DATE: Wednesday, October 24, 2007

TIME: 12:30p.m.

LOCATION: William S. Boyd School of Law, Room 105

The UNLV Center for Democratic Culture and the William S. Boyd School of Law will sponsor a public forum on "The Relationship between the Judiciary and Executive Branches of Government in the Russian Federation and the United States." The panel will feature judges from different regions of the Russian Federation and legal scholars from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The comparative discussion will focus on the mechanisms that insure independence of the judicial system in post-soviet Russia. The discussion will be moderated by the Hon. Lloyd George, United States District Judge for the District of Nevada, and Dmitri Shalin, Director of the UNLV Center for Democratic Culture. The Russian delegation includes appellate, district, and municipal court judges in the Russian Federation. Their visit to Las Vegas is sponsored by the Open World Program of the American Councils for International Education and is hosted by the Hon. Lloyd George. Members of the campus and Southern Nevada community are cordially invited to take part in the panel.

For additional information, please contact Catherine Bacos at 895-5869.