OLLI 0167 - Reflecting on Current Events
Course Description
This course focuses on current events and “breaking news” in areas of general public interest--including government operations and decision-making; civil and human rights advocacies; promotions of the Rule of Law domestically and internationally; equal protection and due process challenges; law enforcement and community-based policing; and prosecutorial and judicial proceedings, among many others. Based principally on invocations and assessments of news reporting and publicly-available information, participants are afforded opportunities for a-political, non-partisan consideration of the major justice-animated events of our times, including opportunities for questions and observations about them.
Presenter(s)
Jim Santelle
For over 30 years, James Santelle served as a criminal prosecutor and civil litigator with the United States Department of Justice, including over six years as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin. During his tenure, he worked in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Washington, D.C. in association with some nine Attorneys General, including Janet Reno, Richard Thornburgh, Loretta Lynch, John Ashcroft, Eric Holder, and Alberto Gonzales; in the term of the latter, he was the Justice Attache and Rule of Law Coordinator for the United States Mission in the Republic of Iraq. Mr. Santelle is a graduate of Marquette University (English & History) and of the University of Chicago Law School.