and abroad
• Labor rights advocacy in the U.S. 

Speakers include: 

• Sarah Paoletti, International Human Rights Law Clinic, Washington College of Law American University
• Professor David Weissbrodt, University of Minnesota Law School
• Rebecca Smith, Immigrant Worker Justice Project, National Employment Law Project
• Robin Phillips, The Advocates for Human Rights
• Gerardo Cajamarca, United Steelworkers Union
• Justin Cummins, Miller-O'Brien, P.L.L.P.
• Dan Kovalik, United Steeworkers Union
• Brendan Cummins, Miller-O'Brien, P.L.L.P.
• Claudia Flores, Women's Rights Project, American Civil Liberties Union
• Matt Gladue, Twin Cities Religion and Labor Network
• Milo Mumgard, Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest
• Jennifer Stohl Powell, Refugee, Immigrant and Migrant Services, Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services

Annual Assylum Conference

Join local and national asylum experts and government officials to learn the basics of asylum law and practice.  Experienced immigration attorneys and asylum volunteers will get up-to-date information about new legislation, cases, and policies affecting asylum seekers.  Register now for this essential course.

• The Basics of Asylum
• Membership in a Particular Social Group: A Gender Analysis
• Preparing the Asylum Case
• Practice Before the Chicago Asylum Office
• Working with Survivors of Torture
• Advanced Practice: Asylum Law Legislative and Federal Court Updates
• Emerging Issues in Asylum Law
• Immigration Court Practice

Faculty includes Deborah Anker (Harvard Law School Immigrant and Refugee Clinic); Maria Baldini-Poterman (Scott D. Pollock & Assoc. PC); Benjamin Casper (Attorney at Law); Immigration Judge Joseph Dierkes; Karen Ellingson (Attorney at Law); Kim Hunter (Attorney at Law); John Keller (Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota); ICE Assistant Chief Counsel Kevin Lashus; Anne Lockner (Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, LLP); Immigration Judge Kristin W. Olmanson; Nancy Peterson (Attorney at Law); ICE Assistant Chief Counsel Daniel Pornschloegl; Dr. Patricia Shannon (Center for Victims of Torture); Dinesh Shenoy (Ingber & Aronson, PA); Virgil Wiebe (University of St. Thomas School of Law)