The 2016 Alex & Lena Casper Memorial Lecture: Nadine Strossen, Current Challenge

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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.