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Public Affairs Discussion Group
"The Up and the Downside of Running for
Congress"
March 30, 2007
Crawford Hall, Room 9 - The Inamori Center
12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
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Lewis R. Katz, J.D. - John C.
Hutchins Professor; Director of the Master of Laws
in U.S. and Global Legal Studies program at Case
Western Reserve University
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Dear Colleagues:
At various times the Department of Political
Science, MSASS, and the School of Law have had
former or current legislators teaching on their
faculties. But, last year, one of our colleagues
tried to move the other way: from the Law School to
Congress.
Lew Katz, who is John C. Hutchins Professor of Law
and a noted expert in Criminal Procedure (please, no
jokes about the appropriateness of that background
for his quest) won the Democratic party nomination
and challenged Steve LaTourette in the 14th
District. He didn't win, which means he can join us
at the Friday Public Affairs Lunch Discussion on
March 30 to discuss the upsides and downsides of the
experience. We will meet in Crawford Hall, Room 9
(within the Inamori Center, one level down from the
SAGES Cafe) from 12:30 ―
1:30 p.m.. Please join us for what should be a fun
discussion.
Best regards,
Joe White
More About Our
Guest
A specialist in criminal law whose
primary interest is the Fourth Amendment, Mr. Katz
was called an "expert in criminal law" by the New
York Times. His books and articles have been cited
in more than 400 cases and legal articles by
numerous courts including the United States Supreme
Court. He is the author of The Justice Imperative
(1980), Know Your Rights (1993), and Ohio Arrest
Search and Seizure (2005), and co-author of six
other books: Justice Is the Crime (1972), New York
Suppression Manual (1992), Ohio Felony Sentencing
Law (2004), Ohio Criminal Justice (2005), Questions
& Answers: Criminal Procedures (2003), and Baldwin's
Ohio Practice: Criminal Law (2003). A longtime
member of our faculty (since 1966), he teaches both
Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure and directs the
Graduate Program for Foreign Students in U.S. Legal
Studies.
Spring Semester
Schedule
Beginning on February 2, the Friday Lunch will
move back to Crawford Hall, in ROOM 9. Room 9 is within
the Inamori Center, on the basement level of Crawford.
It is very kind of Bill Deal, Director of the Inamori
Center, to make this room available on a regular basis.
Thank you, Bill!
Room 9 seats 35, with a central table and also chairs
along the wall. It should be a better setup than
Guilford. If we expect a large crowd, we may be able to
open a partition and join up with Room 11.
There will, however, be a class in the room until 12:20.
Therefore it will not be possible to get there much
before the lunch begins. On the other hand, people who
are a bit early should be able to hang out in the
Tomlinson food court. I believe the underground passage
from Tomlinson to Crawford will be restored when
construction is finished.
Coffee will be provided from the SAGES Cafe'. Which
should mean very good coffee.
The tentative schedule of speakers, so far:
January 26: Phil (Perkins Professor of
Physics-Case Western Reserve University) and Sarah
Taylor, Wind Power and All of It's Aspects -
Environmental, Energy, Economic, Aesthetic, and
Maybe More.
February 2: Ken Grundy, Marcus Hanna Professor
Emeritus of Political Science, on subject to be
determined
February 9: Paul Schroeder, Visiting Lecturer in
Political Science and from Families of the Fallen for
Change, on what to do in Iraq
February 16: Mark Turner, Professor of Cognitive
Science, on cognition and politics
February 23: Mel Goldstein, Professor of
Anthropology, on why the Chinese are winning in Tibet
March 2: Susan Helper, Professor of Economics, on
strategies for American workers within the current
global competition.
March 9: Baiju Shah, President, Bioenterprise
Corporation, on the new economic prospects in Cleveland.
March 16: Break
March 23: Mike Aronoff of Cuyahoga County on the
evaluation of sexual predators for the courts―are they
really dangerous, and can we predict if they will reoffend?
March 30: Lewis R. Katz,
John C. Hutchins Professor; Director of the Master
of Laws in U.S. and Global Legal Studies program at Case
Western Reserve University,
on the Ups and Downs of Running for
Congress.
April 6:
Horst von Recum, Assistant Professor of Biomedical
Engineering; Insoo Hyun, Assistant Professor of
Bioethics; and Greg Eastwood, Interim President of Case
Western Reserve University on Stem Cell Research.
April 13: Marixa Lasso, Assistant Professor of
History: Drugs, War, and Coffee in Colombia
April 20: Mark Joseph, Assistant Professor,
Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences: Mixed-Income
Development as an Approach to Addressing Urban Poverty
April 27: Christine Cano, Associate Professor of
French, on the French elections (this date falls between
the first round and the runoff election)
Parking: For
those people who seek to make special arrangements about
parking, the contact person now will be Fay Alexander.
Her phone number is 368-4440, and her e-mail is
fabrienne.alexander@case.edu.
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