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Access Restricted: “Rethinking America’s Drug Policy”
- Location
- The New York City Council Chamber, New York City Hall
- Dates & Times
- Wednesday, February 24, 2010 6:30PM–8:30PM
Featured speaker: John Donohue III, Leighton Homer Surbeck Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Professor Donohue, an economist/lawyer, will take up a vexing yet pragmatic question: are the gains reaped by decriminalizing illicit drug laws worth the cost of potentially increasing drug addiction at-large? This lecture will take place where New York City’s law making body meets, a room in which they have considered various legislations, including drug regulations.
About Access Restricted: Law & Representation
Even though Manhattan possesses one of the richest legal infrastructures in the country, the general public hardly ever interacts with these buildings and their use except for a few, very specified situations. In order to showcase this legal fabric, Access Restricted: Law & Representation hosts a series of talks by practicing lawyers, and scholars in the palaces and parlors where law is practiced or discussed.
Serving more as a constellation than a knot, the uniting rubric of the series teases the many meanings of the word “representation” by exploring current issues in law, while also investigating the law in art, architecture, and the media. Holistically, this multifaceted approach aims to foster its own “image” of the legal system and its concerns today.
Access Restricted is a free nomadic lecture series that opens rarely visited and often prohibited spaces in Manhattan to the general public. Once inside these unique interiors, the audience is treated to a site-specific lecture and discussion addressing a range of topics revolving around issues of architectural history and preservation, social justice, and urban development. The aim of the series is to foster new perspectives by encouraging the public to explore locales and situations through the various lenses of architecture and planning, art, history, sociology, political science, and law.
