LAW & SOCIETY FALL 2002 LECTURE SERIES

Wednesdays at 7:30 PM in the Lounge Room of the Wailes Conference Center at Sweet Briar College

OCTOBER 2

Never Again? the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide Since the Holocaust

Professor Peter Ronayne
Federal Executive Institute

Dr. Peter Ronayne is a senior faculty member at the Federal Executive Institute. His areas of specialty include the prevention and punishment of genocide, ethics and statecraft, American foreign policy, and nuclear weapons and international relations. His most recent work, Never Again?: The United States and the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide Since the Holocaust was published in September 2001 by Rowman & Littlefield. His next book project is Enemy Within the Gates: The Challenge of American Homeland Security, also to be published by Rowman & Littlefield as part of an edited series on contemporary American political challenges. A former Presidential Management Intern and fellow for The Institute for the Study of World Politics, he has done work with the Center for Professional Military Ethics at the U.S. Naval Academy.

OCTOBER 23:

Patenting Your Genes: The Ethical Dilemmas of Genomics and Intellectual Property Law

Dr. Shawn Burgess
National Human Genome Research Institute
Head, Developmental Genomics Section

OCTOBER 30:

Defending the Environment in Court: Dispatches from the Front Lines

Kay Slaughter
Senior Attorney, The Southern Environmental law Center

Kay Slaughter is senior attorney with the Southern Environmental Law Center, a regional environmental organization working to protect the environment in the Southeast. A graduate of UNC-Chapel Hill and of the UVA Law School, she is a former member and mayor of Charlottesville City Council and has been appointed by Governor Warner to the State Water Control Board.