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Nov. 7, 2000

Head of ACLU to Analyze Impact of Election Results on Civil Liberties

Today, American voters are electing a new president, Congress and state government officials.

On Wednesday, Nadine Strossen, president of the American Civil Liberties Union, will come to NC State University to discuss what it all means -- what the impact of the vote will be -- for civil liberties.

Strossen will present her talk, "Civil Liberties in the Wake of the Election," at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 8, at the Witherspoon Student Center auditorium. The event, which is the 2000 NC State University Harrelson Lecture, is free and open to the public. A reception will follow.

Media coverage is invited.

The Harrelson Lecture series, which is sponsored by the NC State Provost's Office, began in 1961 under the provisions of the will of the late Chancellor John W. Harrelson, and is NC State’s distinguished university lecture series.

Strossen, professor of law at New York Law School, has written, lectured and practiced extensively in the areas of constitutional law, civil liberties and international human rights. In 1991, she was elected president of the ACLU, becoming the first woman to head the nation's largest and oldest civil liberties organization. She comments frequently on legal issues in the national media, and writes monthly columns for the online publications Intellectual Capital and The Position.

Her book, Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights (Scribner 1995), was named by The New York Times a "notable book" of 1995. The National Law Journal has twice named her one of "The 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America." She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1975, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. Before becoming a law professor, she practiced law for nine years in Minneapolis and New York City.

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