Friday, January 22, 2010

Andrea Lyon Angel of Death Row w/ Jamie Raskin 2/2/10, 6pm

The UDC David A. Clarke School of Law and Jamie Raskin, Professor of
Constitutional Law, American University
Present: Andrea D. Lyon, Professor of Law, DePaul University, nationally
recognized death penalty expert.
Author of "Angel of Death Row: My Life as a Death Penalty Defense Lawyer"

Tuesday, February 2, 2010 6:00 p.m.
the UDC David A. Clarke School of Law
4200 Connecticut Ave. N.W.
Building 39, Room 201
Washington, DC 20008

At the Van Ness-UDC station on the Red Line.
This event is free and open to the public.
RSVP on line at: http://www.law.udc.edu/event/Angel_of_Death_Row

Copies of Angel of Death Row: My Life As a Death Penalty Defense Lawyer
will be available for purchase, and Ms. Lyon will sign books. A wine
reception will precede Ms. Lyon's talk.

This trail-blazing attorney pioneered unconventional ways to defend
clients against society's ultimate punishment. Nineteen times, Ms. Lyon
has argued to save a convicted murderer's life, and 19 times she has
succeeded.

Come to hear her answer to the perennial question, "How can you defend
these people?"

Angel of Death Row: My Life as a Death Penalty Defense Lawyer is the
harrowing memoir of the first woman in the United States to head a death
penalty defense team.

Published January 5 by Kaplan Publishing.

"Riveting stories" - Kirkus Reviews

"Reads like a thriller with real life-or-death consequences" -
Bookselling This Week

"...timely, important, and a page-turner to the end." - Sister Helen
Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking

"...must reading for anyone who wants to see how the capital punishment
system really dysfunctions..." - Ronald J. Tabak, Chair, Death Penalty
Committee of the American Bar Association

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