Archive for October, 2005
Religious Faith and Death Penalty @ Duke
Date: 10/31/2005
Title: Religious Faith and Death Penalty in America (1:03:40)
Speaker(s): Timothy Floyd
Location: Duke
Presentation type: Streaming video (Real Player)
The Christian Legal Society is hosting Timothy Floyd, author and Visiting Professor at the Georgia State University College of Law. He will be discussng the death penalty and its relation to religious beliefs.
October 31, 2005
Miers Nomination @ Duke
Date: 10/26/2005
Title: Cronyism and the Future of the Supreme Court: The Nomination of Harriet Miers
Speakers: Michael Gerhardt, Neil Siegel, William Marshall
Location: Duke
Presentation type: Streaming video (Real Player)
October 26, 2005
Canadian Sup. Ct. Justice Rosalie Abella @ Yale
Date: 10/11/2005
Title: A Justice Journey: Developing a Culture of Rights (1:35:20)
Speaker: Harold Koh, Hon. Rosalie Abella
Location: Yale Law School
Presentation type: Streaming video (Real Player)
From the announcement:
Canadian Supreme Court Justice Rosalie Silberman Abella will give the Robert P. Anderson Memorial Fellowship Lecture, “A Justice Journey: Developing a Culture of Rights,” on Monday, October 11, 2004, at 4:30 p.m., in Room 127. The talk is free and open to the public.
Justice Abella has served on the bench for over thirty years and was appointed to the Supreme Court of Canada in August 2004.
After graduating from the University of Toronto Law School in 1970, she practiced civil and criminal litigation until, at the age of 29, she was appointed to the Ontario Family Court in 1976, making her Canada’s youngest (and first pregnant) person to be appointed to the Bench. She chaired the Ontario Labor Relations Board, the Ontario Law Reform Commission, and the Study on Access to Legal Services by the Disabled. She was appointed to the Ontario Court of Appeal in 1992 and raised to the Supreme Court of Canada on August 30, 2004.
She was sole Commissioner and author of the 1984 federal Royal Commission on Equality in Employment, in which she created the term and concept of “employment equity”, a new strategy for reducing barriers in employment faced by women, aboriginal people, non-whites, and persons with disabilities. The theories of “equality” and “discrimination” she developed in her Report were adopted by the Supreme Court of Canada in its first decision dealing with equality rights under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The Report has been implemented by the governments of Canada, New Zealand, Northern Ireland and South Africa.
She has written over 70 articles and written or co-edited 4 books on a variety of legal topics. She lectures extensively in Canada and internationally. Justice Abella is a specially elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada and a Senior Fellow at Massey College. She has 20 honorary degrees, and is the only woman to receive the Distinguished Alumnus Award from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law. Justice Abella was awarded the 2003 International Justice Prize of the Peter Grube Foundation and the 2004 Walter S. Tarnopolsky Award for Human Rights by the Canadian Bar Association and the International Commission of Jurists, and was selected as the 2004-2005 Robert Anderson Fellow at Yale Law School.
Justice Abella was born on July 1, 1946 in a Displaced Persons Camp in Germany and came to Canada as a refugee in 1950. She is married to Canadian history professor Iving Abella and they have two sons, Jacob and Zachary, both lawyers.
October 11, 2005
Jamestown project @ Yale
Date: 10/6/2005
Title: While Democracy Sleeps (2:08:36)
Speaker: Harold Koh, Cornel West, Julie Su, Eddie Glaude, Clarissa Martinez De Castro, Ronald Sullivan
Location: Yale Law School
Presentation type: Streaming video (.mov)
From the announcement in the Yale Daily News:
A panel titled “While Democracy Sleeps” on Thursday, Oct. 6, will mark the unveiling of the Jamestown Project at the Law School.
The event will bring together a diverse group of American leaders to explore a variety of issues — from why democracy matters to what it entails, where the nation has “gone wrong” and ways to achieve change.
The speakers will be Cornel West, professor of religion and of African American studies, Princeton University; Julie Su, director of litigation, Asian Pacific American Legal Center; Eddie Glaude, director of Princeton’s Program in African American Studies and a Jamestown Project Fellow; Clarissa Martinez De Castro, director of state and local public policy for the National Council of La Raza; and Ronald Sullivan, professor of law at Yale and Jamestown Project Fellow, who will moderate the panel.
The panel will take place at 10 a.m. in the Law School, 127 Wall St. It is free and open to the public.
The Jamestown Project is a group of men and women from different races, regions, occupations and backgrounds — all of whom are in their 30s and 40s — working to support the practice of democratic citizenship. The organization aims to “revitalize the life of democracy in the United States” through innovative scholarship, political and legislative action, and new policy approaches.
The project is headed by Stephanie Robinson, an attorney with experience in public policy. She previously worked as chief counsel and national director for public policy at the Center for Community Change and, prior to that, as majority chief counsel for Senator Edward M. Kennedy on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee.
October 6, 2005
From the archives: Greenawalt @ Illinois
Date: 10/5/2005
Title: Objections in Conscience to Medical Procedures: Does Religion Make a Difference?
Speaker: R. Kent Greenawalt
Location: University of Illinois
Presentation type: Streaming video (Real Player)
October 5, 2005
