Today, American voters are electing a new president, Congress and state government officials. The event, which is the 2000 NC State University Harrelson Lecture, is free and open to the public. A reception will follow.
Media coverage is invited.
The Harrelson Lecture series, which is sponsored by the NC State Provost's Office, began in 1961 under the provisions of the will of the late Chancellor John W. Harrelson, and is NC State s distinguished university lecture series. Strossen, professor of law at New York Law School, has written, lectured and practiced extensively in the areas of constitutional law, civil liberties and international human rights. In 1991, she was elected president of the ACLU, becoming the first woman to head the nation's largest and oldest civil liberties organization. She comments frequently on legal issues in the national media, and writes monthly columns for the online publications Intellectual Capital and The Position . She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1975, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review.