Richmond School of Law to hold debate on campaign finance reform

October 29, 2008

In the wake of a costly presidential campaign pitting candidates who took distinctly different approaches to campaign finance, the University of Richmond School of Law will host a debate Nov. 13, 6 p.m., on "Hard Questions about Soft Money: Campaign Finance Reform and Fiscal Freedom in Today's Economy."

The debate will be held in the law school's Moot Court Room. Sponsored by the Richmond Journal of Law and the Public Interest, it is free and open to the public. A reception will follow.

Laura MacCleery of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law will speak for campaign finance reform. Reid Cox, legal director at the Center for Competitive Politics in Washington, D.C., will speak for fiscal freedom. John Pagan, university professor at Richmond and former dean of the law school, will moderate.

The debate is part of the Emanuel Emroch Lecture Series, established by the late Emanuel Emroch, his wife Bertha, and their friends and associates. The series' endowment is currently supported by Emroch's son, Walter Emroch, and his wife. Emanuel Emroch received a B.A. in 1928 and a J.D. in 1931, both from Richmond.

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