MEDIA ADVISORY
                     EXPERT TO DISCUSS CONTROVERSIES OVER SEPARATION OF 
                            POWERS AT MILLER CENTER FORUM

	A bipartisan national commission aimed at helping to clarify disputes 
over separation of powers, will sponsor a talk at the University of Virginia's 
Miller Center for Public Affairs on Monday, Nov. 3, at 11 a.m.

	Katy Jean Harriger, professor of politics at Wake Forest University, 
will lead a discussion about the growing number of controversies over 
presidential, judicial and congressional power and responsibilities.  
Harriger is author of "Independent Justice: The Federal Special Prosecutor in 
American Politics," as well as numerous articles and essays about the 
separation of powers and the politics of independent counsels.

	Headed by former U.S. Sen. Howard W. Baker Jr. and former U.S. 
Attorney General Griffin Bell, the Miller Center's Commission on Separation 
of Powers is examining the American presidency.  The Commission began work 
earlier this year and will soon report its findings and recommendations. 

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                                                              October 27, 1997


	For more information, call Shirley De Vault, at the Miller Center at 
(804) 924-7236.  Television reporters should contact our TV News Office at 
(804) 924-7550.