The Rauh Lecture Series

16th Annual Joseph L. Rauh, Jr. Lecture

Vernon Jordan

Monday, April 14, 2008
6:00 p.m. Program
7:00 p.m. Reception

University of the District of Columbia
Window Lounge, Building 38, Second Floor
4200 Connecticut Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20008

R.S.V.P. 202-274-7349 or Jlibertelli@udc.edu

Vernon Jordan and Dean Shelley Broderick

Vernon Jordan, attorney and advisor to numerous presidents, will deliver the 16th Annual Joseph Rauh, Jr. Lecture. Above, he is pictured with UDC-DCSL Dean Shelley Broderick after providing a stirring Keynote Address at the School of Law's Convocation in 2007.

Metro Red Line: Van Ness/UDC - Wheelchair Accessible - Parking under campus off Van Ness St.

About Joseph L. Rauh, Jr.

Joe Rauh may not have invented public interest law, but he certainly perfected it. For more than half a century, Joe championed the under-dog, the disenfranchised, and all minorities. His widely-known battles for civil rights, civil liberties, and equal access to justice are the essence of public interest law.

Less well known was Joe's vision of a wholly new approach to legal education tied to the practice of public interest law. Joe believed law students should "learn by doing," not just by reading cases. To Joe, this meant not only expanded clinical education within conventional law schools, but much more.

Joe envisioned a law school that would function as a training ground for public interest lawyers: a school where law students could learn basic skills and represent the underrepresented at the same time, a school that made dedication to public service a criterion for admission, and commitment to public service a life-long responsibility. The University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law is Joe's dream come true. A founding member of the Law School's Board of Governors, Joe remained one of its staunchest supporters until his last hours with us.

Past Joseph L. Rauh, Jr. Lecturers

2007	Nina Totenberg interviewed by Wade Henderson
2006	Theodore M. Shaw
2005	Congressman Barney Frank
2004	Congressman John Lewis on Civil Rights and Educational Equality
2003	Marian Wright Edelman on "It's Time to Leave No Child Behind"
2002	Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton, Ralph Neas and Wade Henderson on "Civil Rights in the 21st Century"
2001	Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Read the transcript of Justice Ginsburg's speech
2000	Charles Ruff
1999	The Sleep Room (an award-winning film about Joe Rauh's last case)
1998	Jack Greenberg
1997	Elaine Jones
1996	Father Robert Drinan
1995	Rick Seymour
1994	Judith Lichtman & Roger Wilkins
1993	William Taylor

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg