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Former Congressman Mickey Edwards to Speak at Oklahoma City University School Law

Business Wire, Oct 31, 2007

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Former Congressman Mickey Edwards, a 1970 graduate of Oklahoma City University School of Law, will speak in the Homsey Family Moot Courtroom at OCU School of Law 5 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 6. The title of his lecture is "Does the Constitution Matter Anymore? Separation of Powers in the New Century."

Edwards is a lecturer at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. He also is a vice president of the Aspen Institute and director of the Institute's Rodel leadership program for elected public officials.

Edwards served as a member of Congress for sixteen years, during which time he was a senior member of the House Republican leadership as chairman of the Republican Policy Committee, a member of both the House Appropriations and Budget Committees, and ranking member of the House Subcommittee on Foreign Operations. After leaving Congress, he taught government and public policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government for eleven years before moving to Princeton in 2004. He has taught at Harvard Law School and as a visiting professor at Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute.

Edwards has been a regular columnist for a number of newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Examiner, and Boston Globe, and broadcasted a weekly political commentary on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered." He is the author of two books, co-author of a third, and has contributed chapters to several more. His latest book, Reclaiming Conservatism, describing the evolution of American conservatism and the resulting constitutional crisis, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.

Edwards' appearance is sponsored by the OCU School of Law chapters of The Federalist Society and The American Constitution Society. The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information call (405)208-5335 or e-mail lawnews@okcu.edu.

Oklahoma City University School of Law is fully approved by the American Bar Association and is a member of the Association of American Law Schools. It offers full- and part-time degree programs and serves a diverse student body of approximately 600. Its 5,000 alumni practice in every state and several foreign countries. For more information, visit www.okcu.edu/law.>