Attorney and best-selling author Scott Turow will give a talk, “Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer’s Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty,” Thursday, Oct. 6, at 7 p.m. at Vanderbilt University.
Prior to his public lecture, Turow will be available to take questions from the media at 6:45 p.m. in the Board of Trust Room at the Student Life Center, located off of 25th Avenue South, on Vanderbilt’s campus. Turow’s lecture will be held in the Student Life Center’s ballroom.
An accomplished author, Turow has sold approximately 25 million copies worldwide and his books have been translated into more than 25 languages. Novels he has written include Presumed Innocent, which was turned into a 1990 movie starring actor Harrison Ford, The Burden of Proof, Pleading Guilty, The Laws of Our Fathers, Personal Injuries, Reversible Errors and Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer’s Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty.
His lecture is part of the Project Dialogue series, a yearlong, university-wide program that seeks to involve the entire Vanderbilt community in public debate and discussion, and attempts to connect classroom learning with larger societal issues.
WHAT: Attorney and best-selling author Scott Turow discusses “UltimatePunishment: A Lawyer’s Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty.”
WHERE: Media availability: Board of Trust Room, Student Life Center, located off of 25th Avenue South, on Vanderbilt’s campus.
WHEN: Media availability: 6:45 p.m. Public lecture: 7 p.m.
Media contact: Princine Lewis, (615) 322-NEWS
Princine.l.lewis@vanderbilt.edu