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Thursday, March 20, 2008

WENDY MURPHY COMING TO KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY MARCH 25

MANHATTAN -- Victims rights advocate Wendy Murphy, an adjunct professor of law at the New England School of Law in Boston, will visit Kansas State University next week.

Murphy will make two presentations. Both are in the K-State Student Union Forum Hall. Both events are free and open to the public.

At 10 a.m. she will present "And Justice For Some," which is also the title of her new book. At 4 p.m. she will present "Rape and the Failure of Law Reform: What's Wrong and What You Can Do." Murphy is an ex-prosecutor who specialized in child abuse and sex crimes cases. The first lawyer in the country to run a program to provide free legal services to crime victims, she has been fighting for victims' rights for 20 years. Having served as a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Law School, Murphy now represents crime victims in civil and criminal cases and teaches an advanced seminar on sexual violence at the New England School of Law in Boston. As an adjunct professor, she also manages the Sexual Violence Legal News and Judicial Language projects at her law school and consults with crime victims across the country. She writes scholarly and pop culture articles, and lectures widely on victims' rights, sex crimes, violence against women and children, media coverage of crime and the criminal justice system. She has worked as a legal analyst for CBS News, CNN, Fox News and MSNBC.

Sponsors of her visit include Wildcats Against Rape, Student Governing Association, Women's Center, Lafene Women's Clinic, department of political science, women's studies program, department of sociology, anthropology and social work, university honors program, Flint Hills Sexual Assault Coalition, K-State counseling services.