Lincoln (Neb.) - Oct. 10, 2001 - Deborah L. Rhode, the Ernest W. McFarland professor of law at Stanford University, will speak at the University of Nebraska College of Law on Oct. 26.
Rhode's lecture, "Gender and the Profession: The No-Problem Problem," will begin at noon in Ross McCollum Hall, East Campus Loop and Fair Street. It is free and open to the public. Rhode is the director of the Keck Center on Legal Ethics and the Legal Profession at Stanford and is widely published on topics related to ethics and gender. Her books include "In the Interests of Justice: Reforming the Legal Profession," "Justice and Gender: Sex Discrimination and the Law," "Speaking of Sex: The Denial of Gender Inequality" and "Ethics in Practice: Lawyers' Roles, Responsibilities and Regulation."
She is a former president of the American Association of Law Schools and is chair of the American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession and on the board of directors of the Equal Rights Advocates and the National Organization for Women Legal Defense Fund.
Rhode is a graduate of Yale Law School and a former clerk for U.S.
Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. For more information on Rhode,
visit the World Wide Web (http://www.stanford.edu/faculty/rhode).
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