Wednesday, September 3: Public Interest Law Speakers Series: “Multiculturalism, Reparations and the Politics of Memory” by Gerald Early, Merle Kling Professor of Modern Letters in Arts & Sciences, Washington University in St. Louis; Director, International Writing Center, Washington University in St. Louis; 11:00 am, Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom.

Saturday, September 6: School-Wide Volunteer Activity with Habitat for Humanity; 8 am.

Wednesday, September 10: Public Interest Law Speaker Series: “The Foundations of the Principle of Academic Freedom” by Lee Bollinger, President & Professor of Law, Columbia University; Former President and Law School Dean, University of Michigan; Respondent, Grutter v. Bollinger; 11 am, Graham Chapel.

Monday, September 15: Student Public Service Fair; 11 am —1 pm; W. L. Hadley Student Commons.

Tuesday, September 16: Food for Thought: Talk of the Town; 6-7:30 pm, Room 305.

Saturday, September 20: Red Cross/Harris Institute International Humanitarian Law Program teacher training; 8:30 am—12 pm, Room 305.

October (Date & Time TBA): School-Wide Volunteer Activity with Beyond Housing.

Tuesday, October 7: Food for Thought: Taste of the Town; Time, Place (TBA).

Tuesday, November 11: School of Law Blood Drive with the Community Blood Center of St. Louis.

Thursday, November 13: Public Interest Speaker Series co-sponsored by the Harris Institute and Department of Political Science in Arts & Sciences): “How Exporting Free Markets & Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred & Global Instability” by Amy Chua, Professor of Law, Yale University; Member, Executive Council, American Society of International Law; 12 pm, Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom.

Sunday, November 23: School-Wide Volunteer Activity with the Ronald McDonald House Family Dinner Program; Time (TBA).

Wednesday, January 21: Public Interest Speaker Series & Black Law Students Association Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemorative Speaker: “From Brown to Grutter: The legal struggle for racial equality” by Theodore M. Shaw, Associate Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund, Inc.; Former Trial Attorney, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice; Co-author, briefs for defendant-intervenors in Grutter v. Bollinger & Gratz v. Bollinger; 11 am, Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom.

Saturday, January 26: School-Wide Volunteer Activity with St. Louis Area Food Bank; 9 am—12 pm.

Wednesday, January 28: Public Interest Law Speaker Series & Webster Society Annual Speaker: “Issues of Justice Relating to American Indian Tribal Government” by Susan M. Williams, Shareholder, Williams & Works PA; Enrolled Member Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota Nation; 11 am, Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom.

February (Date & Time TBA): School-Wide Volunteer Activity with Special Olympics.

Tuesday, February 3: Food for Thought: Talk of the Town Part II; 6-7:30 pm, Place (TBA).

Tuesday, February 17: Food for Thought: Taste of the Town Part II; Time & Place (TBA).

Wednesday, February 18: Tyrell Williams Speaker & Public Interest Law Speaker Series: “A Conversation with Judge Edwards” by the Hon. Harry T. Edwards, Circuit Judge & Chief Judge Emeritus, U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit; Former Professor of Law, University of Michigan and Harvard University; Member, School of Law National Council, Washington University in St. Louis; 4 pm, Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom.

Thursday, February 26: Public Interest Law Speaker Series: “After Brown: Surprising Legacies of the Civil Rights Landmark” by Martha Minow, William Henry Bloomberg Professor of Law, Harvard University; Consultant, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees; Former Member, Independent International Commission on Kosovo; 3 pm, Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom.

Friday, February 27: Government & Public Interest Job Fair; 12-3 pm; Janite Lee Reading Room

March (Date & Time TBA): School-Wide Volunteer Activity.

Tuesday, March 2: School of Law Blood Drive with the Community Blood Center of St. Louis.

Thursday, March 4: Public Interest Law Speaker Series & Women’s Law Caucus International Women’s Day Speaker: “Celebrating Early Women Law Professors” by Herma Hill Kay, Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Professor of Law & Former Law Dean, University of California-Berkeley; Past President, AALS; 9 am, Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom.

March 6—13: L-SPAN Alternative Spring Break. (This year plans are being made to fly to Los Angeles to volunteer at a variety of service organization.)

Friday, March 19: Public Interest Law Speaker Series & Keynote Speaker, Washington University School of Law Clinical Education & Center for Interdisciplinary Studies Conference: “Mental Disability & the Death Penalty: The Implications of Atkins” by James T. Ellis, Professor of Law, University of New Mexico; Recipient, 2002 Lawyer of the Year, National Law Journal & ABA Hearne Award for Disability Advocacy; Argued Atkins v. Virginia; 9 am Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom.

Tuesday, March 30: Public Service Law Celebration; 5-7 pm, Janite Lee Reading Room.