FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 2007

American Jewish Congress, St. Louis Chapter, and the Washington University School of Law present Annual Constitutional Conference

ST. LOUIS, September 18 -- The 27th Annual Constitutional Conference presented jointly by the American Jewish Congress, St. Louis Chapter, and the Washington University School of Law will take place this year on Sunday, October 7. Entitled Immigration Impasse: What Now?, the program begins with registration at 2:00 pm and proceeds at 2:30 pm with two and a half-hours of presentations by local expert practitioners in the field.

Presenters on immigration policy and its effects will be SUZANNE BROWN, immigration attorney and the Jerome W. Sidel Memorial Lecturer, and
panelists: JULIA OSTROPOLSKY , social worker, founder and executive director of Bi-Lingual International Assistant Services; COURTNEY PRENTIS, Director of Catholic Charities Community Services Southside, JOAN SUAREZ , Chair of Missouri Immigration & Refugee  Advocates.
Moderator will be RICHARD H. WEISS, journalist, writer, editor and coach.

The conference, which will be held in the Bryan Cave Moot Courtroom of Washington University Anheuser-Busch Hall, is entirely free and open to the public. Attorneys can earn 2.0 MCLE credits for attendance. A buffet reception will allow guests to mingle with the speakers. An optional donation of $25 per person to defray costs is requested.

Reservations  for the reception (required) may be made by email to msrmsr@sbcglobal.net  or by phone to 314.993.5505.

Other local organizations participating in the conference include:

American Civil Liberties Union of Eastern Missouri
Bar Association of Metropolitan St. Louis
Human Rights Commission of St. Louis County
Jewish Community Relations Council
League of Women Voters of St. Louis
United Nations Association of Greater St. Louis

We also sponsor the Jacobs' Lecture, an annual program on matters important to the Jewish Community.  That project is done in coordination with Temple Shaare Emeth.  Our last program, right before the 2006 election, on Stem Cell Research, with a presentation by Dr. Donald Danforth, drew a crowd of almost 400.