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Steve Shapiro Interview with International Focus
to Air on PBS
Sunday, February 26, 2006
Attorney Shapiro will discuss the topic of "Human Rights In
An Age of Terror". The show will air on Channel (36)
in Milwaukee, Sunday, February 26, 2006 at 5:00 p.m. Check
your local listings for more information.
Rob Ricigliano, Director of the Institute of World Affairs at UW-Milwaukee,
moderates the show.
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Steven
R. Shapiro
Legal Director of the ACLU
Visits Milwaukee
February 6-7, 2006
Visit
to include 7:00pm lecture
Tuesday,
February 7, 2006 at UWM
Sponsored
by Institute of World Affairs,
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and ACLU of Wisconsin
For more information
and to register click here.
Shapiro
is also scheduled to appear on
Monday February
6, 2006
3:00
p.m. with Ben Merens as Host
Listen
to the Broadcast!
Great
Decisions - Torture & the War on Terror
The controversial practice of rendition and revelations of detainee
abuse have prompted the American Civil Liberties Union to file ground-breaking
lawsuits against top U.S. government officials. A senior ACLU representative
will explain the legal basis of these suits and their implications
for human rights domestically and abroad.
Steven R. Shapiro
Legal Director of the American Civil
Liberties Union Steven R. Shapiro is the Legal Director of
the American Civil Liberties Union, the nation's oldest and
largest civil liberties organization. He directs a staff
of approximately 70 full-time lawyers who maintain a large
and active docket of civil liberties cases around the country.
Those cases cover a broad range of issues, including: free
speech, racial justice, religious freedom, due process, privacy,
reproductive and women's rights, immigrant's rights, gay
rights, voting rights, prisoner's rights, and the death penalty.
Shapiro has been the ACLU's Legal Director since 1993, and
served as Associate Legal Director from 1987-1993. During
that time, he has appeared as counsel or co-counsel on more
than 200 ACLU briefs submitted to the United States Supreme
Court. Shapiro is also an adjunct professor of constitutional
law at Columbia Law School, and a frequent speaker and writer
on civil liberties issues.
After graduating from Harvard Law School and spending one
year as law clerk to Judge J. Edward Lumbard of the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, Shapiro joined the
New York Civil Liberties Union in 1976. He is a member of
the Board of Directors of Human Rights First and the Policy
Committee of Human Rights Watch, as well as the Advisory
Committees of the U.S. Program and Asia Program of Human
Rights Watch.
http://www.aclu.org/
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