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Picturing Our Past Calvert named Eagleton University professor Randall L. Calvert, Ph.D., professor of political science in Arts & Sciences, will be named the Thomas F. Eagleton University Professor of Public Affairs & Political Science, announced Edward S. Macias, Ph.D., executive vice chancellor and dean of Arts & Sciences. Full story More Stories
				Justice conference Oct. 9 to feature Scheck, Becker By Jessica N. Roberts The School of Law's Clinical Education and Trial and Advocacy programs will host the third annual "Access to Equal Justice Conference: Creating Collaborations Between the University and the Community to Improve Access to Justice in Our Region" Oct. 9 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom in Anheuser-Busch Hall. Barry C. Scheck The Criminal Law Society, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Pro Bono Jurists law student groups are assisting with the conference. The goal of the conference is to provide a forum for University faculty and students, lawyers, judges, community leaders and government officials to collaborate on improving access to justice and the delivery of legal services in our region. The conference begins at 9 a.m. with a showing of the documentary First Monday 2002: Civil Liberties in a New America. The film features David Cole, a Georgetown University law professor; Roger Wilkins, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and George Mason University history professor; and Howard Zinn, a historian, playwright and author. Barry C. Scheck, professor of law and director of the Clinical Legal Education & Jacob Burns Center for the Study of Law and Ethics at Yeshiva University's Cardozo School of Law, will speak at 11 a.m. on "Wrongful Convictions: Causes and Remedies." Scheck is co-founder and co-director of the Cardozo Innocence Project and a member of the National Institute of Justice Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence. In addition to the work he has done through the Cardozo Innocence Project, which has represented more than three dozen men exonerated through post-conviction DNA testing, Scheck has represented defendants such as Hedda Nussbaum, O.J. Simpson, Louise Woodward and Abner Louima. Mary E. Becker, professor at DePaul University College of Law, will speak at 2 p.m. on "Law and the Emotions of Battered Women." She is a co-founder of the Illinois Clemency Project for Battered Women and co-author of Cases and Materials on Feminist Jurisprudence: Taking Women Seriously. Mary E. Becker Scheck's and Becker's talks are open to the public. However, registration for the conference is required to obtain materials, attend panels and participate in lunch meetings. Attendance will be limited to the first 150 registrants. There is no fee for registration. To register, e-mail Kate France at kjfrance@wulaw .wustl.edu or call 935-6419; or, to view the complete conference agenda and register, visit law.wustl.edu/whatsnew/ confsandevents/tokarz/ access_conf.html. The conference provides six hours of Mandatory Continuing Legal Education credit, including three hours of ethics hours.

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