Newdow

Date: 2/26/2003
Title: 9th Circuit Pledge of Allegiance Case (56:02)
Speaker: Michael Newdow
Location: Duke
Presentation type: Streaming video (Real Player)

Lecture by Michael Newdow, of the Ninth Circuit Pledge of Allegiance case.

From the archives: Martha Barnett @ Yale

Date: 2/25/2003
Title: Preiskel-Sliverman Lecture: Terrorism, Technology and the Changing Reality of Personal Property (1:09:24)
Speaker: Martha Barnett
Location: Yale Law School
Presentation type: Streaming video (Real Player)

From the announcement:

Martha Barnett, a partner at the law firm of Holland & Knight LLP and former president of the American Bar Association, will consider the current state of the right to privacy in the Unites States when she delivers the 2002-2003 Preiskel-Silverman Lecture on February 25, 2003. Her talk is titled “Terrorism, Technology, and the Changing Reality of Personal Privacy” and will be held in Room 127 at Yale Law School at 4:30 p.m. The talk is free and open to the public.

“In our country there has long been a tension between an individual’s right to privacy and what society, whether it’s government or others, knows about that person,” says Martha Barnett. Some of this tension has been codified in law, such as the constitutionally mandated regulations of search and seizure, or the laws governing the information in public records.

Barnett will use developments in these areas over the last two decades to consider the current state of privacy law, which she sees as challenged by two factors, technology and terrorism. Her talk will consider “the impact that technology, in and of itself, has on concepts of personal privacy and public information and then, as a layer over that, of the enhanced tension that comes from this war on terrorism that we are currently involved in.”

“I hope to give some examples that will make people think about some of the issues in a way they probably haven’t thought about them before,” says Barnett. Indeed, the conclusion Barnett reaches from her consideration of the evidence is that new thinking is required: “My thesis, frankly, is that there isn’t any such thing anymore [as a right to privacy], and that we need to look at a new paradigm as to how to protect privacy as we move into this technological, global age.”

Martha W. Barnett is a partner in the law firm of Holland & Knight LLP and serves on its Directors’ Committee. Her primary areas of practice are administrative and governmental law, public policy, and state and local taxation. She was the president of the American Bar Association in 2000-2001.

The Preiskel-Silverman Lecture is sponsored by the Robert H. Preiskel and Leon Silverman Program on the Practicing Lawyer and the Public Interest, a fund established by the law firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson in honor of Robert H. Preiskel, LL.B. 1948, and Leon Silverman, LL.B. 1948, to sponsor lectures and other events celebrating private lawyers’ contributions to the public interest.

From the archives: Kieffer and Moore Investiture @ Illinois

Date: 2/25/2003
Title: Charles R. Walgreen Chairs Investiture Ceremony (48:44)
Speaker(s): Susan Werner Kieffer and Michael S. Moore
Location: University of Illinois
Presentation type(s): Streaming video (Real Player)

A combined investiture for Charles R. Walgreen Chairs Susan Werner Kieffer, of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and Michael S. Moore at the College of Law

Halperin @ Illinois

Date: 2/24/2003
Title: Employer Based Retirement Plans: The Ideal, The Possible, and The Reality
Speaker: Daniel Halperin
Location: University of Illinois
Presentation type(s): Streaming video (Real Player)

From the archives: Chemerinsky @ Illinois (Baum lecture)

Date: 2/17/2003
Title: In Defense of Judicial Review: The Perils of Popular Constitutionalism (23:58)
Speaker: Erwin Chemerinsky
Location: University of Illinois
Presentation type(s): Streaming video (Real Player)

Mel Sachs Shares Insights on Sports Law Practice

Date: 2/15/2003
Title: The Rules of the Game: Mel Sachs Shares Insights on Sports Law Practice
Speaker(s): Mel Sachs
Location: Brooklyn Law School
Presentation type:

From the announcement:

In February The Brooklyn Entertainment Law Society welcomed Mel Sachs to the Law School. Mr. Sachs, a distinguished graduate of BLS Class of ‘71, is a prominent trial lawyer with a concentration in sports law. He has represented many high-profile sports clients including The New York Yankees and most recently Yankees star pitcher David Wells. Sachs discussed specific considerations and strategies he employs when representing a professional athlete in civil or criminal litigation.

From the archives: Mary Robinson @ Wilson School

Date: 2/6/2003
Title: From Rhetoric to Reality: Human Rights and Globalization (1:27:09)
Speaker: Mary Robinson
Location: Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University
Presentation type: Streaming video (Real Player)

From the announcement:

Robinson served as head of the U.N. human rights program from 1997 to 2002. She gave priority to implementing the reform proposal of Secretary-General Kofi Annan to integrate human rights concerns in all activities of the United Nations.
Robinson came to the United Nations after a seven-year tenure as president of Ireland. She was the first head of the state to visit Rwanda in the aftermath of the 1994 genocide there. She also was the first head of the state to visit Somalia following the crisis in 1992, receiving the CARE Humanitarian Award in recognition of her efforts for that country. Before being elected president in 1990, she served as senator for 20 years. She also was a member of the International Commission of Jurists (1987-90) and of the Advisory Commission of Inter-Rights (1984-90).