U.S. Attorney General Mukasey to Give Leventhal Lecture

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U.S. ATTORNEY GENERAL MICHAEL MUKASEY TO GIVE THE
LEVENTHAL LECTURE AT COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL

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September 24, 2008 (NEW YORK) – U.S. Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey will give the Harold Leventhal Memorial Lecture at Columbia Law School on October 2, 2008.

A graduate of Columbia University and Yale Law School, Mukasey joined Columbia Law School as a lecturer-in-law in 1993 and taught the popular Seminar in Trial Practice each spring until his appointment as U.S. Attorney General last November.

WHAT:    U.S. Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey gives the Harold Leventhal Memorial Lecture

WHERE: Jerome Greene Hall, room 104

WHEN:   Thursday, October 2, 2008, 4 p.m.

This event is open to Columbia Law School students and faculty only.

The Harold Leventhal Memorial Lectureship was established by former law clerks, colleagues and other friends to commemorate Harold Leventhal (1915–1979) who graduated from Columbia Law School in 1936. A dominant influence in the development of federal administrative law, he served as a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Past Leventhal speakers include Professor Paul Freund, Peter Calvocoressi, the Hon. Arthur Goldberg, Professor John Kenneth Galbraith, Philip A. Lacovara ’66, Professor Cass R. Sunstein and, in 2007, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.

Columbia Law School, founded in 1858, stands at the forefront of legal education and of the law in a global society. Columbia Law School joins traditional strengths in international and comparative law, constitutional law, administrative law, business law and human rights law with pioneering work in the areas of intellectual property, digital technology, sexuality and gender, and criminal law.