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Public Service Calendar
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Wednesday, January 8:
Public Interest Law Speaker Series & Martin Luther King, Jr.
Commemorative Speaker: “The Value of Diversity: What the Legal
Profession Must Do to Stay Ahead of the Curve” by Hon. Dennis
Archer, President-elect, ABA; Chairman, Dickinson Wright, PLLC; Former
Associate Justice, Michigan Supreme Court; Former Mayor, City of
Detroit; 11:00, Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom.
Saturday, January 18: School-Wide Volunteer Activity: St. Louis
Area Foodbank; 9:00 am -12, (Location TBA).
Saturday, January 18: Harris Institute for Global Legal
Studies/American Red Cross International Humanitarian Law Volunteer
Teacher Training; 8:30-12:30, Room 306.
Wednesday, January 29: Public Interest Law Speaker Series: “Where
Have You Gone, Perry Mason?” by Scott Turow, Partner, Sonnenschein,
Nath & Rosenthal; Author, works including One L, Presumed
Innocent, and The Burden of Proof, with panelists Michael Kahn,
Partner, Blackwell, Sanders, Peper Martin LLP; Adjunct Prof.,
Entertainment Law, Washington University; Author, works including The
Canaan Legacy (Grave Designs), Death Benefits, and Firm Ambitions
& Marion Wesson, Prof. of Law & Wolf-Nichol Fellow, University
of Colorado; NPR Weekend Edition Sunday Legal Correspondent; Author,
Render Up the Body and Suggestion of Death; 11:00, Bryan Cave Moot
Courtroom.
Saturday, February 8: School-Wide Volunteer Activity: Special
Olympics; (Time TBA).
Wednesday, February 12: Public Interest Law Speaker Series: “Rectifying
the Tit: Equality Lessons from Religion, Disability, Sexual
Orientation, and Transgender” by Chai Feldblum, Prof. &
Director, Federal Legislation Clinic, Georgetown University Law
Center; assisted in drafting the Americans with Disabilities Act;
11:00 am, Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom.
Wednesday, February 19: “Social Change, Judicial Activism,
& the Public Interest Lawyer” by Hon. Thelton Henderson, Sr.
Judge, US District Court, Northern District of California; Former
Attorney, Civil Rights Division, US Dept. of Justice; Former Directing
Attorney, East Bayshore Neighborhood Legal Center ; 11:00 am, Bryan
Cave Moot Courtroom; Public Interest Law Speaker Series.
Friday, February 21: Government & Public Interest Job Fair;
Janite Lee Reading Room
March: School-Wide Volunteer Activity: Forest ReLeaf; (Date
& Time TBA).
March 1—8: BAIL Alternative Spring Break trip; (Last year
BAIL raised money to fly to Los Angeles to volunteer for Break the
Cycle, a nonprofit organization that educates teenagers about domestic
violence.)
Wednesday, March 14: Public Interest Speaker Series &
Keynote Speaker, Washington University School of Law Clinical
Education Program & Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
Conference: “Access to Justice: Ethical Responsibilities &
Practical Realities” by Deborah Rhode, Ernest W. McFarland Prof. of
Law, Stanford University; Director, Keck Center on Legal Ethics &
the Legal Profession; Chair, ABA Commission on Women & the
Profession; 2:00 pm., Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom.
Friday, March 21: Women’s Law Caucus Spring Auction; 5:00 pm,
W.L. Hadley Student Commons.
Wednesday, March 26: Public Interest Speaker Series: “Colonies,
Culture, & Capitalism: The Social Responsibilities of Lawyers in a
Neo-liberal Age” by Angela Harris, Prof. of Law, University of
California-Berkeley; Former Rockefeller Fellow in Legal Humanities,
Stanford University; 11:00 am., Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom.
Tuesday, April 1: Public Service Law Celebration, 5:00 pm,
Janite Lee Reading Room
