Law Offices of Justine Durrell
RELATED EXPERIENCE AND INTERESTS
RockRose Institute will hold it’s annual fundraiser on Feb 15, 2011 in San Francisco
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Women’s Eggs: Exceptional Endings is the title of Ms. Durrell’s most recent article on the medical, ethical and legal implications of women’s egg donations for assisted reproductive technology and stem cell research. The article was published by Hastings Women’s Law Journal in January 2011 and is part of a book upon which Ms. Durrell is currently working regarding biotechnology torts and the law. (View an Excerpt)
In December 2009, Ms. Durrell joined the Advisory Board of the Alliance for
Humane Biotechnology. This organization is an alliance of scholars, students,
activists and others addressing the social implications of biotechnological developments. Areas of interest include reproductive and genetic technologies, human egg harvesting, cloning research, human-animal hybrid research and synthetic biotechnology.
RockRose Institute is a non-profit organization whose mission is to advance non-violent conflict resolution through education, improved communication and a deeper understanding of justice. Justine Durrell in collaboration with three other women attorneys founded the organization in 2004.
On February 1-3, 2007, RockRose Institute organized the production of Facing Violence: Justice, Religion & Conflict Resolution World Forum 2007. The event was a tremendous success offering its 500 participants a dynamic, interactive experience over a three-day period. Speakers included former Secretary of State - Madeleine Albright, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate - Elie Wiesel, United Nations Special Advisor to the Secretary General - Juan Mendez, and many others. For more information and an update on events at RockRose please visit the website at www.rockroseinstitute.org.
Ms. Durrell, in collaboration with her RockRose Institute colleagues, Maja Ramsey, Rebecca Westerfield and Dana Curtis, was a Seminar Speaker at the Professional BusinessWomen of California’s San Francisco Conference on May 6, 2009. The four women led a successful interactive session for several hundred participants on the topic “From Conflict to Connection.” Their article by the same title was also accepted for publication in the Spring 2009 issue of PBWC’s Connections magazine ( http://www.pbwcconnections.com/ ).
A Practice In Intentional Integrity was offered from 2000 to 2003. The workshops taught hundreds of people communication skills for maintaining integrity in conflict. It was organized and taught collaboratively by the four women lawyers who later went on to form RockRose Institute. The four women, Justine Durrell, Maja Ramsey, Dana Curtis and the Hon. Rebecca Westerfield (Ret.), were all informed by their study of Angeles Arrien’s cross-cultural wisdom teaching, and their professional mediation and litigation experience.
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