U.S. Congressman F. James Sensenbrenner of the Fifth Congressional
District of Wisconsin presented a lecture to a full audience of
faculty, students, and legal professionals at the UW Law School on
October 12, 2009.
Sensenbrenner’s presentation, sponsored by the Federalist Law
Student Association at the Law School, focused on the Patriot Act,
which he introduced in the House as a response to the terrorist
acts of September 11, 2001, and three key provisions of which are
due to expire at the end of 2009.
Sensenbrenner responded to a broad range of audience questions
after his talk, dealing with issues including Afghanistan,
antitrust, Guantanamo, energy resources, intellectual property, and
federal judicial appointments.
Sensenbrenner is a graduate of the UW Law School’s Class of 1968.
In the audience at the lecture were several of Congressman’s
classmates, a surprise which delighted the Congressman.
Following the lecture, Sensenbrenner proceeded to a second campus
engagement: a visit to the Newton Tree that he had donated to the
University. The tree is a certified descendant of the original tree
from which the famous apple fell on English scientist Isaac Newton,
leading to Newton’s theory of gravity.
Accompanied by Law School Dean Ken Davis and UW-Madison Chancellor
Carolyn (Biddy) Martin, Sensenbrenner was met at the university’s
Botany Garden by Dr. Mohammad Mehdi Fayyaz, Director of Greenhouses
and the Botanical Garden, and his horticultural technician James
Adams, who presented Sensenbrenner with a clay pot full of apples
from the tree and a Newton Apple Pie baked from the tree’s fruit
by Violet Kral DeWind (mother of Law School Clinical Associate
Professor Pete DeWind).
To download a video of Sensenbrenner's Law School lecture, click
here.
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