University of Miami to hold symposium on U.S.-Cuba ties
By LUISA YANEZ
lyanez@MiamiHerald.com
The debate over the ongoing shift in U.S.-Cuba relations will be
explored Saturday in a symposium on the legal implications of such a change.
The symposium will address the topics of trade and investment in Cuba in
a free market economy, U.S. property claims in Cuba, Cuba under Raúl
Castro and ongoing litigation involving these issues.
The event is free and open to the public.
The debate -- to be held from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at the University of
Miami Storer Auditorium -- will feature several panelists. They include:
• James Cason, former ambassador to Cuba and current member of the State
Department. Cason was stationed in Cuba during the Elían Gonzalez saga
more then a decade ago.
• Daniel Fisk, former special assistant to President George W. Bush and
National Security Council senior director for Western Hemisphere
affairs. He is currently the coordinator for governance at the
International Republican Institute.
• George Harper, president of the Inter-American Bar Association.
• Andy Gomez, assistant provost at the University of Miami and a member
of the Brookings Institution Cuba Initiative Task Force.
``We are expecting a robust, healthy debate about how a change in
U.S.-Cuba relations could affect property, trade and investment in
Cuba,'' said George Williamson, editor-in-chief of the University of
Miami Inter-American Law Review, who will host the symposium.
Williamson said that his law review chose this topic for its annual
symposium because of its particular impact, relevance and importance to
the South Florida Community.
Other panelists include Jose Azel (Institute for Cuban and
Cuban-American Studies), Pedro Freyre (Akerman Senterfitt), Michael
Gordon (professor emeritus at the University of Florida Levin College of
Law), Yosbel Ibarra (Greenberg Traurig, LLP) and Nick Gutierrez
(Gutierrez & Zarraluqui, LLP).
For more information, contact Lisa Atkins at 909-210-2151 or at
LAtkins07@gmail.com.
University of Miami to hold symposium on U.S.-Cuba ties - Cuba -
MiamiHerald.com (18 February 2010)
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/cuba/story/1486539.html
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