Drake Law School will host three powerful lectures this week featuring  a senior VP at Sony Music; Ambassador Stephen Rapp, LW’74; and a distinguished panel.

“An Insider’s Legal Perspective on the Music Industry”
Wade Leak, Sony Music Entertainment
April 6, 2017
3 p.m.
Cartwright Hall, Room 206

Wade Leak is senior vice president, deputy general counsel, and chief compliance, ethics, and privacy officer at Sony Music. He manages all U.S. litigation and provides day-to-day legal advice to the label groups at Sony Music on a wide range of matters, including copyright, trademark, online marketing, and data privacy issues.

During the lecture, Leak will discuss his experience overseeing the compliance program at Sony Music and share his thoughts on the ever-changing legal landscape affecting the music industry, highlighting several recent key legal developments and impactful cases. The lecture is part of the Drake Intellectual Property Law Center’s Big IDEA Speaker Series.

For more information, visit http://www.drake.edu/law/about/news/index.php?article=18313.

“In Pursuit of International Criminal Justice”
Ambassador Stephen Rapp
April 6, 2017
11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Cartwright Hall, Room 201

Stephen Rapp, a 1974 Drake Law alumnus, served as U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for Global Criminal Justice from 2009 to 2015, during which time he coordinated U.S. government support to international criminal tribunals responsible for prosecuting persons charged with genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. He also served as a prosecutor for the Special Court for Sierra Leone and as senior trial attorney and chief of prosecutions at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda.

Rapp is currently a Distinguished Fellow at The Hague Institute for Global Justice and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Prevention of Genocide.

For more information, visit http://www.drake.edu/law/about/news/index.php?article=18308.

2017 Constitutional Law Symposium: “President Obama’s Constitutional Law Legacy”

April 8, 2017
8:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m. (Registration and breakfast begins at 8 a.m.)
Cartwright Hall, Room 213

The Drake Constitutional Law Center will welcome experts from across the country to discuss “President Obama’s Constitutional Law Legacy” at the annual Constitutional Law Symposium.

During his term, President Obama faced opposition to many of his initiatives, which caused him to invoke executive power. Among the issues in which executive power played a role were the Affordable Care Act, the use of drones, recess appointments, immigration policy, signing statements, and more. Other constitutional issues also arose, such as same-sex marriage. The symposium will explore these issues and the constitutional law legacy that Obama left behind, as well as address President Donald Trump’s potential impact on this legacy.

The symposium will feature the following speakers:

• Taunya Lovell Banks, Jacob A. France Professor of Equality, Francis King Carey School of Law, University of Maryland
• Eric Berger, Associate Dean for Faculty and Professor of Law, University of Nebraska College of Law
• John Eastman, Henry Salvatori Professor of Law & Community Service, Dale E. Fowler School of Law, Chapman University
• Ilya Somin, Professor of Law, George Mason University
• Stephen Rapp, Distinguished Fellow, The Hague Institute for Global Justice and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Prevention of Genocide

The event is free for Drake affiliated individuals. For more information, visit http://www.drake.edu/law/about/news/index.php?article=18191.