Baku Diary, Summer 2004
During a six-week period in May-June, Phil joined a team of lawyers involved in assisting two Azerbaijan law schools in developing curriculum and improving legal education. The project included efforts to develop post-graduate law schools, a series of roundtables for Azerbaijan law professors and site visits to law departments by the five ABA-CEELI project participants. These photographs were made during that visit during which Phil advised on curriculum and met the other project participants, law professors and administrators from Western University and Khazar University, government officials, lawyers, and judges in Baku and surrounding areas. He also viewed a number of law classes and attended an Azerbaijan trial.
"Market Gate," Old City, Baku
Phil in front of the Maiden's Tower, downtown Baku, next door to the ABA-CEELI offices.
Eleven members of the law faculties of three universities participated in the ABA-CEELI program on teaching methodology directed by Prof. Tony Winer with assistance from Gulara Guliyeva, and other members of the ABA CEELI legal education team. The faculty participants are pictured here in ceremonies held at the National History Museum honoring their participation in the special series of seminars.
One of the towers of the ancient inner wall to the old city of Baku.
Faculty from Khazar and Western universities participated in curriculum development workshops held by ABA-CEELI in June 2004. Both universities are forming graduate-level law colleges, with assistance from the ABA-CEELI Legal Education Team.
Three members of the ABA-CEELI staff in the Baku office wait anxiously for the special birthday lunch. Shown are (left to right): Parviz Tahmazov, staff attorney; Ruslan Hajiyev, office assistant; and Javanshir Azizov, driver.
"Street" in the Old City of Baku
Dedication of new moot court room, Khazar University, Baku, June 2004. The project was completed under direction of ABA-CEELI with financial assistance from US AID. Shown with the television cameraman at the ceremony are Gulara Guliyeva, staff attorney; and Lynn Sferrazza, country director for ABA-CEELI in Azerbaijan.
Group scene of participants, friends, visitors to "graduation" ceremony held in late May, 2004, for the ABA-CEELI teaching methodology workshops. The photograph was taken in the National Museum of History.
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