Legal Community Joins Together To Offer Free Class To Portland High School Students

Business Wire, Feb 14, 2003

Business Editors, Education Writers

PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 14, 2003

Thirty speakers, fifteen law firms, one church and a bakery have banded together to offer a free morning lecture series in constitutional studies to Portland high school students during their unexpected "days off."

The lecture series will take place each weekday 8 a.m.-noon, March 17-20 and May 14-June 11 - days of school that otherwise would be lost due to the state's budget crisis. The classes are open to all Portland high school students who either have taken or are interested in taking a course on the United States Constitution. It is offered free of charge to students and to the public. Each class will begin at 8 a.m. with fresh baked goods and a lecture and discussion, after which students will go in small groups to the offices of private downtown law firms that have made their library facilities available for study. Homework will be assigned. Credit for the hours of direct instruction may be available.

The lecture speakers include lawyers, judges, authors, and legal educators. The participating law firms are Ater Wynne, Ball Janik, Bullivant Houser, Davis Wright, Dunn Carney, Lane Powell, Lindsay Hart, Markowitz Herbold, Meyer & Wyse, Miller Nash, Perkins Coie, Preston Gates, Schwabe Williamson, Stoel Rives, and Tonkon Torp. The bakery is Great Harvest Bread Company.

Lecture topics include "George Washington and His Times", "Government...for the People", "The Death Penalty", and "Education and the Right to Privacy". A complete list of the series is included with this release.

Portland Public Schools are scheduled to lose 24 days of instruction this spring. Although we cannot begin to compensate for the loss of learning this represents, the members of the community mentioned above will offer a course of instruction on the Constitution to continue the civic education of Portland's high school students. In doing so, the organizers hope to symbolize their belief in children and the importance of public education.

The First Congregational United Church of Christ is located at 1126 S.W. Park Avenue. Students interested in attending should register by contacting Jill Gomery, Curriculum Vice President, Lincoln High School, at 916-5200 or, jgomery@pps.k12.or.us.

                                              Portland School District
First Congregational United Church of Christ
1126 S.W. Park Avenue
(corner of Park and Madison)

                          Portland Citizens
                       CONSTITUTIONAL LECTURES

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SPEAKER             WORK                TOPIC                    DATE
---------------     ---------------     --------------------    ------
Barnes Ellis        Stoel Rives LLP     The Right to Counsel     March
                                                                  17

Jefferson Smith     Stoel Rives LLP     The Progressive Era:     March
                                         Roosevelt, Hand and      18
                                         Wilson

Stephen Kafoury     Stephen Kafoury     The Legislative Process  March
                     Government          in Theory and Practice   19
                     Relations

Brian Posewitz      Tonkon Torp LLP     Freedom of Speech in     March
                                         the Schools              20
Brian Booth                             Justice William O.
                                         Douglas and Freedom of
                                         Speech

Darian Stanford     Stoel Rives LLP     Religious Liberty in     May
                                         America                  14

Hon. Neil           Neil Goldschmidt,   "Government... for       May
 Goldschmidt         Inc.                 the People"             15

Hon. Ancer Haggerty  United States       A Dialogue on Freedom   May
                     District Court                               16
Hon. Ellen Rosenblum Multnomah County
                     Circuit Court

Phillip Margolin    Author              How a Real Case Travels  May
                                         from the Multnomah       19
                                         County Courthouse to
                                         the United States
                                         Supreme Court

Phillip Chadsey     Stoel Rives LLP     From Magna Carta to      May
                                         Stix Occidentalis        20
                                         Couvina

William Long        Willamette Law      The Death Penalty        May
                     School                                       21
Norman Frink        Multnomah County
                     District Attorney's
                     Office

Stephen Kanter      Northwestern        The Unfulfilled Promise  May
                     School of Law       of the Declaration of    22
                                         Independence

Roy Pulvers         Lindsay Hart Neil   The Initiative           May
                     & Weigler LLP                                23

Hon. Susan Graber   Ninth Circuit       Law and Poetry           May
                     Court of Appeals                             27
Stephen Griffith    Stoel Rives LLP

Robert Stacey       1000 Friends of     Does Mt. Hood Have       May
                     Oregon              Property Rights?         28

Alison Brody        Miller Nash LLP     Oregon Schools, Oregon   May
Michael Porter                           Courts                   29

Hon. Jack Landau    Oregon Court of     It All Happened Here:    May
                     Appeals             Oregon Cases in the      30
                                         U.S. Supreme Court

Charles Hinkle      Stoel Rives LLP     Private Rights and       June
                                         Public Duties            2

James Carter        Nike, Inc.          Commercial Speech and    June
                                         the Global Economy       3

James Westwood      Stoel Rives LLP     George Washington and    June
                                         His Times                4

Stephen Bushong     Oregon Department   Drugs and Federalism:    June
                     of Justice          The Constitution, the    5
Erin Lagesen        Stoel Rives LLP      Controlled Substances
                                         Act and State Regulation
                                         of  Medical Practice

Hon. Wallace        Oregon Supreme      An Independent           June
 Carson              Court               Judiciary                6

Hon. Thomas Balmer  Oregon Supreme      Oliver Wendell Holmes    June
                     Court               and the Common Law       9

Timothy Volpert     Davis Wright        Education and the Right  June
Shelly Larkins       Tremaine LLP        to Privacy:              10
                                          Vernonia School
                                          District v. Acton

Harold Hart         Citizen             If Lincoln Were Alive    June
                                         Today                    11