NIU College of Law Announces 12th Annual Law Review Symposium:

“Domestic Violence and Victimizing the Victim: Relief, Results, Reform”

February 01, 2003

DeKalb-The NIU College of Law announces its 12th annual Law Review Symposium, "Domestic Violence and Victimizing the Victim: Relief, Results, Reform."  The Symposium will be held on Monday, March 24, at the NIU Holmes Student Center in DeKalb, Illinois.

The Symposium faculty include Mary Becker, co-director of the DePaul University College of Law's Family Law Center; Peggy Patty, director of the Legal Institute at the Illinois Coalition Against Domestic Violence; Jody Raphael, director for research at Chicago's Center for Impact Research; the Honorable Rosemary Collins, Judge of the 17th Circuit Court; Dr. Alan Rosenbaum, member of the Psychology Department and the faculty of NIU's Center for the Study of Family Violence and Sexual Assault; Deputy Don Parham, Winnebago County Sheriff's Department; and two members of the NIU College of Law faculty: Associate Professor Elvia Arriola and Assistant Professor Adele Morrison.

The goal of the Symposium is to bring together legal, social, and academic groups for in-depth discussion and consideration of domestic violence issues.  The Symposium organizers have designed the all-day conference so that there is ample time for interaction among panelists and symposium attendees.

Registration information is available at www.niu.edu/col/.

 
 
For more information, contact:
Melody Mitchell
Director, Alumni Events & Public Relations
815/753-9655l
L10CJS1@wpo.cso.niu.edu