The Institute for
Legal Studies announces the following event open to students, faculty
and staff
Hilldale Lecture by Erwin
Chemerinsky
“Civil Liberties and the War on
Terror – Past, Present,
and Future”
Friday, September 19, 2008 at Noon
Memorial Union Play Circle Theater
Hosted by Howard Erlanger, Director, Institute for Legal Studies
The presentation will begin shortly after
12:00.
Refreshments will be served at a reception immediately following the
lecture in the theater lobby.
Abstract: September 11, 2008 will mark the
seventh anniversary of
the war on terrorism. It is gone on longer than the Civil War, World
War I, or World War II. It is an occasion for examining the balance
struck between civil liberties and national security and what the
presidential election is likely to mean for this. Sadly, one of the
worst aspects of American history has repeated itself: there have
been substantial losses of liberty, but not in a way that has made the
country any safer.
Erwin Chemerinsky is the Dean and Distinguished
Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine School of
Law. He assumed this position on July 1, 2008 after four years as the
Alston & Bird Professor of Law and Political Science at Duke
University. Prior to that he spent 21 years as a professor at the
University of Southern California Law School, where he was the Sydney
M. Irmas Professor of Public Interest Law, Legal Ethics, and Political
Science. He is the author of six books and over 100 law review
articles. He frequently argues appellate cases, including in the
United States Supreme Court.
For more information: please see Dean Chemerinsky's website at
http://www.law.uci.edu/profile_e_chemerinsky.html
Submitted by Deb Cutler on September 9, 2008
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