Lecture Part of College of Law’s Distinguished Faculty Series

Attorney Gerald P. López will be the DePaul College of Law Enlund Visiting Scholar when he presents an informative lecture on the plight of the Los Angeles garment workers at the turn of the century at 3 p.m., April 15 at 25 E. Jackson Blvd., Room 8005. Lopez is a professor of law at UCLA who has who has represented the Los Angeles garment workers. He is one of several distinguished and diverse speakers sponsored by the College of Law to help commemorate DePaul’s centennial year.

"Gerald López is well known for his scholarly and progressive analysis of the law," said Teree E. Foster, dean of the College of Law. "We are fortunate to attract such a distinguished and engaging legal mind to enlighten our students and the community at large. López serves as an excellent example of the type of eminent legal thinkers the Enlund program allows the College of Law to host."

López joined the faculty of UCLA in 1978, after teaching law at California Western in San Diego. He took a break from UCLA in 1985 to assume the Kenneth and Harle Montgomery Professorship in Public Interest Law at Stanford Law School. While at Stanford he played a leading role in restructuring the law school curriculum. He also taught at Harvard Law School before returning to UCLA in 1994.

His numerous awards and honors are a testament to López’s popularity and ability. He is the recipient of the John Bingham Hurlbut Award from Stanford, and the Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching, the University-wide Teaching Award, the Harvey L. Eby Award "for the art of teaching," and the Professor of the Year award from UCLA.

Prior to his journey into the world of academia, López co-founded the law firm of Jones, Cazares, Adler and López. He earned a bachelor’s degree in 1970 from the University of Southern California and a law degree from Harvard in 1974.

Passionate about public interest law, López has a long history of working in the areas of civil rights and community organizing. He lectures around the country on such subjects as race, immigration, poverty, economic development and progressive law practice.

The Enlund Visitor-In-Residence Program is named for E. Stanley Enlund, a 1942 DePaul College of Law graduate. The program is designed to attract the nation’s foremost legal thinkers to help deepen the understanding of the law and its role in society, and explore differing perspectives on the law, lawyers and social justice. Each Enlund Visitor delivers a major paper at DePaul. Past visitors have included Harvard Law Professor Martha Minow, U.S. Court of Appeals Judges Guido Calabresi and Jon O. Newman, and University of Texas Law Professor Douglas Laycock.

The lecture is free and open to the public. For more information call Susan Alico at 312/362-6229.