Advisory: Catharine MacKinnon to deliver lecture on academic and intellectual freedom ANN ARBOR—The 2002 Davis, Markert, Nickerson Lecture on Academic and Intellectual Freedom will be delivered by University of Michigan Law Professor Catharine MacKinnon at 4 p.m. Oct. 31 at the Honigman Auditorium, 100 Hutchins Hall, U-M Law School.

"The event is free and open to the public. Her topic is “From Powerlessness to Power: The Uses of Academic Freedom.”

"MacKinnon is the Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law. She holds an A.B. from Smith College, a J.D. from Yale Law School, and a doctorate in political science from Yale University. MacKinnon, who is admitted to the bar in Connecticut and practices and consults nationally and internationally, has also taught at Yale, the University of Chicago, UCLA, Minnesota, Harvard, Stanford, and Basel (Switzerland). Her fields of concentration include constitutional and international law, with specialization in sex equality issues, and political theory. She is the author of many articles and books, including “Sexual Harassment of Working Women” (Yale, 1979), “Toward a Feminist Theory of the State”(Harvard, 1989) and “Only Words” (Harvard, 1993).

She has represented Muslim and Croat women survivors of Serbian genocidal sexual atrocities pro bono since 1992, winning with co-counsel an award of damages of $745 million from a New York jury in August 2000. Their case also pioneered the recognition of rape as an act of genocide under international law.

Sponsors of the event include: Office of the President; Academic Freedom Lecture Fund American Association of University Professors U-M Ann Arbor Chapter; Senate Assembly/Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs; and the U-M Law School.

For more information about the lecture series:http://www.umich.edu/~sacua/AFL/afl-lecture.html

For more information about Catharine MacKinnon: http://www.umich.edu/~aflf/catmack.html

E-mail: jseguine@umich.edu