FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Nadine Strossen, president of the American Civil Liberties Union from 1991 through October 2008, will speak at noon Thursday, Nov. 13, in the E.J. Ball Courtroom of the Leflar Law Center on the University of Arkansas campus.

Her talk, “A Conversation with Nadine Strossen about Civil Liberties Issues in the Post-Bush Era,” will be interactive and audience-engaged, with an emphasis on discussing the future of civil liberties as the nation and world undergo an enormous transformation with the change of administration in the midst of world financial and climate crises.

Strossen, a 1975 Harvard Law graduate, is the first woman to head the nation’s oldest and largest civil liberties organization. She has twice been named by the National Law Journal as one of the 100 most influential lawyers in America. Among her 250-plus publications is her 1995 book Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and Women’s Rights. She made her professional theater debut in 2001 as the guest star in Eve Ensler’s award-winning play, The Vagina Monologues, at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C.

Strossen’s presentation is sponsored by the Hartman Hotz Lectures in Law and Liberal Arts and by the law student public interest organization Equal Justice Works, with assistance from the Law School Young Democrats. Pizza will be available, so come early.

For more information about the event, contact Rob Leflar at the law school, 479-575-2709, rbleflar@uark.edu. For more information about Strossen and the ACLU, go to http://www.aclu.org/about/staff/13278res20020211.html.