The Pierce Law Lecture Committee proudly presents:

THE 2007 FRANK ROWE KENISON LECTURE

Topic: THE DEATH PENALTY & THE SOCIETY WE WANT

Speaker: Stephen B. Bright, President & Senior Counsel, Southern Center for Human Rights

Date & Time: Monday April 9th, 2007; at 7 p.m. (reception to follow)

Venue: The Giles Sutherland Rich Room, Franklin Pierce Law Center

ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Stephen Bright has represented people facing the death penalty at trial and on appeal, as well as prisoners in challenges to inhumane conditions and practices. He has written numerous articles on the right to counsel and judicial independence, and has testified before the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. In addition to his work with the Center (where, prior to becoming President, he served as Director), Bright lectures regularly at Harvard and Yale Law Schools. In 1998, he received the American Bar Association's Thurgood Marshall Award and in 1991 was awarded the American Civil Liberties Union Roger Baldwin Medal of Liberty. He is a member of the Alumni Hall of Fame at the University of Kentucky College of Law, where he earned a JD degree in 1974. Bright has also received several honorary degrees in recognition of his public service.

ABOUT THE KENISON LECTURE SERIES: This is the eleventh in a series of lectures that honor Frank Rowe Kenison, Chief Justice of New Hampshire from 1952-1977. In June 1980, Franklin Pierce Law Center established the Frank Rowe Kenison Lecture Series to highlight the role of state court judges and the importance of state court jurisprudence on the legal landscape. Judge Kenison has been hailed as one of the great law judges of this century. Justice William J. Brennan, Jr., senior member of the United States Supreme Court, wrote that “my close and dear friend, Frank Kenison…is not only one of the small pantheon of truly distinguished Americans of our time, but he is one of the most compassionate human beings I have known in a fairly long time.” See you at the 11th Kenison Lecture on April 9th!

The Pierce Law Lecture Committee