On The Front Lines
Rutherford Institute Launches Summer Speaker Series, Welcomes Broad Array of Civil Rights Activists & Leaders
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- Beginning on Wednesday, June 7, as part of its Summer Internship Program for law students, The Rutherford Institute will launch its 2006 Summer Speaker Series, which aims to engage law students, lawyers, civil liberties activists and community members in stimulating discussions with leaders from a cross-section of cultural, philosophical and legal backgrounds. This year, The Rutherford Institute is pleased to welcome a broad array of speakers on issues ranging from immigration issues and civil liberties post-9/11 to criminal justice reform, religious freedom, and judicial activism.
Among the speakers scheduled to appear this summer are: nationally syndicated columnist Cal Thomas, who will speak about "Truth and the Media"; Bruce Fein, the associate deputy attorney general under President Ronald Reagan, who will speak on "The Bush Administration and Civil Liberties"; Pedro Moreno, special assistant to the Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Health and Human Services Department, who will speak on "Immigration Issues"; Robert O'Neil, president of The Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression, who will speak on "The Free Exercise of Religion"; Jay Branegan, a former Time correspondent and a senior professional staff member for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for the U.S. Congress, who will speak about "Congress and Capitol Hill Issues"; Joseph Onek, Director of The Constitution Project's Liberty and Security Initiative, who will speak about the "USA Patriot Act and Homeland Security"; and Professor Nelson Lund of George Mason University's School of Law, who will speak on "The Second Amendment: The Right to Keep and Bear Arms."
The Rutherford Institute's Summer Internship Program offers law students and qualified undergraduates the unique opportunity to learn practical legal skills while developing a critical understanding of constitutional law. The Summer Internship Program, open to qualified students interested in receiving a grounding in critical areas of law impacting civil liberties and religious freedom, has attracted top students from schools across the country and abroad. Former interns now serve in nationally recognized law firms, as clerks for federal and state judges and in leadership roles with various civil liberties groups.
