October 4, 2001

Contact: Karen Coope, law school, (785) 864-4531.

Justice Scalia, Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter lead KU law school guest list

LAWRENCE -- A Supreme Court Justice, a Pulitzer-prize winning reporter and a former United States Solicitor General are among the featured speakers who are scheduled to lecture at the University of Kansas School of Law during this academic year.

All events will take place in Green Hall on the KU campus and many are open to members of the public.

Justice Antonin Scalia will be visiting Nov. 15 and16 as the Page Jurist in Residence. He will speak to a Constitutional Law Class and will host a series of Question and Answer forums for members of the law school community, including students, faculty and staff, and alumni. He will also attend a reception at the law school honoring the many KU students and graduates who have served as judicial clerks at the state and federal level.

Linda Greenhouse, New York Times Supreme Court correspondent and Pulitzer Prize winner, will present the Judge Nelson Timothy Stephens Lecture on Oct. 17. Greenhouse has covered the Supreme Court for the Times since 1978 and appears regularly on the PBS program Washington Week in Review. Her lecture, entitled "The Supreme Court After Bush v. Gore," will be open to the public.

Former U.S. Solicitor General Seth Waxman will present the Stephenson Lecture in Law and Government during the spring 2002 semester. "Mr. Waxman is a terrific person and an extremely talented lawyer. He has served in several capacities in the Department of Justice as well as having worked in private practice and as a visiting faculty member at Georgetown University Law Center. He will offer a wealth of knowledge and experience to our students," said Law School Dean Stephen McAllister.

The law school has scheduled several other prominent scholars and lawyers to appear at during the fall and spring semesters. The Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy and the Media, Law and Policy Program will sponsor a symposium on "The Media and Government Regulation" on Nov. 8. This symposium will focus on the role of the news media in establishing citizen perceptions of government regulation.

Speakers include Mary Auvin, manager of executive and external communications, 3M; Bruce Finzen, partner, Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Cresi, Minneapolis; Robert Giles, curator, Neiman Foundation for Journalism, Harvard University; Trudy Lieberman, director, Center for Consumer Health Choices, Consumers Union; and John Oslund, business research team leader, Minneapolis Star Tribune.

On Feb. 28, 2002 the Kansas Law Review will sponsor a symposium on Globalization and Sovereignty dealing with the effect that international economic and financial organizations have on sovereignty. Speakers include: Raj Bhala, Patricia Roberts Harris research professor, George Washington University Law School; Daniel Bradlow, professor and director of International Legal Studies, American University Washington College of Law; and Lori Wallach, director, Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch.

Marie-Bernarde Miller, an attorney with Gill Elrod Ragon Owen & Sherman P.A. in Little Rock will present the Linda S. Legg and Judge Lawrence G. Crahan Lecture on Legal Professionalism and Ethics on March 6. Miller is the former deputy attorney general and director of the Arkansas Medicaid Fraud Control Unit, and former special assistant United States attorney for health care fraud cases.

"I am pleased with the array of speakers that we are bringing to the law school this year. It is my hope that our guests will enrich not only the quality of education at the law school but also the academic experience for the entire KU community," said McAllister.