Marquette University law students and faculty recently donated 1,793 pounds of books to law schools in Africa through a book drive organized by the student organization Association for Women in Law (AWL) at Marquette University Law School.
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Lawyer
Vol. 81, No. 10, October
2008
Marquette bolsters law schools in seven African countries
Donated law books from Wisconsin bound for Africa
Marquette University law students and faculty recently donated 1,793
pounds of books to law schools in Africa through a
book drive organized by the student organization Association for Women
in Law (AWL) at Marquette University Law School.
In the spring of 2007, Lisa Mazzie Hatlen, assistant professor of
legal writing at Marquette, spoke at a conference
in Nairobi, Kenya, where she observed sparse law libraries and heard
from African students and professors about the scarcity
of law books in their countries. Hatlen shared her experience and
observations with her students when she returned to
Marquette. One of those students, Ashley Thompson, now a third-year
law student at Marquette, took the idea of a book drive to the AWL.
Marquette students collected books and other supplies, which were
added to donations from 22 other law schools.
The books were delivered to Nairobi in early August and were
distributed to various law schools throughout Africa, in
Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia.
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