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Law school speaker to address democracy and nonviolence in Iran

The School of Law’s Dean Rusk Center for International Law and Policy will host Middle Eastern scholar Ramin Jahanbegloo, who will speak on democracy and nonviolence in Iran, April 14 at 3:30 p.m. in Classroom A (120) of Hirsch Hall. The event is open free to the public.

Jahanbegloo is currently an associate professor and the holder of the York-Noor Visiting Chair in Islamic Studies at York University in Toronto, Canada. Previously he served as a researcher at the French Institute for Iranian Studies and as a fellow at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard University.

This lecture is co-sponsored by the sociology department in the Franklin College of Arts and Sciences.