The Justice Speaks Lunch Series, formerly the LEL Labor Lunches, brings local and national figures to the Law School to engage students to consider the law's role as a force and tool in society.

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The Justice Speaks Lunches for the Spring 2008 semester were:

• The Effect of “Sanctuary Cities” on Immigration Policy
  Thursday, January 31, 2008
  Udi Ofer, Advocacy Director, New York Civil Liberties Union
  Matilde Roman, General Counsel, Mayor’s Office of Immigration Affairs
  Moderated by: Associate Dean Lenni Benson
   
• The FCC’s power to limit freedom of speech within media
  Wednesday, February 27, 2008
  Robert Corn-Revere, Partner, Davis Wright Tremaine
  Moderated by: Professor Nadine Strossen, President, ACLU 
   
• The Bronx Defenders: A Holistic Approach to Defense
  Wednesday, April 9, 2008 at 12:50 in room A700
  Robin Steinberg, Executive Director, Bronx Defenders
  Moderated by: Professor Mariana Hogan, Director, Externship Program 

For the Fall 2007 semester:

• Framing the Debate
  Wednesday, November 7, 2007
  Srinu Sonti, Member of Chris Dodd's Campaign Organization
   
  
• Family Responsibility Discrimination
  Tuesday, October 16, 2007
  Professor Joan Williams, Distinguished Professor of Law at UC Hastings School of Law
  Mary Still, Institute for the Social Sciences at Cornell University
   
  
• Forced Treatment and Persons with Mental Disability
  Monday, September 10, 2007
  Dennis Bruce Feld, State of New York Mental Hygiene Legal Service
  Deborah Dorfman, Director of Legal Advocacy, Washington Protection & Advocacy System
   
  

• Back to Basics: Labor Unions & Immigrants
  Wednesday, March 21, 2007
  Kevin Finnegan, Levy Ratner
  Brent Garren, UNITE HERE
   
  
• New Orleans Post-Katrina: Rebuilding Criminal Defense
  Thursday, February 15, 2007
  Leonard Noisette, Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem
  Stephen Singer, Loyola Law School
  David Utter, Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana
   
  

• Women's Rights are Civil Rights: The Supreme Court & Choice
  Tuesday, November 14, 2006
  Marcia Greenberger, National Women's Law Center
  Priscilla Smith, Center for Reproductive Rights
   
• The Mid-Term Elections: Vindication! But for Whom?
  Tuesday, October 10, 2006
  Dick Brennan, FOX 5 News
  Marcia Kramer, WCBS New York
  Lis Wiehl, FOX News Channel
   
• It's Not Politics as Usual in the New York City Council
  Tuesday, September 19, 2006
  Council Member David Weprin, New York City Council