ACLU of Kentucky

Central Kentucky Civil Liberties Union (CKCLU) Program

 Title:  Civil Liberties Issues Before the U.S. Supreme Court

Date/Time:  Wednesday, December 7, 2011, 7:00 p.m.

Place:   Temple Adath Israel

124 North Ashland Avenue

Lexington, KY 40502

(859) 269-2979

Panelists:

Paul Salamanca

Wyatt, Tarrant and Combs Professor of Law, UK College of Law

Allison Connelly

Director of the UK Legal Clinic and Associate Clinical Professor of Law, UK College of Law

Roberta M. Harding

William L. Matthews Professor of Law, UK College of Law

Nicole Huberfield

Galion & Baker Professor of Law, UK College of Law

CLEs (Continuing Legal Education Units): pending  

Panelist bios:

Paul E. Salamanca

Paul E. Salamanca is the Wyatt, Tarrant and Combs Professor of Law. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1983 and Boston College Law School in 1989, where he was a note editor for the Boston College Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif.

Professor Salamanca served as a law clerk to Judge David H. Souter of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and subsequently clerked for Justice Souter on the U.S. Supreme Court. He practiced law with the firm of Debevoise & Plimpton in New York from 1991 to 1994 and was a visiting assistant professor of law at Loyola University School of Law in New Orleans before joining the faculty at UK in June 1995.

Professor Salamanca writes in the areas of separation of powers, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and privacy. He has published articles on these subjects in the University of Cincinnati Law Review, the Missouri Law Review, the Georgia Law Review and the Kentucky Law Journal, among other places

Allison Connelly

Allison Connelly, an associate clinical professor of law, joined the faculty in 1996 as the first Director of the College's Legal Clinic. Prior to joining the law school, she spent 13 years as a state public defender providing direct representation, including death penalty representation, to needy individuals at all levels of the criminal justice system. She rose through the ranks to become the first female Kentucky Public Advocate, the head of Kentucky's statewide public defender system, and has more than twelve published appellate decisions to her credit. She received her B.A. degree from the University of Kentucky and her J.D. degree from the University of Kentucky College of Law.

Professor Connelly also directs the College’s Legal Writing Program, teaches litigation skills, criminal procedure and criminal trial process, and is the Director of the Kentucky Legal Education Opportunity (KLEO) Summer Institute. She is the founder of the Kentucky Intrastate Mock Trial Competition, and is also the coach of the College’s highly successful trial teams, which include eight nationally ranked trial teams in the last twelve years. She has received numerous awards including the Chancellor's Outstanding Teaching Award in 2001, the 2006 Chief Justice’s Special Service Award for her distinguished service to the Court of Justice as a legal educator, and the 2008 Citizen-Lawyer Award from the Fayette County Bar Association.

Most recently, she was one of six professors recognized for outstanding teaching and honored with the 2009 UK Alumni Association Great Teacher Award. Nominations are made by students for this award, the oldest continuous award to recognize teaching at UK. 

Roberta M. Harding

Roberta M. Harding joined the faculty in 1991. She received her undergraduate degree from the University of San Francisco and her law degree from the Harvard Law School. At Harvard, she was a finalist in the Ames Moot Court Competition. Prior to teaching law, Professor Harding was a litigator at Pillsbury, Madison and Sutro and at McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen, both located in San Francisco, California. She also lived in Rome, Italy, for two years where she owned her own business. Her primary teaching interests include capital punishment, criminal law, human rights, and popular culture.

Her articles on capital punishment, law and film and comparative prisoners' rights have been University of San Francisco Law Review, Catholic University Law Review, the University of Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, the Boston University Public Interest Journal, the Buffalo Law Review, and the New England Journal on Criminal and Civil Confinement. She lectures domestically and internationally on capital punishment. Professor Harding is the faculty supervisor of the College of Law's Innocence Project Externship.

Nicole Huberfield 

Nicole Huberfeld is the Gallion & Baker Associate Professor of Law and a Bioethics Associate in the College of Medicine. She joined the College of Law faculty in 2005 and teaches Constitutional Law I, Healthcare Organizations and Finance, Bioethical Issues in the Law, and Healthcare Law and Policy Seminar. Professor Huberfeld’s scholarship focuses on the cross-section of constitutional law and federal healthcare programs with a particular interest in federalism and Spending Clause jurisprudence. Professor Huberfeld was the 2008 recipient of the Duncan Teaching Award for outstanding teaching.

Previously, Professor Huberfeld was the Health Law Faculty Fellow at Seton Hall Law School where she taught a variety of courses in the Health Law and Policy Program. She also created and was Director of the Health Care Compliance Certification Program at Seton Hall Law School. While in private practice in New Jersey and New York, Professor Huberfeld advised clients on a variety of regulatory and transactional healthcare issues. She is an active member of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics and the American Health Lawyers Association.

Professor Huberfeld received her J.D., cum laude, from Seton Hall Law School in 1998, where she was Book Review Editor for Seton Hall Law Review and recipient of the National Association of Women Lawyers Outstanding Woman Law Graduate Award and the Raymond DelTufo Constitutional Law Award. She received her B.A. in history from the University of Pennsylvania in 1995, where she was a recipient of the Award of the Trustees Council of Penn Women.