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Joan M. Dim (212) 998-6849

New York (Sept. 30, 1997) -- The Honorable Richard A. Posner, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, will deliver the New York University School of Law's fall 1997 James Madison Lecture on Tuesday, Oct. 21, at 6 P.M. in Vanderbilt Hall, NYU School of Law, 40 Washington Square South. The Madison Lecture is the principal lecture series at the NYU School of Law.

This year's lecture is entitled: "Against Constitutional Theory."

Judge Posner, who graduated first in his class from Harvard Law School in 1962 and also served as president of The Harvard Law Review, joined the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit as a Judge in 1981 and rose to Chief Judge in 1993.

In the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, Judge Posner served as a law clerk to Justice William Brennan, Jr., assistant to Commissioner Philip Elman of the Federal Trade Commission and assistant to the Solicitor General of the U.S., Thurgood Marshall. Judge Posner has written more than 25 books and more than 250 articles and reviews and was the founder of the Journal of Legal Studies. His recent books include Private Choice and Public Health: The AIDS Epidemic in an Economic Perspective (co-authored with Tomas Philipson) Overcoming Law, Aging and Old Age, and Law and Legal Theory in England and America.

The James Madison Lectures were established by the NYU School of Law in 1960 to enhance the appreciation of civil liberty and to strengthen the sense of national purpose. James Madison lectures have included Supreme Court Justices Hugo Black, William J. Brennan, Jr., Earl Warren, Thurgood Marshall, Harry A. Blackmun, Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsberg as well as many distinguished judges of the U.S. Courts of Appeals.

Please call Flo Dawson at 998-6414 if you plan to attend.