David Boies, Vice President Al Gore’s lead counsel during the 2000 election litigation and special trial counsel for the U.S. Department of Justice in the Microsoft antitrust lawsuit, will deliver the School of Law’s 2005 Tyrrell Williams Lecture on “Judicial Independence and the Rule of Law.” The lecture will begin at 4 p.m. Nov. 15 in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom of Anheuser-Busch Hall.
Boies’ talk is part of the law school’s Public Interest Law Speakers Series on “Access to Justice: The Social Responsibility of Lawyers,” which brings to the University nationally and internationally prominent practitioners, judges, academics and commentators. Last year, the series featured Theodore Olson, U.S. solicitor general and former attorney for George W. Bush in the 2000 election litigation.
“Olson and Boies were involved in one of the most contentious and most significant court cases in American history,” said Karen Tokarz, J.D., professor of law and director of clinical education programs. “It is important for us to learn from their insights about the judicial system and justice in America.”
Boies, chairman of the law firm Boies, Schiller, and Flexner LLP, is former chief counsel and staff director for the Senate Antitrust Subcommittee and the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee. His publications include Courting Justice: From New York Yankees vs. Major League Baseball to Bush vs. Gore, 1997-2000; and Public Control of Business: Cases, Notes, and Questions.
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