NEW YORK, NY, February 9, 2004—Anthony Lewis, a Pulitzer prize-winning author of numerous columns, articles, and books, will present the 12^th Annual Media Center Lecture at New York Law School on Tuesday, February 10 at 7 p.m. in the Stiefel Reading Room.

In his speech, “Give Me Liberty: Individual Rights in a Time of War,” Lewis will speak on recent legal developments in treatment of citizens and others in the wake of September 11 and the Iraq conflict. Media interested in attending this invitation-only event should contact Jim Hellegaard, Director of Communications in the office of Public Affairs, at 212.431.2191 or jhellegaard@nyls.edu. New York Law School is located 57 Worth Street between West Broadway and Church Street.

Lewis is a former columnist for The New York Times, for which he wrote a column on the op-ed page called “Abroad at Home.” Prior to becoming a columnist he was based in Washington, D.C., covering the Supreme Court, and in London as its bureau chief. From 1948 to 1952 he worked for the Sunday Department of The Times. In 1952 he became a general assignment reporter for the Washington Daily News. In 1955 he won his first Pulitzer Prize for national reporting, for a series of articles on the dismissal of a Navy employee as a security risk. The articles led to the employee’s reinstatement.

Lewis joined the Washington Bureau of The Times in 1955 to cover the Supreme Court, the Justice Department and other legal subjects. From 1956 to 1957 he was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard, studying law. In the following years he reported on, among other things, the Warren Court and the Federal Government's responses to the civil rights movement. He won his second Pulitzer Prize in 1963 for his coverage of the Supreme Court. He is the author of three books: Gideon’s Trumpet, Portrait of a Decade, and Make No Law. He has also published numerous articles in legal journals.

Lewis was born in New York City on March 27, 1927. He attended the Horace Mann School in New York and received his B.A. degree from Harvard College in 1948. Lewis was a Lecturer on Law at the Harvard Law School, teaching a course on The Constitution and the Press for fifteen years. He has taught at a number of other universities as a visitor, among them the Universities of California, Illinois, Oregon and Arizona. Since 1983 he has held the James Madison Visiting Professorship at Columbia University.

ABOUT THE MEDIA CENTER AT NEW YORK LAW SCHOOL
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 twenty-five years ago, the Center sponsors pedagogy, scholarship and projects relating to the intersection between evolving communication and information technologies and the laws that regulate them.  

Contact: Jim Hellegaard, Office of Public Affairs, 212.431.2191, jhellegaard@nyls.edu 

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