‘Conference on
Justice’ Symposium
Scheduled for Friday, May 6,
at Cal State Fullerton
Conference to feature keynote
speaker Erwin Chemerinsky, constitutional law scholar and professor
at Duke University School of Law.
May 5, 2005 :: No. 198
A “Conference on Justice,”
featuring keynote speaker Erwin Chemerinsky, constitutional
law scholar and professor at Duke University School of Law,
will be held Friday, May 6, at Cal State Fullerton.
Chemerinsky, who will discuss “Justice,
Civil Liberties and the War on Terrorism,” argued two
cases before the U.S. Supreme Court last month and was a commentator
during the O.J. Simpson trial. He was named among the “Top
20 Legal Thinkers in America” in a recent Legal Affairs
magazine poll. Chemerinsky will speak at 1 p.m.
Sponsored by Pi Sigma Alpha (the Political
Science Honor Society), the Division of Political Science
and Criminal Justice, Associated Students Inc., and the American
Democracy Project, the conference will be held from 8:30 a.m.-2:30
p.m. at the Ruby Gerontology Center.
Among the topics to be addressed: “The
Philosophy of Justice”; “Justice, Crime and the
Philosophy of Punishment”; “Genes, Food and Justice:
Agricultural Biotechnology, Intellectual Property Law and
U.S. Imperialism”; “Re-Engineering Humans, Revising
Political Alignments”; and “Environmental Justice.”
In addition to Chemerinsky, speakers include
many faculty members at Cal State Fullerton, as well as speakers
from the Natural Resources Defense Council and the New School
for Social Research.
Additional information on this free program
is available from political science professors Raphael Sonenshein
at 657-278-3837 and Phil Gianos at 657-278-4713.
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