Professor Paul Cassell of the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law will testify before the Advisory Committee on the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure in Washington, D.C. on Friday, January 26, 2007. Cassell will urge comprehensive changes to the federal rules to protect the rights of crime victims.
Read MoreThe Middle East Center is hosting a lecture examining a possible military clash between the U.S. and Iran given by Gary Sick, Executive Director of the Gulf 2000 Project at Columbia University. The talk entitled “Iran and the United States-Is a Military Clash Inevitable?” will take place on Monday, Nov. 27 at 3:00 p.m. in the Hinckley Caucus Room 255, Orson Spenser Hall (OSH.) The lecture is free and open to the public.
Read MoreKevin Trenberth, a leading expert on how human activities are causing global warming and making hurricanes more intense, will deliver two lectures on the topic at the University of Utah. The public and news media are invited to attend.
Read More“Contemporary Immigration: Trends and New Destinations” will be the topic of a presentation by Charles Hirschman, Boeing International Professor in the Department of Sociology, and Professor at the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington. Hirschman will describe the shifting patterns of immigrant settlement to new destination areas, including here in the Rocky Mountain West. He will speak on Friday, November 10, at Noon, in the Hinckley Caucus Room, OSH 255, on the campus of the University of Utah. His appearance is made possible by the Department of Sociology, the Department of Political Science, the Department of Economics, and the University of Utah Institute of Public and International Affairs (IPIA), and is part of the year-long “Integrating the Immigrants” Brown Bag series.
Read MoreOver the past four decades the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law’s annual William H. Leary Lecture Series has hosted a wide range of insightful and thought provoking guest speakers. In continuation of this long standing tradition, Richard H. Fallon Jr., the Ralph S. Tyler Jr. Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School will talk about “Executive Power and the Political Constitution,” Thursday, Oct. 26, at 7 p.m. in the Sutherland Moot Courtroom at the law school.
Read MoreLaughlin McDonald, the director of the Voting Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in Atlanta, has represented minorities in numerous discrimination cases and argued cases before the United States Supreme Court. He has testified repeatedly before Congress and written for scholarly and popular publications on civil liberties issues.
Read MoreThe College of Social and Behavioral Science (CSBS) at the University of Utah announces the establishment of the Barbara L. and Norman C. Tanner Center for Nonviolent Human Rights Advocacy. With the U and individuals and organizations from across the state as the catalyst, the center will pursue nonviolent human rights advocacy on the interpersonal, community and global levels through the education and participation of students, faculty, staff and the greater community.
Read MoreWho is most likely to vote in presidential elections? Researchers have known that who votes can be determined by a trio of individual characteristics: education, age, and residential stability; and the more you have of each, the greater the probability of voting, with education the strongest predictor of voter turnout.
Read MoreThe regions near international borders often suffer from unique problems. The air quality along the United States/Mexico border region is an excellent example. To address this issue, a group of University researchers has been selected by the Southwest Consortium for Environmental Research and Policy (SCERP) to search for solutions.
Read MoreJames F. O’Connell, professor and chair of anthropology at the University of Utah, was elected Tuesday as a member of the prestigious National Academy of Sciences.
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