Workshop 4: Migrant Workers and Pro Bono Assistance (Cont'd)

Session 2: Attacking international legal problems through strategic partnerships

This workshop will involve participants in an examination of the steps involved in building a practical cross-border work product. It will focus on how the different perspectives of pro bono actors, whether they are NGO, international law firm, law faculty, or researcher, can inform development of the materials. The workshop will focus on how participants can apply the lessons learned to their own fields.

Workshop Goals:

This half day workshop will unveil the Guide to Cross-Border Legal Issues for Migrant Workers (final title TBD), an Open Society Foundation-funded effort to identify and analyze major cross-border legal issues faced by migrant workers across specific migration routes in the region. This workshop will pick up from where we left off at last year’s Mandalay conference workshop, which covered the Guide during its development. The session will introduce participants to the major cross-border legal issues identified by the authors of the Guide, the potential legal remedies, and the concrete next steps that stakeholders will need to take in order to begin making these remedies accessible. The second part of the workshop will involve participants in an examination of the steps involved in building a practical cross-border work product. It will focus on how the different perspectives of pro bono actors, whether they are NGOs, international law firms, law faculty, or researchers, can inform development of the materials. The workshop will focus on how participants can apply the lessons learned to their own fields.