"Constitutional Public Interest Law: Litigating for Liberty"
About 60 students ate wraps while watching an excellent panel discussion
on Constitutional public interest law.
The panel discussed both full time and pro bono practice in a variety of areas
including religious liberty/First Amendment, civil rights, & property rights litigation, as well as policy design aimed at restoring and strengthening Constitutional individual liberties/responsibilities.
Panelists: - Jordan Lorence, Chief Counsel for the Alliance Defense fund (specializing in First Amendment Religious Liberties and pro-life/pro-family law & litigation)
- Kirk Kolbo & Larry Purdy, Attorneys at a major Minneapolis firm who -working pro bono with the Center for Individual Rights- recently argued against racial preferences before the U.S. Supreme Court
- Kimberly Crockett, Executive Director of Minnesota's Lawyers' Division of the Federalist Society
- Peter Nelson, U-MN Law student and former policy analyst at the Center for the American Experiment
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