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Friday, June 25, 2010

Women and Minorities Under Islamic Law

Breakout Panel 2b
Time: 11:45 a.m. t0 12:45 p.m.

Preeminent Islamic law scholars will explore the rights and status of women and minorities under Islamic law, an understanding of which is important to representation in the family law, domestic violence, trusts and estate, and other fields of legal practice.

Particular areas that may be addressed include: :

  • Marriage, divorce, inheritance, sexual relations, custody, homosexuality
  • How to separate what is seen as mandated by Islamic law (Sharia), versus that mandated by culture?;
  • How does the interpretation of specific laws vary in different Islamic countries?

Moderator: Pnina Lahav, Professor, Boston University School of Law

Speakers:

 

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Unique Networking Opportunity

First Annual Building Relationships and Strengthening Connections Program

NASABA is proud to announce the first annual "Building Relationships and Strengthening Connections" program at Convention. This mentoring program seeks to promote relationship building between law students, junior attorneys, senior attorneys and other members of the legal and professional community in attendance.

With the presence of numerous senior attorneys, this program provides an opportunity for law students and young attorneys to seek guidance as they pursue a career in the legal profession.

If you are a law school student or a junior attorney and wish to participate, please respond to Lalitha Gunturi at lalithargunturi@gmail.com with your name, law school class year or years in practice, practice area, the days you will be attending the convention, and what you are looking for from this program.

 

Saturday, June 26, 2010

An Insider's View of the White House

Plenary Breakfast
Time: 8:00 a.m. t0 9:00 a.m.

Hari Sreenivasan of the famed News Hour with Jim Lehrer will discuss what's going on inside the White House with two South Asian community organizers/attorneys turned Obama officials and will learn how NASABA and its membership can contribute to and gain from the

White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.

Moderator: Hari Sreenivasan, PBS Online/On-Air Correspondent,The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer

Speakers:

  • Kiran Ahuja, Executive Director, White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders
  • Nick Rathod, Director, White House Office of Inter-Governmental Affairs

Featuring Renowned Chef Devanand (David) Chinta

Famed Chef Devanand (David) Chinta will be cooking for us throughout the Convention Weekend including Indian Snacks, a South Indian Breakfast on Saturday morning, and a delectable North Indian dinner for the Saturday Evening Gala.

Having trained under two Michelin-starred chefs in England and France, Chef Chinta brings high-end European training along with Indian culinary experience to his new position as the Chef de Cuisine at the Boston InterContinental's Four Diamond Miel "Brasserie Provençale." Chef Chinta, who hails from Hyderabad, India, trained at the Institute of Hotel Management and Catering Technology in New Delhi, India and the Oberoi Hotel in Hyderabad. He continued his training at the Les Quatre Saisons Hôtel, a boutique hotel in Paris, France, as Premier de Commis.

 

Saturday, June 26, 2010

DISCOUNTED ROOMS FILLING UP FAST

Convention Gala
Time: 7:30 p.m.

NASABA has secured a deeply discounted room rate at the Intercontinental Hotel Boston for Convention registrants. These discounted rates are available only for reservations made while supplies last, but expire in any event on June 5. If you haven't already, please be sure to book your room reservations at these discounted rates Click Here.

Desi Comic Rajiv Satyal

Rajiv Satyal will be performing his unique brand of comedy for our entertainment at the Gala Dinner on Saturday Night. Rajiv is the small, bespectacled Indian humorist from Ohio whose witty, universal, and TV-clean act resonates with Middle America by covering everything from racial issues to soap bottles to his favorite topic - himself. This former engineer and P&G marketer has repeatedly opened for Dave Chappelle, Kevin Nealon, Tim Allen, and also for Russell Peters in sold-out theaters across the U.S.A.

 

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Opportunities for Uniquely Boston Experiences on Sunday

Historic Faneuil Hall
Time: 10:30 a.m.

Register for these events a la carte at the Convention Website

Duck Tour of Boston

Take an amphibious Duck Tour ($32/person)
through Boston and Boston Harbor. You'll cruise by all the places that make Boston the birthplace of freedom and a city of firsts, from the golden-domed State House to Bunker Hill and the TD Banknorth Garden, Boston Common and Copley Square to the Big Dig, Government Center to fashionable Newbury Street, Quincy Market to the Prudential Tower, and more. And, as the best of Boston unfolds before your eyes, your ConDUCKtor will be giving you lots of little known facts and interesting insights about our unique and wonderful city.

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South Asian Art Tour

NASABA has also arranged for a private tour of the South Asian Collection at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston ($20/person). On view in the Asian paper conservation lab will be a temporary exhibition created specifically for NASABA. Laura Weinstein, Assistant Curator of South Asian Art, will present the first part of the exhibit, which will include a selection of masterpieces of South Asian painting. The second part will include a group of paintings in various stages of completion chosen to illustrate the methods and materials these artists used. Joan Wright, Bettina Burr Conservator, will be on hand to talk about how South Asian paintings were made and how they are conserved. As a special treat, visitors will have a chance to look through our high-powered microscope at a painting to see what the surface looks like magnified fifty times.


Questions? Call Natasha Varyani, VP of Convention at 617-449-6522
email her at nvaryani@mccarter.com

 

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Reconsideration of U.S. vs. Bhagat Singh Thind

Historic Faneuil Hall
Time: 2:15 p.m. to 3:45 p.m.

Judges Gandhi, Thapar And Woodlock To Hear Reargument Of United States v. Bhagat Singh Thind

Judges:

  • Hon. Amul R Thapar, United States District Judge, Eastern District of Kentucky
  • Hon. Vijay "Jay" Chand Gandhi, United States Magistrate Judge, United States District Court, Central District of California
  • Hon. Douglas P. Woodlock, United States District Judge, District of Massachusetts

Preeminent South Asian attorneys will argue a 1923 civil rights case that Made History. In Thind, the Supreme Court deemed South Asians ineligible for citizenship because U.S. law allowed only free whites to become naturalized citizens.
Judges Thapar, Gandhi and Woodlock will hear arguments and provide insight into the judicial deliberative process. Judges Thapar and Gandhi are the first South Asian federal Article III judges in the United States.

Room Rate Discounts
Expire On May 24

NASABA has secured a deeply discounted room rate at the Intercontinental Hotel Boston for Convention registrants. These discounted rates are available only for reservations made on or before May 24, 2010. If you haven't already, please be sure to book your room reservations at these discounted rates. click here.

Uconn And Bu Law School To Hostlaw Student Reception At 2010 NASABA CONVENTION

Law Student Reception

Hosted by:

the University of Connecticut School of Law and the Boston University School of Law

Saturday, June 26, 2010

Intercontinental Boston
Time: 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Questions? Call Natasha Varyani, VP of Convention at 617-449-6522 or email her at nvaryani@mccarter.com

 

June 24 - June 27, 2010

2010 NASABA Convention

Intercontinental Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts

Please take advantage of Early Bird Registration Rates and Register Now for the Seventh Annual NASABA Convention in historic Boston, Massachusetts. Excellent opportunities to network, earn CLE and spend time with colleagues old and new. The South Asian American legal community has much to be proud of and we look forward to celebrating together in Boston.

Sonjui L. Kumar
President, NASABA

The North American South Asian Bar Association (NASABA) is a principal voice for legal issues in the South Asian American community and a diverse voice for the community at large. NASABA chapters serve local communities in the United States and Canada, their members leading and practicing in top law firms, government agencies, academia, and public interest groups. With over 6,000 members in 27 chapters NASABA provides a powerful support network for South Asians in the legal community as well as a deep expert pool for the media and events.

Sincerely,
NASABA

For Questions, Call Natasha Varyani, VP of Convention at 617-449-6522 or
Email: nvaryani@mccarter.com

Confirmed Keynote Speakers:

  • U.S. Attorney, Preet Bharara
  • Former Interim U.S. Assistant Secy of the Treasury, Neel Kashkari

More: Don't miss it - Early registration available until March 31, 2010

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