ILR School Milton Konvitz Memorial Lecture to be delivered by Sandra Day O’Connor
September 24 2007
Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice's talk on Oct. 23 is open to the public
The ILR School announces that retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is the distinguished speaker for the 2007 Milton Konvitz Memorial Lecture.
O'Connor will talk about "The Importance of an Independent Judiciary" on Tuesday, October 23, from 4:30-5:30pm in Bailey Hall on the Cornell University campus. The lecture is free and open to the public (tickets are not required).
Harry Katz, dean of the ILR School, says that it's "fitting that Justice O'Connor will deliver this year's lecture as she, like Milton Konvitz, has been a major contributor to legal discourse while also having a critical impact on public policy."
The Konvitz lecture honors the life and career of the late Milton R. Konvitz, one of the ILR School's founding faculty members who also served as a professor in the Cornell Law School. A leading authority on constitutional and labor law, and civil and human rights, Konvitz's work has been cited in many Supreme Court decisions, and Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg considered him a mentor. At Cornell University, he also founded the Department of Near Eastern Studies and Program of Jewish Studies.
O'Connor will be at Cornell University on October 21-23 as the Law School's Distinguished Jurist in Residence. She served as the first female Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1981-2006. Prior to joining the Supreme Court, she was a politician and jurist in Arizona, having served as state senator and state senate majority leader.
The inaugural Milton Konvitz Memorial Lecture was held in 2006. The lecture series is supported by the generosity of Irwin Jacobs '54 (BEE '56) and Joan Jacobs (BS HE '56). For more information on the lecture, please contact Janice Guthrie, ILR School, Alumni Affairs Director, jmg6@cornell.edu, 607-255-6511.
Founded more than 60 years ago as the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, the ILR School today focuses on advancing the world of work through teaching, research and outreach.
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