MEDIA ADVISORY


AFFIRMATIVE ACTION, JUSTICE FOR AFRICAN-AMERICANS
WILL BE TOPICS OF APRIL 5 DISCUSSIONS AT U.VA.

	Law professors, lawyers, judges and others will discuss the
future of affirmative action and whether there is justice for
African-Americans in the criminal system in panels sponsored by the
University of Virginia Black Law Students Association on Saturday,
April 5.  The talks on those and other topics are part of the BLSA
Alumni Weekend at the law school, expected to draw about 50 alumni as
well as students and faculty.  The events are open to media coverage
and include: 

	10:30 a.m.-noon, "Is There Justice for Blacks in the Criminal
System?", Revercomb Courtroom.  Panelists will include General
District Court Judge S. Bernard Goodwyn (U.Va. Law '86) of Chesapeake
and Elois Howard (U.Va. Law '81) of the Philadelphia District
Attorney's office. 

	1:30 - 2:45 p.m., "Affirmative Action: What Does the Future
Hold?", Whitehouse Classroom. Panelists will include U.Va. law
professor Alex Johnson, Emmitt Carlton (U.Va. law '86) of the National
Association of Attorneys General, and John Garland, a U.Va. research
administrator and lawyer.

	3-4:15 p.m., "Securing Our Place in the Political Process,"
Hogan & Hartson Classroom. Panelists will include Judge Charles H.
Tolliver IV (U.Va. law '75) of the Superior Court of Delaware; Elva
Holland (U.Va. law '82), U.Va. director of governmental and community
relations, and Marva Camp Pender, U.S. congressional staff.

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April 3, 1997

	For more information, contact BLSA at (804) 924-7632.
Television reporters should call our TV News Office at (804) 924-7550.