Hon. Douglas H. Ginsburg to Lecture at New York Law School

Contact: Denise Tong, Office of Public Affairs, 212.431.2191, dtong@nyls.edu

MEDIA ADVISORY:

DATE: Thursday, June 22, 2006

EVENT: The Fifteenth Annual Telecommunications Policy Lecture: An Evening With Hon. Douglas H. Ginsburg

TIME: 7 p.m.

DESCRIPTION: Douglas H. Ginsburg is Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, to which he was appointed by President Reagan in 1986. He is also Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Law at George Mason University School of Law, and Visiting Lecturer and Charles J. Merriam Scholar at the University of Chicago Law School.

PRESENTED BY: The Media Center at New York Law School

RSVP: This event is open to the public at no charge, but registration is required. Please visit www.cmcnyls.edu for details and to register.

LOCATION: Wellington Conference Center, New York Law School, 47 Worth Street, New York, N.Y. 10013 (between Church Street and West Broadway)

DIRECTIONS: Via Subway: 1 to Franklin Street; 2, 3, A, C to Chambers Street

CONTACT: Denise Tong, Office of Public Affairs, New York Law School, 212.431.2191 or dtong@nyls.edu

ABOUT THE MEDIA CENTER:

The Media Center is New York Law School’s home for the study of telecommunications, media and new media law and policy. It is one of the nation’s oldest training programs for media lawyers and the only one that offers a digital video lab for the production of visual media relating to justice and the law. Founded in 1977, the Center sponsors pedagogy, scholarship and projects relating to the intersection between evolving communication and information technologies and the laws that regulate them. The Center has three goals: to promote scholarship, to preserve democratic values through effective media policy and to train media-savvy lawyers who understand the law of media and the role of media in the law.

ABOUT NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL:

Founded in 1891, New York Law School is an independent law school located in lower Manhattan near the city’s centers of law, government, and finance. New York Law School’s renowned faculty of prolific scholars has built the school’s strength in such areas as constitutional law, civil and human rights, labor and employment law, media and information law, urban legal studies, international and comparative law, and a number of interdisciplinary fields. The school is noted for its six academic centers: the Justice Action Center, Center for New York City Law, Center for Professional Values and Practice, Center on Business Law & Policy, Institute for Information Law and Policy, and the Center for International Law. New York Law School has more than 13,000 graduates and enrolls some 1500 students in its full- and part-time J.D. programs and its Master of Laws (LL.M.) in Taxation program.