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FIU Law Professor Cyra Akila Choudhury, recently served as a panelists at the Stoneman Conference on Gender and Human Rights at the invitation of the Albany Law School’s Dean, Penelope Andrews.

The conference, part of Albany Law’s Spring 2013 Kate Stoneman Series of Events, brought together national and international legal scholars of gender rights and international law to discuss the current state of women’s rights.

Professor Choudhury, part of the panel that discussed the issue of culture, spoke on the role of culture in legal reform.

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Cyra Akila Choudhury, associate professor at the Florida International University College of Law, recently presented at a symposium about a book called Presumed Incompetent: The Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia. The symposium, sponsored by the the Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law and Justice, was held at the University of California Berkeley School of Law on March 8.

The symposium brought together nationally recognized scholars from the legal academy to discuss the experiences of discrimination faced by women and particularly women of color in the academy.

Professor Choudhury gave a talk entitled “Diversity and Its Discontents” which explored the issue of discrimination and the use of differing standards of evaluation in a diverse context.

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Florida International University College of Law Professor Cyra Choudhury has been awarded a Santander & IGLP (Institute for Global Law & Policy) Doha Collaborative Research Grant from Harvard Law School to support her research initiative,”Avenues of Legal Reform of Transnational and International Labor Laws in the Gulf and Saudi Arabia.”

The grant will enable Professor Choudhury to travel to South Asia to study male and female laborers who work in the Middle East, with a particular purpose of describing these experiences in order to inform a legal reform proposal.

“I’m delighted to receive this grant from Harvard which will allow me to travel to do field work on the legal framework regulating labor migration from India and Bangladesh to the Middle East.  Receiving a grant given on a competitive basis is an honor and I hope that it will spark an ongoing collaboration with other IGLP scholars working in the same vein,” said Choudhury.

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