The schedule we are going to start on time. The new time. On behalf of myself and bob bauer who is my supremely wise, talented and collegial codirector of the nyu law schools legislative and regulatory process clinic i wanted to welcome you here today to the fourth o year of the for. We are joined this year by another nyu law entity, the reef center on law and security, a nonpartisan multidisciplinary institute and the director, rachel, who is here has been invaluable in helping pull together the program for this afternoon. This b forum would not be possie without the generous support of sibley austin, a Renowned International law firm and so it gives me great pleasure to introduce to you, peter who is a partner in the chicago office. He knows a lot about what we are talking about today. He served his district in illinois in the u. S. House of representatives for six terms, from 20072019. During that time he held a number of very significant positions. One of those most pertinent to wh
Bauer, who is my supremely wise, talented, and collegial codirector of the nyu law schools legislative and regulatory process clinic, i wanted to welcome you here today to the fourth year of the Sidley Austin forum. We are joined this year by another nyu law entity, the center on law and security, a nonpartisan, multidisciplinary institute. And the director, richard gold brenner who is here, has been invaluable in helping pull together the program for this afternoon. This forum would not be possible without the generous support of Sidley Austin, a Renowned International law firm. So it gives me great pleasure to introduce peter roskam him, who is a partner in their Chicago Office Company Knows a lot about what we are talking about today. He served his district in illinois in the u. S. House of representatives for six terms, from 20072019. And during that time he held a number of very significant positions. One of those most pertinent to what were talking about today is that he chaired
Title and for a wonderful, fascinating conversation. Thank you very much. Thank you, paul thank you all. Good afternoon, everyone. Im david brigham. Im the librarian and ceo here at the Historical Society of pennsylvania. It is a great pleasure to have you here for our inaugural program in our refreshed patterson room. This is literally the first event in this newly renovated space. So welcome and thank you for coming by with us this afternoon. Were absolutely delighted to be collaborating with the Philadelphia Club and appreciate the promotional support from the Library Company of philadelphia and the American Philosophical Society. Our topic today is the underground railroad and one of our colleagues has described William Still. Els journal si as the most extensive, most important document of the underground railroad that survives. So we are thrilled to be able to share that with you under the plexiglass over there, youll be able to see it again at the end of the program. But were go
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We told you that it is an interdiction to all the turmeric events that have happened over the past almost 300 years. It have guest speakers who would bring to class something that the two of us can bring, their personal experiences. Their personal experiences and richmond. I cant imagine a better person to talk about his personal experiences in richmond, how it has changed, what the future might hold, that our former governor, former mayor of the dale douglasond, wilder. [applause] before we bring up the former governor, i want to say couple of words. As we talked about many times a semester, we have a great resource here the weather school. We are closed the state capital, not far from washington, d. C. As a graduate student here, i took advantage of the applied nature of this. I hope youre getting some of that in the exploring neighborhoods richmond project, getting out into community, meeting people, interview people, talking about lee legacy of neighborhoods from the folks on the g