Author: Ken Duenke

Business, Law & Economics March Tip Sheet

James W. Ellis, the National Law Journal‘s 2002 Lawyer of the Year, will deliver the keynote address during the School of Law’s fourth annual Access to Equal Justice conference, “Mental Health and the Law,” March 19 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom of Anheuser-Busch Hall.

Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid Al-Hussein of Jordan will deliver a lecture on “The International Criminal Court: Future Challenges,” on March 18 at noon in Anheuser-Busch Hall, Room 309. Al-Hussein is the permanent representative of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan to the United Nations and president of the Assembly of States Parties for the International Criminal Court.

The former HUD Secretary and founder of a private organization to help the homeless will look at America through social workers’ eyes and offer hope for the socially marginalized.

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Herma Hill Kay, the Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Professor of Law and former dean at the University of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall), will deliver a lecture on “Celebrating Early Women Law Professors” 9 a.m. March 4 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom in Anheuser-Busch Hall. The lecture will follow the Women’s Law Caucus’ fifth annual International Women’s Day Celebration at 8 a.m. in the Janite Lee Reading Room, honoring Kay, Washington University School of Law alumnae who graduated 50 or more years ago, and the law school’s first three tenured women professors, Susan Appleton, Kathleen Brickey, and Karen Tokarz.

Conservative political analyst, lawyer and best selling author Ann Coulter contends that America’s media landscape is strewn with examples of media abuse, liberal manipulation and Democratic conspiracies against Republicans.

The John M. Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis announces a new workshop series to support university and community entrepreneurs. The workshop series is part of the 2004 Olin Cup Entrepreneurship Competition. The goal of the competition is to support people interested in starting new business ventures. Fifty workshops are planned for the year ahead. The workshop series debuts this month with discussions on “Idea/Opportunity Evaluation.”

This feature will be included in each 2003-04 issue of the Record in observance of Washington University’s 150th anniversary.

This feature will be included in each 2003-04 issue of the Record in observance of Washignton University’s 150th anniversary.