Contact:

Joan M. Dim (212) 998-6849

U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Richard S. Arnold will deliver the New York University School of Law's fall 1996 James Madison Lecture on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 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: "How James Madison Interpreted the Constitution."

Judge Arnold has served as chief judge of the Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit since 1992. He received his LL.B. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he led his class. After serving as law clerk to Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., he practiced for 13 years in Washington, D.C. and in Arkansas. He then served as legislative assistant to Sen. Dale Bumpers.

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 lecturers 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 Ginsburg as well as many distinguished judges of the U.S. Courts of Appeal.

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