DR. RASNIC SETS BUSY LECTURE SCHEDULE

Dr. Carol Rasnic, professor of Employment Law and Business Law, has set herself a busy lecture circuit. On April 15 at 11 a.m. Dr. Rasnic will be the moderator of a panel on “United States-German Relations” sponsored by World Affairs Council of Greater Richmond, VCU and University of Richmond at the VCU Student Commons. The event is from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Featured speakers will be German Ambassador to the USA Wolfgang Ischinger, Dr. Karsten Voigt (Coordinator of U.S.-German Relations, German Foreign Ministry), and Dr. Daniel Hamilton (Prof. of Trans-Atlantic Relations, Johns Hopkins University.

In the evening (April 15) she will speak to a group of Ireland-bound travelers from Church of the Holy Comforter, in Richmond. She will talk about Celtic sites, Irish legal, political and religious history.

On April 23 she will be in Vancouver, Canada at the : Pacific Northwest Region, American Academy of Legal Studies, to present "Ireland's 2004 Constitutional Referendum: Changing the Citizenship-by-Birth Provision".

Her earlier presentations were on North Atlantic Region, American Academy of Legal Studies, Bentley College (Mass.), April 2 "No More Smoke in those Smiling Irish Eyes: Ireland's 2004 Smoking Ban Legislation".

On March 14 she spoke to the RA law faculty, Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Ireland, discussing "Freedom of Religion and Non-establishment of Religion under the U.S. Constitution". Later in the day she spoke at the law school, Trinity College Dublin, presenting “The Death Penalty, the U.S. Constitution, and the U.S. Supreme Court".

Other conference presentations include:

As a Fulbright Specialists Dr. Rasnic has received a 6-week teaching grant for this summer at the law school in Graz, Austria. While there, she also will teach a course in American labor law (in English) and give two seminars (in the German language) on specific areas of U.S. labor law to lawyers in Graz and to academics at the university in Maribor, Slovenia.