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LAWRENCE -- The University of Kansas School of Law will welcome Bill Colby, author of a book about the landmark right-to-die case of Nancy Cruzan, and PBS' national legal affairs reporter Jan Crawford Greenburg at two separate events this month in Lawrence.
Colby, a Kansas City, Mo. attorney and the author of "Long Goodbye: The Deaths of Nancy Cruzan" will do a reading and book signing at 12:30 p.m. Oct. 31 in Room 104, Green Hall, 1535 W. 15th St. on the Lawrence campus.
Colby, a fellow at the Midwest Bioethics Center in Kansas City and a former visiting professor at the KU law school, represented the family of Nancy Cruzan in the only "right-to-die" case ever heard by the U. S. Supreme Court. Injured in a car accident, Cruzan was in a coma for five years in a Missouri state hospital before her family asked that her feeding tube be disconnected. The state refused and a legal battle ensued.
Colby has given presentations nationally on the constitutional and moral issues surrounding the right-to-die. He has appeared on Good Morning America, CBS This Morning, Today Show, the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour and other national programs.
Greenburg, the national legal affairs correspondent for the Chicago Tribune and the Supreme Court analyst for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer on PBS will visit the KU law school on Oct. 22. In addition to speaking with law students, faculty and alumni, she will give a public presentation and answer questions at 3:30 p.m. in Room 106, Green Hall.
Contact Jennifer Winkler at (785) 864-4531 for more information.
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