Pitt Law Professor Jules Lobel to Discuss Civil Liberties and the War on Terrorism in a July 7 Presentation

PITTSBURGH—Jules Lobel, University of Pittsburgh professor of international and constitutional law and vice president of the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York, will discuss civil liberties in a presentation titled "The Ongoing Struggle to Defend Civil Liberties" at 7 p.m. July 7 in the William Pitt Union Ballroom,

3959 Fifth Ave., Oakland.

The free public event will focus on the activities of the center, a national civil and human rights organization. Legal cases the center has brought against the Bush Administration include:

• representing prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay and challenging the administration's stance on the Geneva Conventions;

• filing a class action case representing Muslim detainees taken into custody following the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001;

• challenging the administration's policy of indefinite retention of American citizens designated "enemy combatants"; and

• challenging one provision of the Patriot Act before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

Dennis Brutus, professor emeritus in Pitt's Departments of English and Africana Studies, will moderate the program. For more information, contact Professor Brutus at 412-648-7556.

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