Nichol will be discussing “Patriots, National Security, and Civil Liberties”. The lecture will be held at Owens Auditorium on the Sandhills Community College campus in Pinehurst at 7:30 p.m. Admission is free with no tickets required.
Gene Nichol is Dean and Burton Professor at the University of North Carolina School of Law, teaching courses in constitutional law, federal courts, political reform and civil rights. Prior to coming to Carolina, he was Dean of the Law School at the University of Colorado in Boulder. From 1984-1988, Nichol was the James Gould Cutler Professor of Constitutional Law at the College of William and Mary and Director of the Institute of the Bill of Rights. He has also taught at Oxford, Exeter and West Virginia University.
Nichol is the author (with Martin Redish) of Federal Courts and has published articles and essays on civil liberties and federal judicial power in a wide variety of journals including the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the University of Chicago Law Review, the Michigan Law Review, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review and others.
Nichol has testified frequently on constitutional matters before committees of the U.S. Congress and various state legislatures. From 1995-96, he was host of the public affairs program, “Culture Wars,” for KBDI-TV, Channel 12 in Denver. From 1998-99, Nichol was a regular columnist for the Rocky Mountain News and the Colorado Daily. Since 1999, he has been a frequent op-ed writer for The News & Observer of Raleigh.
Nichol has also worked extensively in public affairs. In 1990, he was chairman of the Governor’s Bipartisan Commission on Campaign Finance Reform in Colorado. The following year, he served as a member of the Colorado Reapportionment Commission.
He was named special master by a three-judge federal court in Martinez v. Romer to resolve a dispute between the governor and legislature over the drawing of federal congressional districts. Legislation was passed implementing the agreement. He also chaired the Colorado Supreme Court’s study on the Quality of Justice and (in 1998) the court’s mandatory pro bono task force.
In 1996 and 1998, Nichol ran for the Democratic nomination for the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate from Colorado-winning the state conventions, but losing in the primaries. He was elected to membership in the American Law Institute, the American Bar Foundation Fellows and the Colorado Bar Foundation Fellows.
The Ruth Pauley Lecture Series is sponsored by the Moore County League of Women Voters, the American Association of University Women, Sandhills Community College and the Moore County Schools.
Additional information can be obtained by calling 910-245-3132 or checking the Web site at www.sandhills.cc.nc.us.
