TWO-TIME PULITZER PRIZE WINNER TO HEADLINE HARTMAN HOTZ LECTURE SERIES

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.— Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning author Anthony Lewis will speak at noon, Friday March 5, in the Courtroom of the University of Arkansas School of Law as part of the Hartman Hotz Lectures Series in Law and Liberal Arts.

Lewis , who has both a bachelor’s and law degrees from Harvard University, is a former columnist for The New York Times and author of "Gideon’s Trumpet" and "Make No Law." He won Pulitzer Prizes for his 1955 coverage of the dismissal of a Navy employee for security reasons and in 1963 for his coverage of the United States Supreme Court.

His address for the Hartman Hotz Lectures Series will explore how the media has failed to speak out against the government’s decision to disregard constitutional rights in the name of national security on the topic "Has the Media Failed America?"

Lewis' appearance is in conjunction with the law school's Media, Entertainment and Sports Law Conference, which will begin at 10:30 a.m. on March 5^th in the Courtroom. The conference will feature Derrick Gragg, the university's director of compliance and associate athletic director, and Darrell Brown, a NFLPA certified agent and state commissioner, who will discuss rules for athletes and agents in "The Ins and Outs of Agent-Athlete Contact."

Bruce Phillips, an associate at Jack, Lyon & Jones, P.A. in Nashville, Tenn.,, is slated to speak at the conference before Lewis' keynote address. Phillips practices in the areas of entertainment, employment, intellectual property and Internet law and will speak on "The Evolution of the Artist/Record Label Relationship in the Digital Age."

The Media, Entertainment, & Sports Law Conference is being presented by the University of Arkansas School of Law's Media, Entertainment and Sports Law Association. The Hartman Hotz Lecture is sponsored by the Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences through the Hartman Hotz Lectures Series in Law & Liberal Arts Fund. A light lunch reception will follow.