The 3rd annual Media-Law Symposium will be Nov. 11-12. This year the subject is: "The Perfect Storm: The Intersection of Sports, the Law and the Media."

Once again, there will be two main events. The first will be a panel discussion Wednesday at 5 p.m. at Stackhouse Theater. It features a remarkable group of participants:

     Larry Woodward (lawyer for Michael Vick)
     Lee Hawkins (Wall Street Journal reporter; host of the documentary "Newbos: The Rise of America's New Black Overclass")
     Christopher Lyons (Donte Stallworth's lawyer)
     Jackie MacMullan (former Boston Glove sports writer/editor now a correspondent for ESPN and a regular on "Around the Horn"

The second event -- a panel entitled "Women in the Locker Room: Are the Boys Still Being Boys?" -- will be held Thursday morning at 10 a.m. also at Stackhouse. It features an equally distinguished group:

     Lesley Visser (CBS Sports; first woman NFL beat reporter and first woman with Monday Night Football, among other "firsts"
     Christine Brennan (sports columnist for USA Today and commentator for CNN and CBS)
     Jackie MacMullan (ESPN correspondent)
     Kim Ng (VP and assistant general manager for the Los Angeles Dodgers)

The Media-Law Symposium is sponsored by the department of journalism and mass communications and the School of Law.

Venham bater papo e escutar portugues!

Law students in W&L's International Human Rights Practicum recently traveled to Tanzania to investigate enforcement of the country's 1998 Sexual Offenses Act. The landmark legislation amended the country's penal code to include tougher penalties for sexual assault and outlawed human trafficking and the harmful cultural practice known as female genital mutilation.

During their ten-day stay in Tanzania, the students conducted approximately 60 interviews with various stakeholders including judges, lawyers, police officers, health care providers and a variety of non-governmental organizations that provide legal aid and counseling to victims of sexual violence.

The students are in the process of compiling their findings into a human rights report that partner organizations will use to convince the Tanzanian Parliament to further adjust the law and legal procedure to improve enforcement and to fulfill Tanzania's obligations under international human rights law.

The students participating in the course will present the results of their research on Thurs., Nov. 12 at 5 p.m. in Classroom A of the Law School.

Free and open to the public. Questions, contact Johanna Bond (bondj@wlu.edu)

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W&L School of Law is pleased to feature this program as one in a series of commemorative events celebrating the introduction of the School of Law's new third-year curriculum -- a reinvention of the final year of law school to better prepare students for the practice of law in order to meet the evolving needs of the public and the profession.

Through this new curriculum, which emphasizes the development of professional identity, ethical sensibilities, problem-solving and the exercise of judgment in action, W&L is transforming law school into a three-year progression from the purely academic study of law to the development of the lawyer's professional role as counselor and advocate in the highest ethical traditions of the profession. For more information, visit http://law.wlu.edu/thirdyear

Prof. Rahul Kumar, of Queen's University, Canada, will be speaking at 5:30 p.m. in Reid 111 on the topic: "Why Reparations ?"

Prof. Kumar works in moral philosophy and is the author of "Consensualism in Principle" (Routledge, 2001). He has been a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University and a visiting fellow at Princeton University and has taught at the University of Pennsylvania and Rhodes University, South Africa. 

Learn about opportunities for growing and marketing sustainable and organic crops.  Information on what can be produced sucessfully in this area and resources for training and support.  Sponsored by Appalachian Sustainable Development www.asdevelop.org.  The workshop will be held in the Elrod Commons Building at Washington and Lee - room 345.  For more information please contact Christopher Carpenter at ccarpenter@wlu.edu. 

Venid a la casa Hispánica (4 Lee Avenue) a ver una buena pelicula y practicar espannol.

Some big international names in the theater world will be attending the 10th National Symposium of Theater in Academe at Washington and Lee University from November 11-14.

Titled "Performyth," the symposium has expanded this year to include the First International Theater Festival. All performances and events are free and open to the public, but those who wish to attend three or more events, should pay the registration fee of $50. W&L students and faculty will have free access to all events.

Details at http://www.wlu.edu/x36147.xml

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"Camino de Santiago," new paintings from Spain and France by Walter Cumming. Sept. 25-Nov. 30, 2009 in Williams Gallery, Huntley Hall.

Gallery Hours are Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Open to the public without charge.

See http://williams.wlu.edu/gallery

"Portraits from Life," paintings by Michael Ananian, Sept. 1-Dec. 11, 2009--McCarthy Gallery, Holekamp Hall.

Gallery Hours are Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Open to the public without charge.

See http://williams.wlu.edu/gallery

Kamen Gallery Hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Artist Shirley Irons is a painter and photographer who has been exhibiting, teaching, lecturing, and curating for over 25 years. She uses her paintings to “slow down, edit out, [and] look for the permanence in the transitory.” In her current series, Irons paints empty institutional spaces, such as airports, office buildings, and hospitals, along with other fragments of daily life.  The works evoke an ephemeral transcendence suspended in environments that we experience indirectly. Irons teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and is represented by the Luisotti Gallery in Santa Monica, California.

Staniar Gallery is open Monday - Friday, 9am-5pm

Introduced in 14th-century Japan, the netsuke would hang from a kimono's obi or sash by a cord to attach the container in which Japanese men would store their personal belongings. These soon became elaborately sculpted from ivory, lacquer, wood and other exotic materials.

The netsuke in the Washington and Lee Collection come from alumnus Joseph M. Glickstein.

Kamen Gallery hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.