Nootbaar Institute Presents 'Hungering for Righteousness' Lecture
Pepperdine's Herbert and Elinor Nootbaar Institute on Law,
Religion, and Ethics will host the 2008 Louis D. Brandeis Lecture titled "Hungering for Righteousness:What Can a Lawyer Believe About, and Hope
From, Law?" on April 11 from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. at the School of Law
in Room A.
The lecture will be given by Ellen S. Pryor, the Homer R. Mitchell Endowed
Professor of Law at SMU Dedman School of Law. Pepperdine's Edward J. Larson,
the Hugh and Hazel Darling Chair, and Douglas W. Kmiec, the Caruso Family chair
in constitutional law, together with Dallas Willard, Christian author and professor of philosophy at University of Southern California, will comment on the lecture. The topics of God's eternal
law, natural law, and human law will be explored.
In addition to serving as the Homer R. Mitchell Professor, Pryor has been an associate provost for SMU since 2006. She also serves as advisor to the American Law Institute's Restatement (Third) Torts and is the coordinating reporter for reconciling the various parts of that Restatement as it progresses.Pryor teaches first year Tort Law, Advanced Torts, Insurance, and a seminar on Faith, Morality, and the Practice of Law. She is a graduate of Rice University and the University of Texas School of Law, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the law review. Following graduation, she served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Carl McGowan of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. She is the winner of numerous teaching awards, as well as the State Bar of Texas' 1995 Frank Scurlock Award for the delivery of legal services to the poor and the Dallas Bar Association's 1995 Pro Bono Award of the Year.
To register, please call 310-506-7635 or email Gail Chester.