Nadine Strossen, former president of the American Civil Liberties Union and professor of law at New York Law School, will discuss “Surveillance, Suppression and Secrecy” during a talk at the UO this week.

The event will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 16, in Room 175 of the UO’s Knight Law Center. The talk is free and open to the public.

Strossen served as president of the ACLU from 1991 to 2008 and now sits on its National Advisory Council. She was named one of “The 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America” twice by the National Law Journal for her work as a lawyer in constitutional law, civil liberties and international human rights.

The keynote speech is part of the Wayne Morse Legacy Series and the Val R. and Madge G. Lorwin Lectureship.

—By Nathaniel Brown, Public Affairs Communications intern