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March 10th 2008 • Printer version
Reception to Honor Oregon Law Professor Steve Benders New Book Scheduled March
14
Oregon Law Professor Steve Benders new book, One Night in America: Robert Kennedy,
Cesar Chavez, and the Dream of Dignity,(Paradigm Books, 2008) will be honored
on Friday, March 14, at a book reading and reception event held from 4 to 5:30
p.m. in the Wayne Morse Commons at the Knight Law Center. Sponsored by the Latin American Law Students Association, the event is free
and open to the public.
Professor Benders book is the first to chronicle the multifaceted friendship
of Robert Kennedy and Cesar Chavez and its relevance to American and Latino/a
politics today. At the reception, Professor Bender will speak about current immigration policy
and the legacy of Kennedy and Chavez.
Professor Bender is a James and Ilene Hershner Professor of Law and Director
of Portland Program. He is the coauthor of a casebook on real estate transactions, a national treatise
on real estate financing and a book on Latino stereotypes entitled, Greasers and
Gringos: Latinos, Law and the American Imagination, (NYU Press, 2003).
Wayne Morse Center for Politics Visiting Distinguished Scholars Richard Delgado
and Jean Stefancic will provide commentary at the event. Both Delgado and Stefancic are renowned authors and law professors from the
University of Pittsburgh School of law. They are completing work on a casebook on Latino law.
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