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SPEAKERS SET FOR IU SCHOOL OF LAW-INDIANAPOLIS LECTURE SERIES; NATIONALLY HONORED LEGAL ADVOCATE FOR THE POOR TO SPEAK NOVEMBER 8

INDIANAPOLIS - Speakers for upcoming lectures at IU School of Law-Indianapolis include a nationally honored advocate for legal fairness and justice for the poor and people of color.

Bryan Stevenson, executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama in Montgomery, Ala., will present "Confronting Injustice: Race, Poverty and the Death Penalty" at 7:45 p.m., Thursday, Nov. 8 in the Wynne Courtroom of Lawrence W. Inlow Hall, located on the IUPUI campus at 530 W. New York St.

Stevenson is assistant professor of law at the New York University School of Law. His representation of poor people and death row prisoners has won him national recognition. He and his staff have been successful in overturning dozens of capital murder cases and death sentences when poor people have been unconstitutionally convicted or sentenced.

The Harvard Law School and Harvard School of Government graduate is the recipient of numerous honors, including the Thurgood Marshall Medal for Justice, the ABA Wisdom Award for Public Service, the ACLU National Medal of Liberty, the Reebok Human Rights Award, and the MacArthur Foundation Fellowship Award Prize.

Stevenson's speech is part of the law school's Distinguished Visitors lecture series. A reception preceding the lecture will be held at 7 p.m. in the Conour Atrium of Inlow Hall, the new law school building.

Other upcoming visiting lecturers include E. Thomas Sullivan, an authority on antitrust law and complex litigation, Utah Supreme Court Justice Christine M. Durham, and U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. With the exception of O'Connor's speech, all lectures will begin at 7:45 p.m. in the Wynne courtroom.

O'Connor will present the Inaugural James P. White Lecture on Legal Education on Tuesday, April 2, 2002, at 8 p.m.

Sullivan, dean of the University of Minnesota Law School, will discuss "The Future of Antitrust Law After Microsoft" on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2002. Justice Durham will lecture on "The History and Contemporary Content of Constitutional Mandates for Public Education: Obligations of the Third Branch" on March 21, 2002.

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