Mary and Philip Seeman Health Law, Policy & Ethics Seminar: Matiangai Sirleaf

Mary and Philip Seeman Health Law, Policy & Ethics Seminar

Presents:

Matiangai Sirleaf
University of Pittsburgh, Law School

Race, Fear & Global Health

Thursday February 13, 2020
12:30pm - 2:00pm
Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park
Solarium (FA2)

Matiangai Sirleaf is an Assistant Professor of Law at the University Pittsburgh School of Law. She previously served as an assistant professor of law at the University of Baltimore School of Law, a Sharswood Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and as a lecturer for the International Human Rights Exchange Programme run by Bard College and University of the Witwatersrand, teaching courses in international law, criminal law, human rights and transitional justice. Her work focuses on remedying the accountability and responsibility gaps that exist in international law. Her current research agenda analyzes the disproportionate distribution of highly-infectious diseases and the role of law in facilitating this result. Her scholarship has appeared in well regarded general and international law reviews. Her most recent publication is the Responsibility for Epidemics, 97 Tex. L. Rev. 285-351 (2018). The University of Pittsburgh awarded Professor Sirleaf the Chancellor's Distinguished Research Award in 2019. She served as a visiting associate professor of law at the University of Maryland School of Law during the fall semester of 2019.

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