TOPEKA - Washburn University will sign an agreement of cooperation with the Supreme Court of Justice of the Republic of Paraguay at 10 a.m. on Thursday, Dec. 9, 1999, in the Robinson Courtroom at the Washburn University School of Law.
The cooperation agreement provides a framework for the realization of mutually agreed upon activities involving the Washburn University School of Law and the Division of Research, Legislation and Publications of the Paraguayan Supreme Court's International Center of Judicial Studies. Such activities may include 1) communication and consultation, 2) exchange of publications, material and information, 3) exchange of professors, students, researchers, practitioners and scholars affiliated with the activities of the two institutions, 4) joint research activities and publications, 5) participation in, and sponsorship of seminars, academic and professional meetings and training programs and 6) other appropriate programs and activities.
Representing Washburn at the signing ceremony will be Jerry Farley, president; James Concannon, dean of the Law School and Russell Smith, director of the MBA (master of business administration) program. Minister Elixeno Ayala of the Supreme Court of Justice; Dr. Juan Esteban Aguirre, ambassador of Paraguay to the United States (to be confirmed); and Dr. Mario Ramos Reyes, consul general of Paraguay in Kansas, will be representing the Supreme Court of Justice of the Republic of Paraguay. The Republic of Paraguay and the State of Kansas have been partners in the Partners of Americas program since 1968.
The preamble of the document that will be signed states that the signatories have entered into the agreement because of their "mutual commitment to international understanding, to democracy, and to the role of law in the promotion of liberty, justice, and social and economic development."