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April, 2023

Vance Center Continues Promoting Women’s Leadership and Mentorship in South Africa

Representatives of the South Africa Women Lawyers Association at the AWW welcome event. (Photo credit: Bowmans) The AWW project, which aims to support young women of color to advance to senior le... Read More

March, 2023

Vance Center Environment Program Advances WECAN’s Escazú Efforts Ahead of COP2

(Photo credit: Sam Bookman) The international right of Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC), embodied in the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), and the In... Read More

February, 2023

Vance Center Environment Program Is Spotlighted in Clifford Chance Podcast

Clifford Chance Podcast guest speakers, including Vance Center attorney Sam Bookman. (Image credit: Clifford Chance) The Vance Center’s work in supporting last year’s historic United Nations ... Read More

February, 2023

Vance Center Mentorship Program Participants Lead Community Legal Information Clinic in South Africa

AWW mentees at the legal information clinic in Atteridgeville, South Africa. (Photo credit: Kim Lamont) In support of women of color in the legal profession in South Africa, four mentees from the... Read More

December, 2022

Vance Center Provides Amicus Support on Environmental Rights

The Vance Center continued its work advancing climate and environmental rights with two amicus submissions. In both cases, the Environment Program helped to develop arguments drawing on recent de... Read More

November, 2022

Vance Center Panels Consider Free Trade and Empowerment of Women Lawyers

As part of its African Legal Fellows webinar series, the Vance Center organized with the law firm Oraro & Company Advocates a webinar –“The African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement (AFCF... Read More