Professor David Kairys '68 and Patricia Williams to speak about "Philadelphia Freedom: Memoir of a Civil Rights Lawyer"
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Wednesday, November 11, 2009 06:00 PM EST
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Jerome Greene Hall, Room 101
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Wednesday, November 11th
6 - 7:30 PM
Talk, Jerome Greene Hall, Room 101
Reception and Book Signing to follow in Drapkin Lounge
Wondering how to use a CLS law degree for a creative and fulfilling life in the law? David Kairys' '68 talk, with comments by Prof. Patricia Williams, and his book provide an example. A CLS graduate (where he founded the Human Rights Law Review), David Kairys was part of teams that won the leading race discrimination case against the FBI, successfully challenged unrepresentative juries around the country, stopped police sweeps of minority neighborhoods in Philadelphia, and represented Dr. Benjamin Spock in a free speech case before the Supreme Court. In 1971 he co-founded a small civil rights law firm. In 1996 he conceived the lawsuits brought by over 40 cities against handgun manufacturers, and his public-nuisance theory has become a major basis for a range of challenges to corporate practices that endanger public health or safety. Currently Professor of Law at Beasley School of Law, Temple University, and the author of several books, he also is a great storyteller. After the talks, Professor Kairys will sell and sign his book at a reception in Drapkin Lounge.
Presented by Social Justice Initiatives and cosponsored by the Columbia American Constitution Society, Columbia Human Rights Law Review and the National Lawyers Guild at Columbia.
Click to view event poster: http://www.law.columbia.edu/center_program/public_interest/event_calendar/Kairys
Questions: socialjustice@law.columbia.edu
