Reporter Volume 26, No.23 April 6, 1995

By LISA WILEY
News Bureau Staff
Ten law students from the Jagiellonian Law School in Krakow, Poland,
are visiting Buffalo from April 2-11 for the second half of a human
rights exchange program with the UB School of Law.
	The 1994-95 Polish/American seminar's theme is "Principles and
Practices of Tolerance."
	"The idea was to have the exchange coincide with the UN's
Decade of Tolerance," according to Isabel Marcus, UB professor of law
who helped organize the project with Virginia Leary, UB Distinguished
Service Professor of law and co-director of the UB Human Rights
Center, and two professors from Jagiellonian.
	This program is a pilot project for a proposed 10-year
exchange program that would coincide with the United Nations Decade
for Human Rights Education and Tolerance.
	The project began this past fall, when Marcus and Leary
traveled to Krakow with 10 UB law students.
	During the session at the Jagiellonian Center for Human
Rights, UB and Jagiellonian students and faculty addressed the topic
of discrimination against various groups, including religious
minorities, indigenous populations, women, children, persons with
disabilities and persons with HIV. Lectures and readings on the
protection of human rights served to guide the students' development
of their research agenda for a joint project concerning minority
rights. They are grouped into four-person teams, consisting of two
students from each country.
When the seminar reconvenes in Buffalo, each student team will be
scheduled for a presentation of its work. In the interim, they have
communicated via electronic mail.
	UB students will receive three credit hours for their
participation in the seminar.
	"I believe that this format has interesting possibilities for
all parts of the world," Marcus said, noting that South Africa would
be another country with which to create a similar exchange. While in
Krakow, Marcus lectured on the recognition of women's rights as
international human rights.