Lawyers e-Journal
Thursday, May. 13, 2010
Join the MBA at The Federalist Society's Shakespeare and the Law on June 15
The MBA is proud to co-sponsor, with McCarter & English LLP,
the Boston Lawyers Division of the Federalist Society's presention
of a staged reading of Henry V, as part of the
10th year of the Shakespeare and the Law series on
Tuesday, June 15 at 5:30 p.m. at the Cutler Majestic Theatre,
219 Tremont St., Boston. The staged reading will be followed
by a panel discussion of the law and war -- including the role of
patriotism, the treatment of enemy combatants, the trial of foreign
terrorists, and torture.
This event is free and will be hosted by Andrew H. Card
Jr., former White House chief of staff. Participants
include:
- Jay B. Stephens, Esq., general counsel,
Raytheon Co., Waltham, as Henry
- Hon. Nathaniel M. Gorton, U.S. federal
judge
- Hon. George A. O'Toole, U.S. federal
judge
- Hon. Patti B. Saris, U.S. federal judge
- Hon. Douglas P. Woodlock, U.S. federal
judge
- Hon. Rya Weickert Zobel, U.S. federal
judge
- Michael Avery, professor of law, Suffolk
University
- J.W. Carney Jr., Esq., Carney & Bassil,
Boston
- Kerry M. Healey, Ph.D., former lt. governor of
Massachusetts
- Jeff Jacoby, syndicated columnist
- John T. Montgomery, Esq., managing partner,
Ropes & Gray, Boston
- Jennifer Nassour, chair, Mass. GOP
- Michael Sullivan, Esq., former Mass. U.S.
Attorney and former acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol,
Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
- John Yoo, professsor of law, Berkeley Law, U.
Cal.
The reading will be directed by Steven Maler,
artistic director of Commonwealth Shakespeare Company (producers of
free Shakespeare on Boston Common). The panel discussion will be
moderated by Lawyers Division Chair and McCarter & English
Partner Daniel J. Kelly, and will feature
John Yoo, professsor of law, Berkeley Law, U. Cal.
and Michael Avery, professor of law, Suffolk
University.
R.S.V.P. to Dottie Moore at
(617) 449-6617 or via e-mail at [e-mail dmoore].