2011 Albaugh Lecture - Mary Ann Glendon

The 2011 Roy B. Albaugh Lecture

Cicero and Burke on Politics as a Vocation
by Dr. Mary Ann Glendon

Tuesday, February 15, 2011, 7:30 p.m.
5th Floor Banquet Room, Cashion Building (CB 510)

Dr. Mary Ann Glendon, whom the National Law Journal named one of the “Fifty Most Influential Women Lawyers in America,” will discuss the lost art of politics as a vocation. Dr. Glendon is the Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a former United States Ambassador to the Vatican. Her books include Rights Talk: The Impoverishment of Political Discourse, A Nation Under Lawyers, and A World Made New: Eleanor Roosevelt and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Her most recent book, from Oxford University Press, is The Forum and the Tower: Politicians and Philosophers in Conflict, Compromise, and Collaboration.

Sponsored by Phi Beta Kappa of Baylor University. Free and Open to the Public. For more information, contact Dr. Michael Foley at Michael_Foley@baylor.edu.