NPR Correspondent Nina Totenberg to Discuss Future of Supreme Court at Winthrop Rockefeller Center
Nina Totenberg
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Nina Totenberg, National Public Radio’s award-winning legal affairs correspondent, will discuss recent and pending changes in the United States Supreme Court on Tuesday, March 14, at The Winthrop Rockefeller Center on Petit Jean Mountain.
Totenberg’s reports air regularly on NPR's critically acclaimed news magazines All Things Considered, Morning Edition and Weekend Edition.
The reception begins at 6:30 p.m.; dinner starts at 7 p.m.; and Totenberg will speak at 8 p.m.
Registration for the event may be made by calling (501) 727-5435 or online at http://www.wrcenter.net/wrcenter/Nina.html. The registration fee is $150 for an individual or $225 for a couple; this fee includes Totenberg’s speech, dinner, reception, overnight lodging, breakfast on Wednesday and a Wednesday-morning panel discussion. (To register for the dinner, speech and reception only the cost is $75 per person.)
The panel will discuss how current Supreme Court decisions affect Arkansas. University of Arkansas School of Law professors Steve Sheppard and Don Judges will be part of that panel discussion.
The program is hosted by the Winthrop Rockefeller Center/University of Arkansas System, the University of Arkansas School of Law, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law and the Arkansas Bar Association. For more information, call (866) 972-7778 or visit the Winthrop Rockefeller Center at http://www.wrcenter.net.
Contacts
Amy Ramsden,
director of communications, School of Law
(479) 575-6111, aramsde@uark.edu
(866) 972-7778 or (501) 215-7995, walkers@uawrc.net
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