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Law, Politics, and the Media

Lecture Series

Time: Wednesday, February 24 at 4:00 PM

Location: Dineen Hall, Feinberg Lecture Hall – Room 360

Citizen Engagement: 

The Foundation of Democracy

Charlotte “Chuckie” Holstein

Chuckie Holstein is the founder and executive director of F.O.C.U.S. Greater Syracuse, a citizen-driven organization that fosters citizen creativity to impact change in Central New York. Initiated in 1997, F.O.C.U.S. enables citizens, organizations, and government to work together to enhance the quality of life for all citizens.

Co-sponsored by The Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics, and the Media, and The Tully Center for Free Speech

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Law, Politics, and the Media

Lecture Series

Time: Wednesday, February 17 at 4:00 PM

Location: Dineen Hall, Feinberg Lecture Hall – Room 360

Contextualizing 2016:

Understanding the Evolution of Digital Strategy

in Presidential Campaigning

Jennifer Stromer-Galley

Director for the Center for Computational  and Data Sciences and Professor at the Syracuse University School of Information Studies.

Jennifer Stromer-Galley is the award-winning author of Presidential Campaigning in the Internet Age, a history of presidential campaigns as they adopted and adapted to digital communication technologies.

Co-sponsored by The Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics, and the Media, and The Tully Center for Free Speech

For more information, including a course syllabus, go HERE.

During the Fall 2015 semester, IJPM is once again offering an interdisciplinary course for undergraduates. For details, visit the Elements of Law course page

How the Media Covers High Profile Criminal Cases: Do the Facts Really Matter?

William J. Fitzpatrick
District Attorney, Onondaga County

Wednesday, February 18

4:00 p.m.

Syracuse University College of Law

Dineen Hall, Sonkin Seminar Room 342

Mr. Fitzpatrick has served as Onondaga County District Attorney since 1992, and has been a member of the Onondaga County District Attorney’s office for more than 30 years, with involvement in a variety of cases that have covered every facet of the law. Mr. Fitzpatrick’s work has gained national notoriety, including the 1992 conviction of Waneta Hoyt, which led to increasing awareness in the medical and legal communities about infant homicide and SIDS prevention, and recently, the conviction of “Black Widow” killer Stacy Castor.

Mr. Fitzpatrick’s lecture is sponsored by the interdisciplinary Institute for the Study of the Judiciary, Politics and the Media, and the Tully Center for Free Speech.

For a roster of Spring 2015 lectures, click HERE.

For the seventh year, IJPM is sponsoring the interdisciplinary course Law, Politics, and the Media.  Course information and syllabus can be found here.