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For Immediate Release
January 22, 2003

Noted Legal Scholar Balances National Security Against Individual Freedom in Lawrence University Convocation

APPLETON, WIS. -- Ground-breaking legal scholar and best-selling author Susan Estrich discusses the challenge of dealing with threats to national security without undermining individual liberties Thursday, Jan. 30 in a Lawrence University convocation.

Estrich presents "Civil Liberties in the Times of Terror: The Balance Between Security and Freedom" at 11:10 a.m. in the Lawrence Memorial Chapel. She also will conduct a question-and-answer session at 2 p.m. in Riverview Lounge of the Lawrence Memorial Union. Both events are free and open to the public.

Active in the top echelons of national politics for more than two decades, including three presidential campaigns, Estrich has been a pioneer for countless women to positions of leadership. She was the first woman president of the Harvard Law Review, the first woman to head a national presidential campaign -- Michael Dukakis' White House bid in 1988 -- and the youngest woman ever to receive tenure at Harvard Law School.

One of the nation's leading legal scholars, Estrich is the Robert Kingsley Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of Southern California, where shešs taught since 1990. She spent nine years teaching at Harvard Law School before joining the faculty at USC.

She writes the "Portia" column for American Lawyer Media as well as a nationally syndicated column that appears in The Washington Post, The Boston Herald and The Houston Chronicle, among others. She also is a contributing editor to The Los Angeles Times and serves as a member of the Board of Contributors of USA Today.

A frequent guest commentator on national news program, Estrich is the author of five books, including the 2000 Los Angeles Times best-seller "Sex and Power," a frank examination of men and women and how power is divided between them, and 1998's "Getting Away with Murder: How Politics is Destroying the Criminal Justice System."

In addition to serving as national campaign manager for Dukakis, Estrich also served as a senior policy advisor on the Walter Mondale-Geraldine Ferraro campaign in 1984 and as deputy national issues director for Senator Edward Kennedy's 1980 presidential bid.

Estrich graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Wellesley College in 1974 and earned her law degree magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1977.