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EVENTS ON MONDAY, MARCH 25, 2002
Tuesday, March 26, 2002
TIME: 9 a.m.
EVENT: AMERICAN UNIVERSITY Washington College of Law holds a program on Homophobia in the Halls of Justice: Sexual Orientation Bias and Its Implications Within the Legal System.
AGENDA: Highlights:
9:15 a.m. - Setting the Stage and Learning from the Experience of our Predecessors
Amelia Craig Cramer, deputy county attorney, Pima County, Ariz.
Todd Brower, professor of law, Western State College of Law
Emilio Cividanes, partner, Piper Marbury Rudnick & Wolfe, LLP
Inez Smith Reid, judge, District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Brenda Smith, professor of law, American University
10:45 a.m. - Use and Abuse of Sexual Orientation in Criminal Cases--The Death Penalty and Beyond
Steve Presson, appellate attorney for Wanda Jean Allen
Steven Hawkins, executive director, National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
Abbe Smith, professor of law, Georgetown University Law Center
Pamela Bridgewater, associate professor of law, American University
12 noon - Darren Hutchinson, assistant professor of law, Southern Methodist University
1:30 p.m. - Professional Implications: Canons of Ethics and Codes of Professional Conduct
Jennifer Gerarda Brown, professor of law, Quinnipiac University School of Law
William C. Duncan, acting director, The Marriage Law project, Columbus School of Law, Catholic University
Muneer Ahmad, assistant professor of law, American University
Susan Carle, associate professor of law, American University (Moderator)
DATE: March 26, 2002
LOCATION: 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-885-5950
WEB ADDRESS:au.edu
TIME: 10 a.m.
EVENT: HELSINKI COMMISSION holds a briefing on the possible ramifications should the ongoing Cyprus talks fail.
WHO: The speakers are:
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, CATO Institute
Philip Gordon, Director, Center on the United States and France and Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings Institute
Ian Lesser, Senior Political Scientist, RAND Corporation
Colonel Stephen R. Norton (U.S. Army, Ret.), Senior Policy Advisor, Western Policy Center
DATE: March 26, 2002
LOCATION: 562 Dirksen Senate Office Building, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-225-1901
WEB ADDRESS: csce.gov
Wednesday, March 27, 2002
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring Nobel Laureate Dr. David Baltimore
DATE: March 27, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE holds a program on Does Britain or the United States have the Right Gasoline Tax? With Ian W.H. Parry, Resources for the Future, and Kenneth A. Small, University of California, Irvine.
DATE: March 27, 2002
LOCATION: 1616 P Street, NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-328-5000
WEB ADDRESS: rff.org
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: CHAMBER OF COMMERCE presents New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark.
DATE: March 27, 2002
LOCATION: 1615 H Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-463-5682
WEB ADDRESS: uschamber.com
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: HERITAGE FOUNDATION holds a program on Safeguarding Our Country's Liberties: A Perspective from the Deputy Attorney General of the U.S. Department Of Justice
Larry Thompson U.S. Department of Justice.
DATE: March 27, 2002
LOCATION: 214 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-675-1752
WEB ADDRESS: heritage.org
Thursday, March 28, 2002
TIME: 12:30 p.m.
EVENT: WOMAN'S NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC CLUB holds a program on Can Globalization Work for All?
WHO: The speakers are:
John Cavanaugh has been Director of the Institute for Policy Studies
Prakash Loungani, International Monetary Fund discussing
DATE: March 28, 2002
LOCATION: 1526 New Hampshire Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-232-7363
WEB ADDRESS: democraticwomen.org
TIME: 4 p.m.
EVENT: RADIO FREE EUROPE/RADIO LIBERTY holds an afternoon roundtable entitled The State vs. the Citizen: Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
WHO: The speakers are:
Vitaly Ponomaryov, Director, Central Asia Program, Memorial Human Rights Center
Atanzar Arifov, General Secretary, Erk party (Uzbekistan); fmr political prisoner
Pulat Akhunov, Director, Central Asian Association (Sweden); fmr political prisoner
Abdusalom Ergashev, Head, Ferghana Branch, Independent Human Rights Organization of Uzbekistan
DATE: March 28, 2002
LOCATION: 1201 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-457-6949
WEB ADDRESS:rferl.org
Friday March 29, 2002
TIME: 12 noon
EVENT: AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE holds a program on Seminar Series In Public Finance Does School Choice Harm Public Schools?
DATE: March 29, 2002
LOCATION: 1150 17th Street NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-862-5933
WEB ADDRESS:aei.org
TIME: 1 p.m.
EVENT: NATIONAL PRESS CLUB holds its "Luncheon Newsmaker" news program featuring Two Spokesmen for the Falun Gong Spiritual Practice, Zhang Erping and Gail Rachlin, discussing "Chinese Government Actions Against Falun Gong Practitioners in China and the U.S."
DATE: March 29, 2002
LOCATION: National Press Club, 14th and F Streets NW, Washington, DC
CONTACT: 202-662-7500
WEB ADDRESS: npc.press.org
