2000-2001 Public Interest Law Speakers Series
Daniel L. Greenberg
President and Attorney-in-Chief, The Legal Aid Society of New York; Former Director of Clinical Programs, Harvard University Law School; Past President, New York City Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild
- “Clients, Curiosity, and Commitment: a Career in Public Interest Law” – Wednesday, September 6, 2000
Sarah Weddington
Successfully argued Roe v. Wade before the United States Supreme court; Founding Member, The Foundation for Women’s Resources; Author, A Question of Choice
- “Law: The Wind Beneath My Wings” – Tuesday, September 19, 2000
Charles J. Ogletree, Jr.
Jesse Climenko Professor of Law and Director of the Criminal Justice Institute, Harvard University Law School; Legal commentator for PBS, NBC, C-SPAN; Legal Counsel to Professor Anita Hill; Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Washington University
- “Racial Justice in the New Millennium: Following in Judge Higginbotham’s Footsteps” – Thursday, October 5, 2000
Asha Ramgobin
Director of the Law Clinic, University of Natal, South Africa; President, Association of Legal Aid Organizations of South Africa; Co-Founder and Trustee, Association of University Legal Aid Institutions of South Africa Trust
- “The Challenges Facing Public Interest Lawyers in Post-Apartheid South Africa” – Friday, October 6, 2000
Jean Koh Peters
Clinical Professor of Law, Yale Law School; Author, Representing Children in Child Protective Proceedings: Ethical and Practical Dimensions; Former Staff Attorney, The Legal Aid Society of New York; represents children and parents in neglect proceedings and refugees in asylum cases
- “Habit, Story, and Delight: Essential Tools of the Public Service Advocate” – Wednesday, November 8, 2000
Honorable Patricia M. Wald
Judge, International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia; Former Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit; Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Tyrrell Williams Lecturer, Washington University School of Law
- “The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia Comes of Age: New Law and Old Rights” – Friday, November 17, 2000
Harlon Dalton
Professor of Law, Yale Law School; Author, Racial Healing: Confronting the Fear Between Blacks and Whites; Board of Directors, American Civil Liberties Union; Former Assistant to the Solicitor General; Former Member, National Commission on AIDS
- “Racial Healing” – Wednesday, January 17, 2001
Thomas P. Sullivan
Co-chair, Illinois Governor’s Commission on Capital Punishment; Partner, Jenner & block; Former U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois; 46 years of civil and criminal litigation experience
- “The Death Penalty Process: Is It Fixable?” – Wednesday, February 21, 2001
Amartya Sen
1998 Nobel Laureate in Economic Science; Master of Trinity College, Cambridge University; Professor, Harvard University’ leading scholar on the cases and consequences of poverty
- “Norms, Law, and Poverty” – Saturday, March 31, 2001
Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court; Founder, Women’s Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union; Member, Council on Foreign Relations; Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Jurist-in-Residence, Washington University School of Law
- “A Conversation with Justice Ginsburg” – Wednesday, April 4, 2001
