Yale Law School Dean Gordon Silverstein to Discuss Law's Allure and Politics at Rutgers' Evangelides Lecture
| WHAT: | “Law’s Allure – How Law Kills Politics,” the Alice and Stephen Evangelides Lecture and Forum presented by the Department of Political Science, Rutgers’ School of Arts and Sciences. The lecture is free and open to the public. Seating is limited and on a first-come, first-served basis. |
| WHO: | Gordon Silverstein, assistant dean of graduate programs at Yale Law School, who in 2012 was named chair-elect of the American Political Science Association’s Organized Section on Law and Courts. The section includes scholars and practitioners who study every aspect of law and courts – from jurisprudence to judicial behavior – and comprises law faculty, political scientists, sociologists and economists, among others. Milton Heumann, professor of political science, will host. |
| WHEN: | Thursday, Feb. 28 at 8 p.m. |
| WHERE: | Wood Lawn, 191 Ryders Lane on Rutgers’ Douglass Campus in New Brunswick |
| BACKGROUND: |
Silverstein has been instrumental in guiding the projected September 2013 launch of Yale Law School’s Ph.D. program, the country’s first doctoral program in law. Prior to joining Yale, he was a member of the political science faculty at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of two books and a wide range of book chapters and articles on American and comparative constitutional law and the separation of powers. The Evangelides lectureship honors the late Alice Sofis Evangelides, Rutgers’ first employee counsel, who had a strong interest in public law, and her late husband. |
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