Law college presents 'antidiscrimination law' lecture


David E. Bernstein, professor of law at George Mason University School of Law and a nationally recongnized expert on the Daubert case, which argued on the admissibility of expert testimony, will present the lecture "Threats to CilivlLiberties from Antidiscrimination Laws." A past chairperson of the Association of American Law Schools Evidence section, he is an expert on the "Lochner Era" of American constitutional jurisprudence and authored Rehabilitating Lochner, forthcoming from Chicago Press, coauthored The New Wigmore: Expert Evidence (Aspen Law and Business 2003) and coeditored Of Phantom Risk: Scientific Inference and the Law (MIT 1993).  Bernstein also authored Only One Place of Redress: African-Americans, Labor Regulations, and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal (Duke 2001).

Professor Bernstein teaches Products Liability, Evidence, Constitutional Law I and II, and Expert and Scientific Evidence, and is a contributor to the popular Volokh Conspiracy blog. Thu., Apr. 2, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law at ASU, Armstrong Hall, 1100 S. McAllister Ave., Room 111, Tempe campus. This lecture is sponsored by ASU's student chapter of the Federalist Society. For more information, please contact Paul Clawson at e-mail Paul.Clawson@asu.edu.