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U.S. Supreme Court associate justice to lecture
Mark
Reuter, Law Editor
(217) 333-0568; mreutter@illinois.edu
10/16/02
CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — John
Paul Stevens, an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, will speak
at the University of Illinois College of Law Oct. 25 (Friday) on the
evolving role of government. His talk begins a new lecture series at
the college.
The lecture will begin at 2 p.m. in the college auditorium, 504 E. Pennsylvania Ave., Champaign.
The oldest member
of the court, Stevens was nominated by President Gerald Ford and joined
the court Dec. 19, 1975. Stevens had been a federal appellate court
judge for the Seventh Circuit.
A native of Chicago, Stevens was general counsel to an Illinois Supreme
Court commission investigating the conduct of two state supreme court
justices in 1969.
The lecture series on government and the law has been endowed by Piper
Rudnick, a law firm with offices around the country, and the Marbury
Institute, the firm’s initiative to promote the highest ideals
of the legal profession.
The Piper Rudnick-Vacketta Lecture on Government and the Law lecture
series is named after Carl Vacketta, head of Piper Rudnick’s government
contracts practice in Washington, D.C., and a 1965 alumnus of the College
of Law at Illinois.
