Event Date and Time
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Location
The David C. Driskell Center, Cole Student Activities Bldg, 1214, College Park, MD 20742

Host

Center for the Study of Business Ethics, Regulation & Crime (C-BERC), College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, and the Robert H. Smith School of Business

Speaker

Congressman Jamie Raskin

The 2022 Fishlinger Family Lecture

featuring

The Hon. Jamie Raskin
Congressman (D-MD), author, and professor of constitutional law who will be discussing "Ethical Leadership in Business and Politics."

Welcoming remarks will be presented by Distinguished University Professor Sally Simpson, Director of the Center for the Study of Business Ethics, Regulation & Crime (C-BERC) and Interim Chair of the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice. 

Reception to Follow

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About the speaker:

Congressman Jamie Raskin is the U.S. Representative for Maryland’s 8th Congressional District. He served as the Lead House Manager in the second Senate impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump, which ended with a 57-43 vote to convict the president for inciting a violent insurrection against the government to overthrow the 2020 presidential election. He serves on the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol. He is serving his third term on the House Judiciary, Oversight, and Administration Committees and is serving his second term on the Rules Committee. Prior to Congress, Raskin was a three-term State Senator in Maryland and a professor of constitutional law for more than a quarter-century at American University Washington College of Law. He is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Law School, where he served as an Editor of the Harvard Law Review. He has authored several books, including We the Students, the Washington Post best-seller Overruling Democracy: The Supreme Court versus the American People, and the New York Times number #1 best-seller Unthinkable: Trauma, Truth and the Trials of American Democracy (2022).

This event is sponsored by C-BERC, the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences, and the Robert H. Smith School of Business, with generous support from Matt Fishlinger, GVPT '07, and Bill Fishlinger, GVPT '71, and their families. 

For questions, please contact Amy Fluckiger at 301-314-1237 or aflick [at] umd.edu. 

Congressman Jamie Raskin photo