News Release
UDM Law professor takes the stage in "12 Angry Men"
By day, Robert N. Brown teaches students at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law to be the best attorneys and judges they can possibly be, but next Friday night he'll be speaking to a different kind of audience.
A Constitutional Law Professor at UDM since 1975, Brown will take the stage, performing with the Chrysler Theatre SACC and Actors Theatre of Windsor for their 2008 legal benefit in a production of 12 Angry Men. The performance will take place on Friday, February 15 at 8 p.m.at the Chrysler Theatre in downtown Windsor. The cast consists primarily of lawyers from Canada, but includes two legal professions from the states. Brown and another attorney who needs no introduction, Geoffrey Fieger will complete the cast.
The performance will benefit several Canadian charities, including the Sexual Assault Crisis Centre, the 2008 Windsor International Fringe Festival and the Faculty of Law and Centre for Studies in Social Justice at the University of Windsor. An afterglow will follow the performance with a cash bar in the theatre lobby.
In 12 Angry Men, the defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide ifa young man is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open / shut case of murder soon becomes a mini-drama of each of the jurors.
A former chairman of the Aging and the Law Section of the Association of American Law Schools, Brown was also commissioner of the American Bar Association Commission on Legal Problems of the Elderly, a member of the Senior Justice Committee of the State Bar of Michigan, and director of the Detroit Area Agency on Aging. Healso serves as a Trustee of the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan and is a member of the Salvation Army's Advisory Board for Metropolitan Detroit, serving as vice-chairperson.
Tickets may be purchased from the Chrysler Theatre at http://www.chryslertheatre.com/or by calling 519-252-6579. For more information, contact Yvette Chapman at 313-596-0206 (chapmayv@udmercy.edu) or Professor Brown at 313-596-0219 brownrn@udmercy.edu)
Release date: February 08, 2008
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