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Professor Pablo Manterola is a Visiting Scholar at the University of Houston Law Center (UHLC) from January 17 to February 3, 2023.

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Professor Manterola is a faculty member at the Universidad de los Andes, and holds a Licensure in Law from the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and a Ph.D in Law from Universidad de los Andes, where he is also co-director of the Business Law LL.M. Program. His main area of teaching and research is corporate law, and he is currently conducting research in shareholder disputes in U.S. law. His activities as a Visiting Scholar with UHLC are sponsored by the Chilean National Agency for Research and Development (ANID).

Thank you, Prof. Moll, for connecting Prof. Manterola with our Visiting Scholars program. We are very happy to have him here at UHLC.

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Welcome Professor Vasilka Sancin, PhD visiting the UH Law Center August 31, 2022 – September 7th, 2022.   Professor Sancin is a Full Professor of International Law, Head of Department of International Law and Director of the Institute for International Law and International Relations at University of Ljubjana.  She will provide us with a short presentation followed by a few questions and answers.

Professor Sancin

Presentation: United Nations Human Rights Committee

Professor Sancin currently serves as a member and Vice-Chair of the UNHR Committee. Professor Sancin will present on its composition, mandate, structure, and functioning, highlighting some cases of recent decisions involving periodic monitoring of States parties' compliance with their obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and Views issued on complaints submitted by individuals arguing violations of their rights, including in environmental and climate change related issues.

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UH Law Center’s Global and Graduate Programs empowers the legal community to make a positive impact on the world. We offer dozens of classes, seminars, CLEs, centers, programs and collaborations covering a wide range of international and global fields. We are expanding the global footprint of the UH Law Center by offering world class LL.M. programs and training opportunities to our foreign lawyers (U.S. Law LL.M.) and our domestic lawyers (International Law and related fields), and by engaging the global community in mutually beneficial collaborations between the UH Law Center and universities, firms, governments, organizations, corporations, and practitioners around the world.