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April 2016 Monthly Meeting

This month two top-level European officials joined the Privacy Coalition: Paul Nemitz, the Director for Fundamental rights and Union citizenship in the Directorate-General for Justice of the European Commission, and Giovanni Buttarelli, the European Data Protection Supervisor. Both joined the Privacy Coalition on separate days to discuss the Privacy Shield, surveillance, EU Reform, and privacy and civil liberties in the digital age.

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March 31, 2006

Washington DC Conference on International Data Protection and Security

The American Bar Association Section of International Law and the Association Internationale Des Jeunes Avocats are sponsoring a conference on May 5-6 in Washington, DC to discuss international data protection and security. The group sponsoring the event invite those interested in attending to register the early bird deadline is April 4, 2006.

For more information, see: http://www.aija.org/modules/motionmill/index.php?iid=1

From the Sponsor's Web Site:

AIJA organises seminars and law courses either at the Annual Congresses or at other times throughout the year. These meetings are both organized and run by the AIJA members themselves through the Commissions. These meetings offer excellent opportunities to young lawyers and inhouse counsels to network and to develop personal visibility in the international field of the legal profession.

In many jurisdictions, the AIJA programmes are recognised on an individual basis for the purpose of Continuing Legal Education (CLE). In addition, AIJA has been recognized as an accredited CLE provider by the State of New York (USA). NY CLE credits are also usable by lawyers from other jurisdictions, including the UK and Hong Kong. The jurisdictions believed to have reciprocity include Alabama, Arkansas California*, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Wisconsin and the Law Society of Hong Kong

(*Approved only for courses exceeding 60 minutes in length).

Posted by EPIC at March 31, 2006 10:57 AM