theme of Law School reunions
The Yale Law School Alumni Reunion, which this year focuses on the theme “21st
Century Democracy: Elections, Media, Politics,” will take place Friday-Sunday,
Oct. 12-14.
The weekend will feature panel discusssions, which are free and open to the public,
as well as a slate of events designed specifically for alumni, including luncheons,
tours, a discussion with Dean Harold Hongju Koh and the presentation of the Yale
Law School Alumni Award of Merit to Linda Greenhouse ’78 M.S.L., Supreme
Court correspondent for The New York Times.
The panel discussions on Friday and Saturday are designed to provide a fresh
opportunity, as the 2008 presidential election approaches, to understand how
21st-century democracy grapples with such issues as race, elections, the growing
gap between rich and poor, and the uses of new media.
All the discussions will take place at the Law School, 127 Wall St. On Friday,
there will be two panels: “The Next Generation of Law and Media,”at
2:30 p.m. and “The New Separation of Powers: Parties, Politics, and the
Presidency” at 4 p.m. Both will take place in Levinson Auditorium. On Saturday,
there will be two concurrent sessions at 9:30 a.m.: “The New Tools: The
Internet Influencing Democracy” in Levinson Auditorium, and “Race,
Politics and the Voting Rights Act” in Rm. 127. These will be followed
at 11 a.m. with two more concurrent panels: “The Media Covering Elections:
Heroes or Villains?” in Levinson Auditorium and “Money and Politics” in
Rm. 127.
The panelists will include Charlie Savage ’03 M.S.L., national legal affairs
correspondent for The Boston Globe and a 2007 Pulitzer Prize winner; Jeff Berman ’96
J.D., general manager for video and senior vice president for public affairs
at MySpace.com; Nina Perales, Southwest regional counsel for the Mexican American
Legal Defense and Educational Fund; Jeff Greenfield ’67 J.D., senior political
correspondent for CBS News; Jill Abramson, managing editor of The New York Times;
and Myron H. Thompson ’72 J.D., U.S. district court judge for the Middle
District of Alabama.
For a complete list of speakers and reunion weekend events, visit www.law.yale.edu/news/5457.htm.
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