The 2016 Alex & Lena Casper Memorial Lecture: Nadi - Cincinnati Event
March 31, 2016 - Middletown
The 2016 Alex & Lena Casper Memorial Lecture: Nadine
Strossen, former President of the
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
Current Challenges to Civil Liberties
Thursday, March 31 at 7 pm
Miami University Middletown's Dave Finkelman Auditorium
Tickets are free but
required. To order tickets, visit http://miamioh.edu/regionals/arts-culture/casper-lecture/order-tickets/index.html.
NADINE STROSSEN has
written, lectured, and practiced extensively in the areas of constitutional
law, civil liberties, and international human rights. From 1991 through 2008
she served as president of the American Civil Liberties Union, the first woman
to head the nation's largest and oldest civil liberties organization. Professor
Strossen is currently a member of the ACLU's National Advisory Council. When
Strossen stepped down as ACLU President in 2008, three Supreme Court Justices
(Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Antonin Scalia, and David Souter) participated in her
farewell/tribute luncheon.
The National Law Journal twice named Strossen one of "The
100 Most Influential Lawyers in America." In 1996, Working Woman Magazine
listed her among the "350 Women Who Changed the World 1976-1996." In 1997,
Upside Magazine included her in the "Elite 100: 100 Executives Leading The
Digital Revolution." In 1998, Vanity Fair included Strossen in "America's 200
Most Influential Women." In 1999, Ladies' Home Journal included her in
"America's 100 Most Important Women." In 2005, Strossen was honored by the
University of Tulsa College of Law and the Tulsa Law Review, which made her
scholarly work the subject of their Fifth Annual Legal Scholarship Symposium,
entitled "Nadine Strossen: Scholar as Activist."
Strossen's awards include the Women of Distinction award
from the Women's League for Conservative Judaism, the Media Institute's Freedom
of Speech Award, the Free Speech Coalition's Freedom Isn't Free Award, the
National Council of Jewish Women's Women Who Dared Award, the Jewish Council
for Public Affairs Albert D. Chernin Award, and the National Forensic League's
Lifetime Achievement Award. Strossen is a member of the Council on Foreign
Relations.
Strossen graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College
(1972) and magna cum laude from Harvard Law School (1975), where she was an
editor of the Harvard Law Review. Before becoming a law professor, she
practiced law for nine years in Minneapolis (her hometown) and New York City.
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