International Contributions
Internationally, in 2006, Williams co-led a conference on constitutional law and law reform in Nairobi, Kenya, attended by over 125 Kenyan attorneys. Later that year, she was invited by the Chief Justice of Kenya as the first non-Kenyan judge to attend and address the Kenyan Judicial Colloquium, an annual four-day gathering of the Kenyan judiciary on issues such as mediation, case management, and judicial ethics. At the Chief Justice's invitation, Williams returned in 2007 and 2008 to present to the colloquium issues relating to judicial training around the world. During that visit, she also taught at the first Kenyan Women's Trial Advocacy Program for lawyers who represent victims of domestic violence. She returned in August 2008 to lead another women's trial advocacy training program for approximately 50 Kenyan lawyers and law students.
In August 2011, Williams traveled to Mombasa, Kenya, on the invitation of Kenya's new Chief Justice, Willy Mutunga, for the 8th Annual Kenya Judges Colloquium.
In 2007, she led a delegation in Liberia for Lawyers Without Borders, teaching trial advocacy skills to Liberian magistrate judges, prosecutors and defense attorneys. Also in 2007, Williams was invited to and attended meetings in the United States and Canada as one of 28 delegates of the Canada-United States Legal Exchange Program attended by judges and members of the United States Supreme Court, the Supreme Court of Canada and the American College of Trial Lawyers.
In 2002 and 2003, Williams led delegations to Ghana to train members of the Ghanaian judiciary in areas including judicial ethics, case management, and alternative dispute resolution. In 2004, she hosted in the United States a delegation from Ghana, which included the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Ghana and other Ghanaian judges during their three-week study of the United States courts. In 2008 she trained center Ghanaian Judges at the new Judicial Training Center in collaboration with Fordham Law School and other organizations in the creation of the Ghana Judicial Training Center.
For several years, Williams has also served as a member of international training delegations that have traveled to the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha, Tanzania, and the tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) at the Hague. On her multiple trips to the ICTR and ICTY, she has taught trial and appellate advocacy courses to prosecutors of persons accused of serious violations of human rights law committed in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia.
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