The Presidential Lecture Series

Presents:

Paul Finkelman
President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law Albany Law School

Buck Franklin Memorial Lecture

A Covenant With Death:The Constitution, Slavery, and the Problem of Equality in America

April 18, 2007 • 8:00 p.m. • Sharp Memorial Chapel

Paul Finkelman, a specialist in American legal history, race and the law, is the President William McKinley Professor of Law and Public Policy and Senior Fellow in the Government Law Center at Albany Law School. Prior to accepting the position at Albany Law School, he was Chapman Distinguished Professor of Law at The University of Tulsa College of Law and founder of the Buck Franklin Memorial lectures. Finkelman is the author and editor of more than 20 books, 100 articles, and 80 book reviews as well as numerous essays in newspapers and other non-scholarly publications such as the New York Times and USA Today. His writing focuses on the law of American slavery, the First Amendment, American race relations, the U.S. Constitution, freedom of religion, and baseball and the law. He was the chief expert witness in the Alabama Ten Commandments monument case, and his work on religion and legal history is cited in briefs to the U.S. Supreme Court involving this issue.

The Presidential Lecture Series is free and open to the public. For more information, call (918) 631-2555.