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May 1, 2004
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To celebrate Law Day and the 50th anniversary of Brown v Board of Education, the City of Troy City Attorney's Office has invited Dr. Robert A. Sedler to speak to the public about the Brown case and it's historical significance regarding civil rights law. You are invited to join us on:
Wednesday, May 12, 2004 at 2:00 p.m.
City of Troy, City Council Chambers
500 W. Big Beaver Road
Troy, MI 48084
Following Dr. Sedler's presentation, cake and coffee will be served in the Lower Level Conference Room. A voluntary contribution of $1 will be collected, with all proceeds donated to CARE House, a non-profit organization that provides assistance to victims of child abuse and their families. Reservations are not required.
Dr. Sedler is a Distinguished Professor of Law and Gibbs Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, where he teaches courses in Constitutional Law and Conflict of Laws. Prior to coming to Wayne State in 1977, he was Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, Kentucky. Professor Sedler received his A.B. degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1956 and his J.D. degree from the same University in 1959. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Order of the Coif. He has published extensively in both of his fields and in 1994 he published a book on American Constitutional Law for the International Encyclopedia of Laws. The book was updated and republished in 2000.
Professor Sedler has litigated a large number of civil rights and civil liberties cases in Michigan, Kentucky and elsewhere, mostly as a volunteer lawyer for the ACLU. Cases he has litigated in Michigan include the Dearborn parks case, the racial discrimination in adoption and foster care case, nativity scene and school prayer cases, the University of Michigan speech code case, the physician-assisted suicide case, and the challenge to the suspicionless drug testing of welfare recipients.
Professor Sedler was named a Gershenson Distinguished Faculty Fellow at Wayne State for 1985-87, and received the Donald H. Gordon Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1988. He has also received awards from the NAACP Kentucky Conference in 1975, the ACLU of Kentucky in 1976, the NAACP Metropolitan Detroit Brand in 1986, the Southwestern Michigan ACLU in 1988, the Metropolitan Detroit ACLU in 1994, and the Oakland County ACLU in 2002. He was the Chairperson of the Michigan State Bar Constitutional Law Committee from 1981 - 1987, and Chairperson of the Legal Education Committee from 1988 to 1994.
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