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FIRST WEB SEMINAR ON THE JUSTICE SYSTEM AND THE MEDIA
June 15, 2006
The U.S. Embassy in Buenos Aires hosted the first-ever web seminar on "The Justice System and the Media" with Professor Stephen J. Wermiel of American University's Washington College of Law on June 15th. For the first half of the program, Prof. Wermiel exchanged ideas with Argentine judges, lawyers, and journalists gathered at the Embassy in Buenos Aires. During the second half of the program, Prof. Wermiel answered questions and discussed issues raised in emails sent to him by interested parties throughout Latin America. While the program was conducted with a live audience in Buenos Aires, it was simultaneously webcast throughout Latin America.
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Professor Wermiel Biography
Stephen J. Wermiel has been an associate professor at American University Washington College of Law since August, 2001. He previously served as associate director of the Program on Law and Government at the Washington College of Law beginning in January, 1999. From 1979 to 1991, Mr. Wermiel was the Supreme Court correspondent in the Washington Bureau of The Wall Street Journal. From 1972 to 1979, he was a reporter for the Boston Globe, and covered many legal stories in Boston before moving to the Globe Washington Bureau in 1974. Since 1991, he has been teaching law, first as a fellow at William and Mary Law School, then at Georgia State University Law School and now at American. He currently teaches media law, constitutional law, a seminar on the Supreme Court, First Amendment, and co-directs the Marshall-Brennan Fellowship Program in which law students teach constitutional law in the public high schools of Washington, D.C. Mr. Wermiel is at work on a biography of the late Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr., for which he had Justice Brennan's full cooperation. In 1982, Mr. Wermiel received a law degree from Washington College of Law, and he has been admitted to the Bar of the District of Columbia since 1984.
