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MEDIA CONTACT: Pat Vaughan Tremmel
at (847) 491-4892 or at p-tremmel@northwestern.edu
October
30, 2001
Mikva to Address Public Interest
Week
CHICAGO --- Abner Mikva, former
White House counsel, congressman and chief judge
of the U.S. Court of Appeals of the District
of Columbia, will deliver the keynote address
for Northwestern University School of Law’s
9th Annual Public Interest Law Week.
Open to the public, the week,
from Nov. 5-8, will take place at the School
of Law, 357 E. Chicago Ave.
Guest speakers from the Chicago
legal community will introduce students and
legal professionals to the opportunities and
challenges of public service through seven panels
on topics such as hate crimes in the wake of
Sept. 11, public interest careers and marginalized
groups in the law.
The panel discussions are titled
"Hate Crimes in the Wake of the September
11 Terrorist Attacks" (3:00 p.m. Nov. 5);
"Doing Good While Doing Well" (11:45
a.m. Nov. 6); "Ms. Treatment: The Status
of Women in the Law" (3:00 p.m. Nov. 6);
"Legal Aspects of Reparations" (11:45
a.m. Nov. 7); "Finding and Funding a Job
in the Public Interest" (3:00 p.m. Nov.
7); "Marginalized Groups within the Law"
(11:45 a.m. Nov.8); and "Representing a
Death Row Inmate" (3:00 p.m. Nov. 8).
Speakers include Roslyn C. Lieb,
executive director, Public Interest Law Initiative;
Lawrence C. Marshall, professor of law and director,
Center on Wrongful Convictions, Northwestern
University School of Law; Betsy Shuman-Moore,
director of the Project to Combat Bias Violence,
Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights;
Clyde Murphy, executive director, Chicago Lawyers’
Committee for Civil Rights; Dorothy Roberts,
professor of law, Northwestern University School
of Law; Luis Vera, litigation director, AIDS
Legal Council of Chicago; Neera Walsh, supervisor,
Cook County States Attorney’s Office of
Community Prosecutions.
The week’s activities will
end with a silent auction and reception to benefit
the Student Funded Public Interest Fellowships
(SFPIF) at 6:00 p.m. Nov. 8. SFPIF, a non-profit
organization run entirely by Northwestern University
School of Law students, is dedicated to funding
law students working in unpaid positions at
public interest organizations during the summer.
In 2001, 10 grants and a total of $50,000 were
awarded to students working at agencies such
as the Anti-Defamation League, U.S. Attorney’s
Office, Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and
Earth Rights International.
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