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FORMER CLINTON SPECIAL COUNSEL CHRISTOPHER EDLEY TO SPEAK AT LAW AND HUMANITIES CONFERENCE AT WILLIAM PATERSON UNIVERSITY Christopher Edley Jr., Esq., former special counsel to President Clinton and director of the White House review of affirmative action, will give the keynote address during a two-day conference on law and the humanities at William Paterson University in Wayne on Friday, September 24, and Saturday, September 25. Leading scholars from throughout the northeast who are seeking to integrate the core constructs of the study of law and the humanities are expected to gather at the University for the event, titled "Law and Humanities: Justice and Equality." Coordinated by William Paterson University professors Robert Bing, accounting and law, and Susan Radner, English, the conference will offer a comprehensive examination of some of the most pressing issues facing society, including affirmative action, international human rights, and equity in the classroom. Edley's keynote address, "Not All Black and White: Affirmative Action, Race, and American Values," will be presented during Friday evening's dinner in the Student Center Ballroom, which begins at 6:30 p.m. A professor of law at Harvard University Law School, Edley is the author of a 1996 book of the same title which grew out of his work for President Clinton. He has served in a consulting capacity as senior advisor to President Clinton for the Race Initiative, and as a consultant to the President's Advisory Board on Racial Reconciliation. A member of the Harvard Law School faculty since 1981, Edley is founding co-director of The Civil Rights Project, a recently launched think-tank based at Harvard. Other noted speakers include Jon-Christian Suggs, coordinator of justice studies and professor of English at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, who will lead Friday's opening plenary session, "'In the Name of That Which is Just': The Humanities and the Normative Study of Justice." Saturday's plenary session, titled "Teachers and Learners: Writing from Prisons," will feature Hettie Jones, author, memoirist and award-winning poet; Bell Gale Chevigny, professor emeritus, SUNY-Purchase and author of "Doing Time: 25 Years of Prison Writing," and Benay Rubenstein, academic coordinator of the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility and producer of the film, "The Last Graduation." Registration for the two-day event is $120 for adults, $50 for students and retirees. The cost to attend either Friday's or Saturday's session is $75 for adults, $25 for students/retirees. Registration for Friday evening's dinner, featuring Edley's keynote address, is $25. For additional information or to register,
please call the Office of the Provost, William Paterson University,
973-720-2580.
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