AABANY is a proud co-sponsor of the following events in celebration of APA Heritage Month, and we invite you to join us at one or more of them in May. If you have any questions, contact us at [email protected].
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May 13 6:00 pm |
AABANY Co-Sponsors: Brooklyn Women’s Bar Association APAHM Celebration |
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Location: 123 Remsen Street Brooklyn, New York |
The Brooklyn Women’s Bar Association and the Asian American Judges Association of New York are celebrating APA Heritage Month. The Honorable Pamela K. Chen, EDNY, will be the Special Honoree at the celebration. For more information, go to https://www.aabany.org/events/event_details.asp?legacy=1&id=1229319 |
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May 14 8:30 am – 12:15 pm |
AABANY Co-Sponsors: The Fight for Justice: 75th Anniversary of Korematsu v. US |
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Location: Robert H. Jackson Center 305 E. 4th Street Jamestown, New York |
AABANY’s classic trial reenactment is making a return in celebration of APA Heritage Month as well as the 75th anniversary of the Korematsu decision. We are honored to have invited Karen Korematsu, daughter of Fred Korematsu; John Q. Barrett, Professor at St. John’s University School of Law; Hon. Denny Chin, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Thomas Loftus, Justice Jackson’s Grandson. For more information, go to https://www.aabany.org/events/event_details.asp?legacy=1&id=1231073 |
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May 15 5:30-8:30PM |
AABANY Co-Sponsors: Alice in Chinatown: Chol Soo Lee and His Fight for Freedom |
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Location: Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP 200 Liberty Street New York, New York 10281 |
Led by the Honorable Denny Chin, AABANY’s trial reenactment team will celebrate APA Heritage Month by retelling the story of Chol Soo Lee, a young Korean American who was wrongly accused and imprisoned for a gangland murder in San Francisco’s Chinatown. The effort to free him represented the beginning of Asian American activism in the 1970s. For more information, go to https://www.aabany.org/events/event_details.asp?legacy=1&id=1229620 |
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May 22 4:30-7:30 pm |
AABANY Co-Sponsors “Abacus: Small Enough to Jail” |
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Location: Four Gateway Center 100 Mulberry Street Newark, New Jersey 07102 |
AABANY will join APALA-NJ, McCarter & English and KALAGNY for a networking reception and a screening of the documentary Abacus: Small Enough to Jail, which tells the story of the Chinese immigrant Sung family’s resilience against injustice when their bank was the only one pursued by prosecutors in the wake of the 2008 financial collapse. For more information, go to https://www.aabany.org/events/event_details.asp?legacy=1&id=1229311 |
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May 22 5:30-8 pm |
“Murder of Vincent Chin” Trial Reenactment |
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Location: White & Case LLP 1221 6th Ave New York, New York 10020 |
White & Case presentes a reenactment of “Building Our Legacy: The Murder of Vincent Chin,” one of AABANY’s best known and most performed reenactments. From AABANY’s Trial Reenactments website: “Vincent Chin was beaten to death in 1982 in Detroit. When the assailants didn’t even receive jail time, the injustice galvanized the Asian American community.” For more information, go to https://www.aabany.org/events/event_details.asp?legacy=1&id=1214265 |
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May 29 6:00 pm |
AABANY Co-Sponsors: Breaking Through: A Look Beyond the Bamboo Ceiling |
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Location: Lowenstein Sandler 1251 Avenue of the Americas 17th Floor New York, New York |
Please join the Diversity and Leadership Network and AABANY in celebrating Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month! The DLN will host an informative conversation with guest speakers, including the Honorable Justice Jeffrey K. Oing, Lawson Huynh, Associate at Lowenstein Sandler, Blossom Kan, Assistant General Counsel for MetLife, and Sonia Low, General Counsel of Jacob J. Javits Center, about the challenges and successes of Asians and Pacific Islanders in the legal profession. For more information, go to https://www.aabany.org/events/ |
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May 30 6:00- 8:00 pm |
AABANY Presents: Annual Judicial Reception Hosted by Judiciary Committee |
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Location: The Surrogate’s Courthouse Courtroom 503 31 Chambers St New York, New York |
The Judiciary Committee hosts its Annual Judicial Reception to honor newly inducted, currently sitting and retired Asian American, Pacific Islander and South Asian judges. For more information, go to https://www.aabany.org/events/ |