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Lane Lecture
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When: Feb. 2, 4 p.m.
Where: Creighton University Mike and Josie Harper Center, Ahmanson Ballroom (4th floor)
Title: “What’s Law Got to Do With It? The Work and Roles of Lawyers of the Conservative Movement” by Ann Southworth
About the speaker: Ann Southworth is a professor of law and member of the founding faculty at the University of California, Irvine School of Law. Her scholarship focuses on the legal profession, especially lawyers who serve causes -- their norms, professional identities, practices, organizations, and networks. She participated in designing, and is currently teaching, UCI Law School’s new first-year course, The Legal Profession. Before joining the UC Irvine faculty, she was a professor at Case Western Reserve University Law School, and during the 2004-2005 academic year, she was Visiting Professor of Law and Covington & Burling Distinguished Visitor at Harvard Law School. Prior to entering academia, her employment experience included clerking for Judge Stanley A. Weigel (N.D. Cal.), and working at Morrison & Foerster, the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and the Appellate Section of the Civil Division, U.S. Department of Justice. She has served on the editorial advisory board of the Law & Society Review and on the editorial board of Law & Social Inquiry. The University of Chicago Press recently published her book on advocates for conservative and libertarian causes, Lawyers of the Right: Professionalizing the Conservative Coalition.
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Koley Lecture
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When: Feb. 24, 4 p.m.
Where: Creighton University Mike and Josie Harper Center, Ahmanson Ballroom (4th floor)
Title: “Changes in Supreme Court Reporting in Recent Years and What it Means at the Court” by Dahlia Lithwick
About the speaker: Dahlia Lithwick is a senior editor at Slate, and in that capacity, writes the "Supreme Court Dispatches" and "Jurisprudence" columns. She is a biweekly columnist for Newsweek. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, Harper’s, The Washington Post, and Commentary, among other places. She received the Online News Association’s award for online commentary in 2001 and again in 2005, for a series she co-authored on torture, and was the first online journalist invited to serve on the Steering Committee for the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. She is the co-author of Me v. Everybody: Absurd Contracts for an Absurd World, a legal humor book, and I Will Sing Life: Voices from the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, a book about seven children from Paul Newman's camp with life-threatening illnesses. She lives in Charlottesville, Va., with her husband and two sons. |
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