Vol. 18, No. 17	Jan. 21, 1999

Human rights series continues

She will speak on "Human Rights and War Crimes" at 7:30 tonight in Room 108 Arsht Hall on the Wilmington campus.

Schrag was responsible for advising on prosecution policy and procedures, preparing indictments and presenting evidence to the court for the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia.

Prior to that she was an assistant United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, responsible for investigations, trials and appeals primarily in cases involving fraud, income tax evasion and other white-collar crimes.

She received her law degree from Columbia University, where she was the editor of the Columbia Law Review.

Her master's degree is from Harvard University and her bachelor's degree is from Radcliffe College.

Schrag is a member of the board of directors and former president of the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund and has been a member of the teaching teams for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy and the Harvard Law School Trail Advocacy Workshop. She is a retired partner in the Prosakauer Rose law firm in New York.

The next speakers in the series are Kit Cosby, coordinator for external affairs, National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the U.S. and co-chair of the Working Group on the Human Rights of Women, who will speak on Thursday, Jan. 28, and Sheila Berry, special assistant to the Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes in the U.S. Department of State, who will speak on Monday, Feb. 1.

Both talks will be held at 7:30 p.m. in Room 125 of Clayton Hall.

The series is sponsored by the World Affairs Council of Wilmington, the University's Office of International Programs and Special Sessions and Department of Political Science and International Relations.

For more information on the lecture series, call 831-2355.