TUSCALOOSA, Ala. -- Professor David E. Bernstein of the George Mason University School of Law will speak Thursday, Oct. 9, at noon in the Moot Court Room of The University of Alabama School of Law on “How Antidiscrimination Laws are Being Used to Suppress Civil Liberties.” His talk, which is open to the public, is sponsored by the Federalist Society, a student organization of the UA School of Law.

Bernstein is a graduate of Yale Law School. He later worked as a clerk for Judge David Nelson of the 6th Circuit and then as a litigator at Cromwell & Moring in Washington, D.C. He also served as a Mellon Foundation Research Fellow at Columbia University School of Law. He is the author of over 60 scholarly articles, book chapters and think-tank studies.

His books include: “Only One Place of Redress: African-Americans, Labor Relations and the Courts from Reconstruction to the New Deal,” and co-editor of “Phantom Risk: Scientific Interference and the Law.” Other books written by Bernstein forthcoming later this year include: co-author of “The New Wigmore: Volume on Expert and Demonstrative Evidence,” and author of “You Can’t Say That! The Growing Threat to Civil Liberties from Antidiscrimination Laws.”

Lunch will be served at the lecture. For more information, contact Jennifer McCracken at the UA School of Law, 205/348-5195.