ILEAD lectures discuss The Bill of Rights

Wednesday, June 30
IRA GLASSER
"The History and Importance of the Bill of Rights"

Glasser served as National Executive Editor for the American Civil  Liberties Union (ACLU) and is the co-author of Doing Good: The Limits  of Benevolence and the author of Visions of Liberty: The Bill of Rights for All Americans.

Wednesday, July 7
FRANK SUSMAN
"Privacy Rights, Abortion and Roe v. Wade"

Susman is among the country's most prominent legal counsels in the field of abortion rights, serving on the appellate counsel for over 115 appeals, including six before the U.S. Supreme Court.

Wednesday, July 14
ROBERT DONIN
"Equal Protection and Affirmative Action"

Donin serves as Dartmouth's General Council and previously spent 16 years at Harvard University. In 2003, Donin helped file a friend of  the court brief with seven other universities in two cases challenging the University of Michigan's undergraduate and law school admissions  systems.

Wednesday, July 21
JOAN BERTIN
"Freedom of Speech and Assembly"

Bertin is Executive Director of the National Coalition Against Censorship and has taught at Columbia University and held the Joanne Wodward Chair in Public Policy at Sarah Lawrence College.

Wednesday, July 28
STEPHAN ROHDE
"The Establishment Clause: Separation of Church and State"

Rohde is a nationally recognized constitutional lawyer, lecturer and writer, and is President of the Beverly Hills Bar Association. His most recent book is American Words of Freedom.

Wednesday, Aug. 4
CLAIRE EBEL AND MARK HOWARD
"Due Process and the Patriot Act"

Ebel and Howard will debate the U.S. Patriot Act. Ebel has been Executive Director of the New Hampshire chapter of the ACLU for the last 22 years. Howard is the Assistant United States Attorney in the Criminal Division of the United States Attorney's Office for the District of New Hampshire.

Wednesday, Aug. 11
LYLE DENNISTON
"The Bill of Rights under the Rehnquist Court"

Denniston has spent the last 45 years covering the U.S. Supreme Court as a journalist. He has reported for the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Star, the Baltimore Sun and the Boston Globe. He is the author of The Reporter and the Law: Techniques of Covering the Courts.