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Rutherford Institute Launches Summer Speaker Series, Welcomes Broad Array of Civil Rights Activists & Leaders
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- Beginning on June 8, 2005, as part of its Summer Internship Program for law students, The Rutherford Institute will launch its 2005 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 property rights and human life concerns to criminal justice reform, religious freedom, and judicial activism.Among the speakers scheduled to appear this summer are: Cal Thomas, nationally syndicated columnist and host of FOX News Channel's "After Hours with Cal Thomas," who will speak about "Faith in the Media Age"; 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 on 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 "USA Patriot Act and Homeland Security"; and Professor Michael Klarman of the University of Virginia School of Law, who will speak on the topic of judicial activism. For a complete schedule and list of speakers, click here.
The Rutherford Institute's Summer Internship Program offers law students the unique opportunity to learn practical legal skills, while developing a critical understanding of constitutional law. The Summer Internship Program, open to qualified law students interested in receiving a grounding in critical areas of law impacting civil liberties and religious freedom, has attracted top students from law 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.
Founded in 1982 by constitutional attorney and author John W. Whitehead, The Rutherford Institute is a civil liberties organization that provides free legal services to people whose constitutional and human rights have been threatened or violated. The Institute has emerged as one of the nation's leading advocates of civil liberties and human rights, litigating in the courts and educating the public on a wide spectrum of issues affecting individual freedom in the United States and around the world.
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