Upcoming Events
ACLU: ENGAGENovember 17, 2012
Time and Place TBD Join the ACLU of Illinois for an exciting look at some of the most important human rights issues facing us today. For more information be sure to check their website. NLG Legal Observer TrainingApril 12, 2012
Room F @ 12:15-1:30pm On April 12th the ACLU of Illinois is providing free legal observer training to all law students interested in volunteering at the upcoming Chicago NATO Summit in late May. Legal observers will attend rallies during the Summit and record any violations of free speech or mistreatment of protestors which they witness. The training session will be held at the University of Chicago Law School from 12:15 to 1:30. Lunch will be provided. Screening of "Inherit the Wind"
Time and Place TBD
Join the UChicago Law ACLU for a screening of Inherit the Wind, based on the Jerome Lawrence play dramatizing the 1925 Scopes "Monkey" trial. Dealing with the threat posed to intellectual freedom by Tennessee's prohibition against the teaching of evolution, the play also features as its main protagonist the character based on attorney Clarence Darrow, who in real life lived just off the Midway. |