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Law
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The
Honorable Jean Toal, Chief Justice, SC Supreme Court on the
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The
Riley Institute and the Charleston School of Law co-host the Inaugural
Symposium on Constitutional Reform
State
Constitutional Reform in the New South
January
15-16, 2009
The Charleston
School of Law and the Riley Institute at Furman sponsored a two-day
symposium in Charleston January 15 - 16, 2009 that focused on state
constitutional reform in the 21st century.
The “State
Constitutional Reform in the New South” symposium explored
such issues as the bans on illegal immigrant admission to state
colleges and universities, the role of South Carolina’s governor,
and whether the South Carolina constitution should guarantee more
than a “minimally adequate” education.
The symposium
is the inaugural offering in the annual “Law and Society”
series, which is presented by the Charleston Law Review of the Charleston
School of Law and the Richard W. Riley Institute of Government,
Politics and Public Leadership at Furman.
The program
began Thursday, January 15th at 5 p.m. in the Charleston Music Hall
with a keynote address by Charles McKinney, a founding fellow of
the Jamestown Project, a diverse, action-oriented think tank of
new leaders based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The symposium
continued on Friday, January 16th from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. with
a series of talks and panel discussions by scholars, judges, former
governors, legislators, lawyers and public advocates. hesecond day’s
activities took place at the Charleston Museum. A complete schedule
for the symposium is available by clicking here.
To view the
press release in its entirety, click
here; for an article by The Post and Courier,
click here and by The Greenville News, click
here. To view articles written about the conference by the Charleston
Regional Business Journal, click
here, by SCBIZ, click
here, and The Post and Courier, click
here.
(l-r) Drew Copenhaven, Charleston Law Review, and Will Cook,
Faculty Advisor, Charleston Law Review & Assistant professor
of Law, Charleston School of Law |
Secretary Riley with guest |
(l-r) Katie Fowler, Charleston Law Review, and William Tinkler |
(l-r) Andy Abrams, Dean & Professor of Law at the Charleston
School of Law with Lucy Sanders |
(l-r) Bill Lavery, Don Aiesi, both Furman professors, and Bobby
Anderson, a student at the Charleston School of Law |
Ben Garner, Charleston Law Review (center), with guests |
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