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International Section Diversity Policy
The International Section is committed to diversity in
its membership, officers, Executive Committee, Chapters, and
Committees. Diversity is an inclusive concept, encompassing
gender, race, color, ethnic origin, national origin, religion, sexual
orientation, age and disability.
In applying this policy, the International Section
expects that its leaders, including Committee and Chapter Chairs, will
actively seek to achieve diversity in all their activities including in
seeking members for the Executive Committee, other Committees and
Chapters, in selecting speakers for panels and continuing legal
education programs, in soliciting contributions to the Section’s
publications, and in collaborating with other sections and minority and
specialty bar associations to pursue diversity initiatives. The
Section is grateful for and celebrates the geographic and national
origin diversity that its many Chapters outside the United States bring
to the Section and, in addition, seeks to promote diversity within each
of these Chapters.
We endorse the statement of the Association as applied
to our Section that we are a richer and more effective Section because
of diversity, as it increases our Section’s strengths,
capabilities and adaptability. Through increased diversity, our
Section can more effectively address societal and member needs with the
varied perspectives, experiences, knowledge, information and
understanding inherent in a diverse membership.
December 15, 2011
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