To conclude the 2006-07 Southern University Law Center’s Speaker Series, Dean Nathaniel E. Friends will speak on Friday, March 9 at noon in A.A. Lenoir Hall.
Friends is the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs at Florida A&M University College of Law in Orlando, Fla.
His lecture is entitled, “A Diminution in Minority Voting Strength Under Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act: Revisiting the Standards that Have Been Applied 1965 to Date.”
Property, Antitrust and Telecommunications Law, as well as Administrative Law and Legislation, are the courses in which Friends is a professor of at the college.
Friends formerly worked as a corporate counsel for the AT&T Company as well as a former trial attorney for the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Among other responsibilities, he was responsible for enforcing the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Friends received his undergraduate degree from Roosevelt University and his Juris Doctorate from the University of Wisconsin.
The lectures are free and open to the public.
For more information, contact Stanley Halpin at (225) 771-4900 or Rachel Emanuel at 771-5815.