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Liberian Training Pilots Innovative Techniques, Supports New Professional Organization

In August, the James A. A. Pierre Judicial Institute (Institute) and the ABA Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI) partnered with the U.S.-based National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL) to conduct training for 20 Liberian public defenders. The five-day seminar emphasized trial court techniques, including practical skills such as examining witnesses, writing motions, and preparing opening and closing statements. Read more »»

 

ABA ROLI and the Carter Center Train New Attorneys

ABA ROLI and the Carter Center Train New Attorneys

The ABA Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI) and the Carter Center sponsored an advocacy training for 20 new Liberian attorneys. The trainees received their certificates of completion from M. Wilkins Wright, president of the Liberian National Bar Association. Read more »»

 

Podcast: ABA ROLI’s Legal Skills Center Helps Reform Legal Education in Liberia Audio

The ABA Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI), in cooperation with the Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law at the University of Liberia, runs a legal skills center. The center is helping to improve legal education and to better prepare law students and recent graduates for their legal career. The center offers scholarships to third-year law students and coordinates the placement of scholarship graduates to work as field attorneys with partner government and non-governmental organizations during their first year of practice. In this podcast, Margaret Snoeren, ABA ROLI deputy country director, discusses the center’s establishment and impact. Listen to the 8-minute audio

 

ABA ROLI Assesses Liberia’s Aliens and Nationality Law

ABA ROLI Assesses Liberia’s Aliens and Nationality Law

The ABA Rule of Law Initiative’s (ABA ROLI’s) Research and Assessments Office recently issued the Analysis of the Aliens and Nationality Law of the Republic of Liberia, undertaken at the request of the Liberian Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization. In a June 25 letter, Commissioner C. Clarence Massaquoi and Deputy Commissioner Abla Gadegbeku-Williams extended their “sincere thanks and appreciation” to ABA ROLI for the “splendid compilation” of the analysis. Read more »»

 

Mediation Training in Liberia

Video: Mediation Training in Liberia Video Clip

Since 2006, the ABA Rule of Law Initiative (ABA ROLI) in Liberia, through its U.S. Agency for International Development-supported access to justice program, has offered mediation skills trainings. About 1,100 Liberian elders, town chiefs, non-governmental organization representatives, lawyers, youth and women’s group leaders participated in the trainings. Read more »

Programs

To learn more about our work in Liberia, contact the ABA Rule of Law Initiative at <rol@staff.abanet.org>.

Anthony ValckeAnthony Valcke
Country Director

American Bar Association
Africa Rule of Law Initiative
Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law (Top Floor)
University of Liberia
Monrovia - Liberia

Phone: +231 6 855 625
Email: avalcke@staff.abanet.org

Background

The Africa Division of the ABA Rule of Law Initiative began its Liberia operations in January of 2006. Based in Monrovia, the Liberia office is committed to promoting access to justice in Liberia. Read more »

Map of Liberia

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Under the direction of Mr. Anthony Valcke, the office has been involved in a wide diversity of activities, including 1) the establishment of a legal aid center in the Louis Arthur Grimes Law School; 2) the establishment of a victim support clinic for victims of gender based violence; 3) the development of training materials and the training of mediators; 4) the creation of scholarships for promising law students involved in public service law; and 5) the provision of legal advice to the Liberian Minister of Labor in his endeavor to update the labor law.

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