The legal and political aspects of lawsuits relating to international terrorism are the subject of this year’s New Hall Smith-Howarth Law Lecture, which takes place tomorrow evening (11 May).
The legal and political aspects of lawsuits relating to international terrorism are the subject of this year’s New Hall Smith-Howarth Law Lecture, which takes place tomorrow evening (11 May).
Dr Suzelle Smith is a partner and co-founder of Howarth & Smith, a Los Angeles-based law firm that is part of the consortium representing families of the 9/11 victims in their suit against those individuals and organisations suspected of being behind the attack.
She graduated summa cum laude in Political Science from Boston University and has an MPhil in Politics from Oxford and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Virginia Law School.
Her many high-profile cases include the Estate of Doris Duke matter and she has won numerous accolades, including being named one of the US’s top ten litigators in 1997, one of the top 50 female litigators in 2004 and one of California’s ‘SuperLawyers’ in 2004 and 2005.
Dr Smith is currently a Visiting Scholar at New Hall, Cambridge and her talk this evening, which will also cover the issue of collection of damages from state sponsors of terrorism, promises to be fascinating.
The New Hall Smith-Howarth Law Lecture is open to all and takes place at 5.15pm tomorrow in Lecture Room B16 of the Faculty of Law on the Sidgwick site, between Sidgwick Avenue and West Road.
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