The CFAR Speakers Bureau is off to an active start.

• First on deck is Professor Jonathan Silver with a provocative session on AMERICA's POLITICAL GIFT TO THE WORLD: JUDICIAL SUPREMACY. He will talk for 20 minutes and invites questions for the rest, especially questions that attack his thesis. He is available for teachers high school student groups or college student groups
• Professor Marty Margulies will talk on any one of several topics:
  The First Amendment in the Schools-Post Littleton
  The History of the First Amendment-Then & Now
• Attorney Richard Ratcliffe: The First Amendment, Free Press & the Right to Fair Trial is there a Conflict?
• Attorney Gary N Mozer on Vouchers, Schools and the Establishment Clause
• Attorney Ethel S. Sorokin on The Thirty Year War of Words (1830-1860) and Its Impact on The First Amendment

Director Maria Santos and the Speakers are developing more topics all the time, so call CFAR with your needs and interests. Our speakers are varried and talented:

CFAR's top notch speakers on various First Amendment issues are available for groups large and small, for your class or school for your club or business meeting, study group or workshop.

Dr. Eugene Baten teaches in the business graduate school at Central Connecticut State University. He holds degrees from Harvard, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and Temple University. He has wide experience in business, public education, and public policy, and speaks often on business and educational topics.

Loftus Becker is a professor of law at the University of Connecticut and holds degrees from Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania. He has published many articles and reviews about law and technology and is an authority on the Internet. He is a former Supreme Court law clerk and a trial and appellate lawyer and a frequent speaker on the Internet and the First Amendment.

Rev. Robert J. Drinan is professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center in Washington. He holds degrees from Boston College and Georgetown University Law Center and has been a Jesuit priest since 1953. He served 10 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he was a Member of the Judiciary Committee. He has written and lectured throughout the world on many subjects and has won recognition for his advocacy of human rights.

Irving D. Fisher is a professor of political science at the University of Southern Maine in Portland, teaching constitutional law and political theory. He holds degrees from the University of Connecticut and Columbia University. He is a retired Air Force officer and a member of the Maine and American Civil Liberties Unions.

Frederick M. Lawrence is associate dean and professor of law at Boston University Law School. He holds degrees from Williams College and Yale Law School and is a former assistant U.S. attorney. He has written and lectured widely on free speech issues.

Martin B. Margulies is a professor at Quinnipiac College School of Law in Hamden, Connecticut, and holds degrees from Columbia College, Harvard University and New York University. He has served on the boards of the American and Connecticut Civil Liberties Unions. He writes frequently about First Amendment issues and has provided legal counsel in many free speech cases and speakes often on various aspects of the First Amendment.

Chris Powell is managing editor of the Journal Inquirer in Manchester, Connecticut. He writes a syndicated column about Connecticut topics and is a frequent guest on Connecticut television programs. He is an officer of the Connecticut Council on Freedom of Information and the Connecticut Policy and Economic Council and frequently leads discussions onFirst Amendment issues.

Kevin F. O'Shea is a publisher of First Amendment Rights in Education, a monthly review of freedom of speech and religion in schools. He holds degrees from Harvard Law School and Northwestern University. He practices law in Bloomfield Hills, Mich.

J. Richard Ratcliffe practices law in Providence, R.I. He is a former Rhode Island assistant attorney general and holds degrees from Washington University School of Law and Providence College. He has spoken and taught at Brown University, the Community College of Rhode Island, and the Rhode Island State Police Academy. He is a member of the editorial board of the Rhode Island Bar Journal. He frequently talks with high school, college and profesional groups on the First Amendment.

Maria A. Santos is an attorney with Rome McGuigan Sabanosh PC and specializes in corporate and contract law. She has been a financial underwriter, is fluent in Spanish and Protuguese, and is a former executive director of the speakers bureau of the Center for First Amendment Rights, Inc.

Stacy M. Schneider is chair of the Connecitcut Bar Association's Media and the Law Committee. She practices civil, criminal, probate, and family law in West Hartford. She has been a Connecticut court clerk and a television news reporter and producer in Florida, Georgia, and Washington, D.C. She is a graduate of Cornell Univeristy and holds a law degree from the University of Florida.

Daniel A. Silverpractices law in New Britian, Conn., and is former national president of the First Amendment Lawyers Association. He holds degrees from Marietta College and Cleveland State University. He has litigated extensively in federal court on civil rights cases. He is a former member of the Town Council and Board of Education in Wethersfield, Conn.

Jonathan L.F. Silver is a founding professor at Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University in New York. He has taught courses about federal courts, tort law, labor law, and criminal procedure. He teaches an annual seminar on the Supreme Court's docket. He has written many legal articles and holds degrees from Yale and the University of Pennsylvania.

Ethel Silver Sorokin is co-founder and president of the Center For First Amendment Rights, Inc. and co-founder of the Hartford Conn., law firm of Sorokin and Sorokin (now merged into Pullman & Comley LLC). She is a former member of the Connecticut Judicial Review Council and former president of the University Connecticut Law School Foundation. She holds degrees from Vassar College and the University of Connecticut School of Law. She speaks to groups large and small on various aspects of the First Amendment. i.e. "How nasty are we free to be?", "Justice Brandeis Privacy and the First Amendment."

Leo T. Sorokin is assitant federal public defender in Boston. He is a former Massachusetts assistant attorney general who handled the defense of laws challeged on constitutional grounds. He also has practiced civil and criminal law in Boston. He holds degrees from Yale College and Columbia University School of Law.

Richard D. Tulisano is Chief of Staff for the Connecticut House of Representatives and former chairman of the state House Judiciary Committee well known for his support of civil liberties. He practices law in Hartford and Rocky Hill, Conn. He holds bachelor's and law degrees from University of Connecticut and is available to speak on various aspects of the First Amendment.