Edwin Meese to Speak on "The Constitution, The Courts and The Congress" At Federalist Society Dinner

February 16, 2006

Edwin Meese, U.S. attorney general under former President Ronald Reagan, will speak Feb. 21 at a dinner sponsored by The Federalist Society of the University of Richmond’s School of Law. Meese will speak on “The Constitution, The Courts and The Congress” and field questions from the audience.

The event begins at 6 p.m. at Tyler Hanes Commons’ Alice Haynes Room on the university campus.

Tickets for the three-course meal with wine are $15 for students, $25 for university faculty and staff and $40 for the public. The menu includes London broil, green beans with almonds and choice of roasted new potatoes or eggplant rolled with cheese in marinara sauce. For more information or to purchase tickets, e-mail Kristen Johnson of The Federalist Society at kristen.johnson@richmond.edu or call (804) 289-8470.

In addition to serving as attorney general from 1985-88, Meese was counselor to Reagan and member of the National Security Council from 1981-85. He is both the Ronald Reagan Distinguished Fellow in Public Policy and chairman of The Center for Legal and Judicial Studies at The Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.

The Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy Studies is a group of conservatives and libertarians interested in the current state of the legal order. It is founded on the principles that the state exists to preserve freedom, that the separation of governmental powers is central to the Constitution and that it is the province and duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, not what it should be.