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Lubar Commons Room, University of Wisconsin Law School, Bascom Hill, Madison

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please join us for this provocative discussion . . .

Benson Scotch on
RESTORING THE RULE OF LAW WHERE IT MATTERS MOST:
The new debate over war powers, defense policy, and the National Guard

with special guest
State Representative Spencer Black
lead sponsor of WI National Guard federalization review legislation

Noon, THURSDAY, APRIL 2nd, 2009
University of Wisconsin Law School, Lubar Commons

Benson Scotch, the recently retired Executive Director of Vermont's ACLU, has spent his entire legal career working to enhance and improve our democracy.  At the ACLU Ben worked hard to highlight the importance to our democracy of protecting the individual rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights and the Vermont Constitution.  Prior to serving with the ACLU, Ben was Senior Staff Attorney to the Vermont Supreme Court for 15 years.

A Harvard Law School graduate, Ben began his career in public service by working for a summer at the Association of American Indian Affairs. He became a member of the legal board of the American Jewish Committee, a civil liberties organization in NYC.  During the 1970’s Ben was Assistant Attorney General in Vermont, with a focus on environmental enforcement, followed by years of service as Staff Counsel to Senator Patrick Leahy on the Senate Judiciary Committee. Today, Ben is senior counsel to the "Bring the Guard Home! It's the Law," a campaign of veterans, military families, and citizen advocates to democratize defense policy by ending unlawful deployments of the National Guard.

Open to students, faculty, and staff. A limited number of seats are available for alumni and other community members; please RSVP.
 

For Benson Scotch's links to helpful legal and policy documents:

http://www.bringtheguardhome.org/resources/scotch_sources

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Hosted by the UW National Lawyers Guild and co-sponsored by the Institute for Legal Studies, Liberty Tree Foundation, Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice, Wisconsin: Bring the Guard Home!, Veterans for Peace, Iraq Veterans Against the War, and more TBA.

If you'd like to help get the word out about this event, a pdf of a poster is right here. Just print it out and post it. Thank you.

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