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Photo: A color JPEG image of Michael Kirby is available for download at the University Communications Web site, .

When: Tuesday, Sept. 22, noon

Where: Courtroom, Ross McCollum Hall (College of Law), East Campus Loop and Fair Street

Contact: Sarah Gloden Carlson, Director of Communications, College of Law, (402) 472-1526, gloden@unl.edu

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Former Australian High Court justice to speak Sept. 22 at Law College

Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 18, 2009 -- Michael Kirby, former justice of the High Court of Australia, will lecture Sept. 22 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln College of Law.

Kirby will discuss "Citation and Use of Foreign and International Authority in Constitutional Decision-making" in the college's Roman L. Hruska Institute for the Administration of Justice Lecture. Kirby retired from the High Court of Australia Feb. 2. He was appointed to the High Court in 1996 and served 13 years. Since his judicial retirement, he has been elected president of the Institute of Arbitrators and Mediators Australia. He also serves as editor-in-chief of The Laws of Australia.

The first Hruska Institute, in 1996, featured Justice Anthony Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court. Other lecturers have included justices Steven Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court. The institute recognizes the career of Roman L. Hruska, who served as U.S. senator from Nebraska from 1954 to 1977 and who participated prominently in efforts to enhance the administration of justice in the federal courts. The institute is jointly sponsored by the College of Law, the Nebraska State Bar Foundation and members of the federal judiciary.

Kirby's lecture is free and open to the public and begins at noon in the Courtroom of Ross McCollum Hall, East Campus Loop and Fair Street.

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