The Activist Lawyers Training Seminar - Itinerary

Date

Program

Overnight

Monday/June 29

5:30pm 7:00pm
Opening Banquet

Jerusalem

7:00pm 8:30pm
*Adv. Nitsana Darshan
Leitner, Director of Shurat
Hadin:
The Legal Battle Against
Terrorism & Q&A
Tuesday/June 30

Hotel Breakfast
9:00am 11:30am
*Israel Supreme Court,
Tour of the Supreme Court
and Lecture by Supreme
Court Justice Yoram
Danziger:
Protecting Human Rights
Through High Court Petitions
Lunch
1:00pm - 2:30pm
*Visit to the Security Fence
with Calev Myers:
International and Domestic
Law Regarding The Security
Fence and the Palestinian
Refugee Right of Return
2:30pm 3:30pm
Military Commanders:
The Dangers Arising from
Syria and Hezbollah
Free Time

Jerusalem

Wednesday/July 1

Hotel Breakfast

Jerusalem

9:00am 10:30am
*Israel Police Headquarters,
Lecture by Shaul Gordon,
Legal Advisor to the Israeli
Police:
Preserving Detainees Rights
in Administrative Detention
and Israeli/U.S. Law
Comparison
11:00am 12:30pm
*IDF Military Court,
Lecture by President Judge
Menachem Lieberman:
Due Process in the Israeli
Military Courts
Lunch at the Military Base
12:30pm 1:30pm
2:30pm 5:30pm
*Daniel Reisner:
Using International Law to
Fight BDS in Court and How
to Counsel Clients on
Responding to BDS
*Kent A. Yalowitz:
U.S. Constitutional and AntiDiscrimination Law vs. BDS
Dinner in Jerusalem
Thursday/July 2

Hotel Breakfast
8:00am 9:00am
*Kent A. Yalowitz:
Litigating U.S. Anti-Terror
Cases
9:15am 11:45am

Tiberias

*Eugene Kontorovich:
International Law and legality
of the settlements

*Avi Bell
International Law & Gaza
Packed Lunches on Bus
Travel North
ATV rides along the Syrian
Border
Dinner at Decks Restaurant
& Boat Cruise
Friday/July 3

Hotel Breakfast

Jerusalem

Travel back to Jerusalem via

Tel Aviv
Walking Tour and Lunch in
Tel Aviv
3:00pm Arrive in
Jerusalem
Free Time
Traditional Sabbath dinner
at the Western Wall
Saturday/July 4

Hotel Breakfast
Walking Tour of the Old
City
Optional Sabbath Services
at the Great Synagogue
Sabbath Lunch at the Hotel
Free Time in Jerusalem

Sunday/July 5

8:00am 9:00am
Final Breakfast Banquet

Jerusalem

9:00am 10:30am
*Shurat HaDin
International Media Panel:
How to Present Israels Case
in the Media
10:45am 12:15pm
*Dr. Irwin Cotler:
BDS -- The New AntiJewishness, Human Rights
and the Law
Program Ends