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Richard L. Siegel: Lecturer

Richard L. Siegel has been invited to deliver scores of public lectures on four continents as well as dozens of presentations to groups of professional from abroad brought to his home university by the United States government, the National Judicial College, and other sponsors. He also appears before government bodies and nongovernmental organizations` conferences on a regular basis.

A scholar and practitioner in diverse areas of civil liberties and human rights, he is able to address both the domestic and foreign policy aspects of human rights in the United States and in numerous other countries. He brings to these presentations experience from his decades of work for the American Civil Liberties Union at the national, state and local levels and his international work for the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and cultural Rights. He has presented updates on his research on socioeconomic human rights and the death penalty to audiences at the National Judicial College in Reno, Nevada, at Oxford, England, and in Pretoria, South Africa. His overviews of U.S. domestic and foreign human rights policy have been heard at universities in Bilbao, Spain and Beijing, among other sites. Critical perspectives on America and its policies and practices have also been the focus of his talks to visiting professionals at the University of Nevada and the National Judicial College, to whom he offers views and information that they do not hear about in official briefings. .

The audience sizes for these and other presentations have ranged from a handful to a thousand people-- including members of Rotary International drawn from abroad and from much of the United States as well as students, lawyers and professors in Bilbao, Oxford and Beijing. They have also included law students at New York University and both civil servants and leaders of non-government organizations in South Africa. He is quite at ease with small and very large audiences--speaking extemporaneously and with commitment about his country's policies and about the human rights causes to which he has dedicated his scholarly and political life.