LAW SCHOOL TO HOST RUBASH DISTINGUISHED LECTURE

PITTSBURGH, March 30 -- The University of Pittsburgh School of Law, in partnership with the School of Social Work, will host the Norman J. and Alice Chapman Rubash Distinguished Lecture in Law and Social Work with guest speaker Bernardine Dohrn on Tuesday, April 7, at 5 p.m. in the Law School's Teplitz Memorial Courtroom, Oakland.

Dohrn is director of the Children and Family Justice Center at Northwestern University School of Law. Her lecture, which is free and open to the public, is titled "A New Chance: Children and Families in the New Millennium."

The Rubash Distinguished Lecture Series has been established through a gift by Norman J. Rubash, a 1957 graduate of Pitt's Law School, and his wife, Alice Chapman Rubash, a 1956 graduate of Pitt's School of Social Work. In addition to the lecture series, the Rubashs have created the Norman J. and Alice Chapman Rubash Clinical Legal Education Fund in the School of Law. Proceeds from that fund support clinical education in the Law School, especially programs that contribute to the resolution of cases involving children and the elderly.

The Norman J. and Alice Chapman Rubash Distinguished Visitorship is the primary project supported by the fund which brings a figure in the field of law and social work to the University who participates in the teaching missions of both the Law and Social Work schools and delivers a public lecture to the community.

Dohrn was founding member of the American Bar Association's (ABA) steering committee on the Unmet Legal Needs of Children, a member, founder, and co-chair of the ABA Section of Litigation's Task Force on Children, and served on the advisory board of the ABA Center for Children and the Law.

She is currently a member of the Children/Family Working Group of the Governor's Commission on the Status of Women in Illinois, the Citizens Committee on the Juvenile Court, and the Local School Council for the Nancy B. Jefferson School at the Juvenile Temporary Detention Center School.

Dohrn also serves as a board member of Human Rights Watch Children's Rights Project and the Midwest Committee for Human Rights. She served on the Juvenile Justice Subcommittee of the Illinois Supreme Court Special Commission on the Administration of Justice, and currently serves on the steering committee of the Illinois Family Violence Coordinating Council.

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