Slate magazine's Dahlia Lithwick to be guest lecturer at Bownes Forum April 10

“‘Supreme Changes’ --- How Supreme Court Press Coverage has Changed in a Few Short Years” will be the focus of a presentation by Dahlia Lithwick, senior editor and legal correspondent for Slate magazine, at this year’s Judge Hugh H. Bownes Forum on Civil Rights to be held on Thursday evening, April 10, beginning at 7 PM in the Giles Sutherland Rich Room at Franklin Pierce Law Center, Two White Street.

Lithwick writes a column entitled “Supreme Court Dispatches” for Slate, an online magazine. Her work has appeared in the New York Times, the New Republic, Elle, the Ottawa Citizen, and the Washington Post. In 2001, she received the Online News Association’s award for online commentary.

Lithwick is co-author of Me v. Everybody: Absurd Contracts for an Absurd World, a legal humor book and I Will Sing Life: Voices from the Hole in the Wall Gang Camp, a book about seven children from Paul Newman’s camp who have life threatening illnesses.

Before joining Slate, Lithwick worked for a family law firm in Reno, NV and clerked for Chief Judge Procter Hug of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. She holds a BA degree in English from Yale University and JD degree from Stanford Law School.

Pierce Law established the Judge Hugh H. Bownes Forum on Civil Rights in 1992 as an annual commemoration of the writing of the Bill of Rights. Named after United States First Circuit Court Judge Hugh H. Bownes, the Forum is Pierce Law’s annual renewal of its dedication to the protection of individual rights and liberties, and its testimonial to a man whose life’s work was committed to these ideals.

For additional information, please call Franklin Pierce Law Center, (603) 228-1541.