Lester Brickman was the featured speaker in February at the American Tort Reform Foundation's inaugural lecture series. A Discussion of the Political and Public-Policy Consequences of the Tobacco Settlement Attorneys' Fee Award. He also spoke on this subject at Fordham Law School and the Manhattan Institute. At a round-table discussion on a permanent international criminal court at the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Schools, she indicated that although she supported the establishment of an international criminal court, she could not support the statute adopted in Rome this summer since it expanded on the definition of war crimes, making it possible to charge Jews living in Jerusalem or Hebron with war crimes. Marci Hamilton has conjoined her dual interests of religious freedom legislation and intellectual property through her web site, which has become an interactive site for all those groups and individuals involved with and interested in pending state and federal legislation.
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She has continued to speak widely on the issue of religious liberty legislation, appearing at New York University School of Law, Alabama Municipal League, Illinois Municipal League, and the AALS Annual Meeting, among other places. She presented papers at the University of Minnesota Law School, the Copyright Society of the USA, and University of California at Berkeley. She presented an oral argument before the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Amos v. Maryland on behalf of amicus curiae Association of State Correctional Administrators, contending that the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act are beyond Congress's power. Michel Rosenfeld was a panelist at two conferences celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Universals and the Challenge of Cultural Relativism.