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Film: Deadline USA
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Humphrey Bogart portrays an editor struggling to maintain his newspaper's integrity while fulfilling its civic duties without yielding to official pressures. Ethel Barrymore, Ed Begley, and Jim Backus also star. Part of the National Affairs Series

The Legal and Social Crisis of Capital Punishment - Henry Schwarzschild
8:00 PM – Gallery, Memorial Union - Henry Schwarzschild currently serves as the director of the Capitol Punishment Project of the American Civil Liberties Union. The project seeks to prevent all executions and to abolish the death penalty in the United States. Born in Germany, Schwarzchild immigrated to the US in 1939 and received his education from the City College of New York and Columbia University. He participated in the first desegregation sit-ins in the 1960's and the Freedom Rides in 1961 and worked closely with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and other leaders of the Civil Rights Movement. Part of the National Affairs Series: The Bill of Rights - Taking Liberties?

In Defense of Life - Doug Brown
3:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Doug Brown has been associated with WOI AM/FM radio for seventeen years and currently serves as that station's senior producer. He has been involved in broadcasting since he was 16 years old, and was active in professional theater in Chicago and Memphis before joining WOI's "The Book Club." Tapes of his program are sent to the Commission for the Blind, enabling them to be distributed to the blind in the Iowa community. Mr. Brown received his education at Knox College in Illinois and at the University of Iowa. Part of the National Affairs Series: The Bill of Rights - Taking Liberties?

Religion and law Under Reagan - Leo Pfeffer
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Leo Pfeffer is at present a professor of Constitutional Law at Long Island University and a special counsel to the American Jewish Congress. As an accomplished practitioner of law, professor Pfeffer has lost only one of the twelve cases he has argued before the Supreme Court. As an expert in the area of religious civil rights, Dr. Pfeffer has published widely. He is also a highly acclaimed lecturer, whose list of university lectures stretches from Amherst to Yeshiva. Part of the National Affairs Series: The Bill of Rights - Taking Liberties?

Role of State Appellate Courts in the Burger Court Era - Raymond Dall'Osto
3:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Raymond Dall' Osto is a practicing attorney in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. he was chief counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union in Wisconsin from early 1978 until late 1980 and was actively engaged in the litigation of civil rights cases. The second edition of Mr. Dall' Osto's book, Practical Guide to Civil Rights Litigation in Federal and Wisconsin Courts, will be published in Spring 1981. He has spoken extensively and written numerous articles on civil rights law. Part of the National Affairs Series: The Bill of Rights - Taking Liberties?

The Future of Freedom: An Explanation of Future Threats to Freedom in America - Ramsey Clark
8:00 PM – Fisher Theater - Ramsey Clark is renowned as a legal expert and a civil rights crusader. he served as Attorney General of the United States for two years under Lyndon Johnson after holding several other positions in the Justice Department. He has worked on projects ranging from desegregation and housing discrimination to death penalty abolishment proposals and prosecution of police brutality cases. He co-authored the book Crime in America: The Role of the Supreme Court. Currently, he works as a teacher and private law practitioner. Ramsey Clark made headlines on June 2, 1980 when he traveled to Tehran, Iran against the wishes of the U.S. government, in order to examine the hostage crisis and talk with Iranian officials about human rights considerations. Part of the National Affairs Series: The Bill of Rights - Taking Liberties?

Film: Anatomy of a Murder
12:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - In this brilliant 1959 courtroom drama, lawyer James Stewart seeks acquital on a technicality for Ben Gazzara who is accused of murdering the man who raped his wife. Lee Remick and George C. Scott are also featured. joseph Welch, who gained fame for standing up to Joseph McCarthy, plays the judge. Otto Preminger directed. Part of the National Affairs Series

The First Amendment: An Endangered Species Under the Burger Court - Nat Hentoff
8:00 PM – Sun Room, Memorial Union - Nathan Hentoff, staff writer for The New Yorker and columnist for The Village Voice, is a member of the steering committee of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. Hentoff graduated with honors from Northeastern University, did post-graduate work at Harvard university, and served as a Fulbright Fellow in Paris. He serves on the faculty at the new School of social Research as Adjutant Associate Professor at New York University. The author of sixteen books and co-author of State Secrets: Police Surveillance in America. Hentoff is also a contributing editor to The Nation, Playboy, Inquiry and Cosmopolitan. Part of the National Affairs Series: Freedom of Speech.

The Media, The Law, The Courts - Joseph C. Keefe
3:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Judge Keefe tried the first televised trial in Iowa, the Moses murder trial, in Waterloo in the Spring of 1980. He graduated from the University of Iowa Law School in 1952, and was appointed district court judge in 1965. He is past president, Iowa Judges Association: past editor, Iowa Bench News; and past member of the national Faculty of American Academy of Judicial Education, Washington, DC, and is chairman of the Iowa Supreme Court Benchbook Committee. Part of the National Affairs Series: The Bill of Rights - Taking Liberties?

The Rights of the Accused - Roxanne Conlin
3:00 PM – Pioneer Room, Memorial Union - Roxanne Conlin is currently the United States Attorney for the Southern District of Iowa. Previous to this, she was Assistant Attorney General for the State of Iowa. Ms. Conlin is a graduate of the Drake University College of Law, and is a member of the ACLU, NAACP, and Common Cause. She has been a guest lecturer at Washington University, University of Wisconsin, and many other colleges and universities. She has recently written several articles dealing with women and the law. Part of the National Affairs Series: The Bill of Rights - Taking Liberties?