l0:20-12:00 am Sunday, January l6, 2005 - Congregation Beth Israel
Narratives of Retributive and Non-Retributive Justice and Genocide
Professor William Schabas - "Challenges to Reconciliation: The Truth Commission of Sierra Leone"
Professor Terry Phelps - "The Far Side of Revenge: Quilts, Plays, Museums, and Truth Reports"
Wanda M. Akin, Esq. - "Literary Realism and Is Justice 'On the Cheap' Really Just?: A Report from the Defense on the Special Court for Sierra Leone"
Raymond M. Brown, Esq. - "You have 48 hours to Turn Yourself In! A Meditation on Choice, 'Otherness' and Atrocities"
Allan Gerson, Esq. - "Accountability: From Nazis to Facilitators of 9/11. The Banality of Evil Writ Large"

Trial Lawyer, Teacher, Legal Journalist

He is a partner, with his father in the law firm of Brown and Brown, a Visiting Professor and Research Scholar at Seton Hall University Law School, and Host of the Emmy Award winning New Jersey Program "Due Process." He also hosts the nationally syndicated public television program "Inside the Law" and has served as a commentator on scores of radio and television programs. Additionally he is a writer for legal and general interest publications and lecturer who has appeared in 25 states and several foreign countries.

Brown is a member of the New Jersey and New York Bars and has handled a wide variety of criminal and civil matters representing individuals and corporations. He has appeared in high profile trials including the 9-month trial of former Labor Secretary Raymond J. Donovan. He has appeared in courts in 12 states and conducted investigations throughout the US and in Kenya, El Salvador, Colombia, Cayman Islands, Switzerland, Bahamas, and the United Kingdom. He was recently designated a "Qualified Counsel" to appear before the Special Court for Sierra Leone. He is also a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers who has served on New Jersey Supreme Court Committees.

Brown has taught International Criminal Law in the Seton Hall/American University Program at Cairo, Egypt and at Seton Hall University School of Law and of Diplomacy and International Relations. Brown has spoken on over 200 occasions to criminal and civil lawyers, law enforcement personnel and judges, students and a variety of citizen. His subjects have included trial advocacy, ethics, race and the criminal justice system, human rights and international law, the art of persuasion, and educational and drug policy.

As the Host of NJN's Due Process he has examined many legal issues affecting New Jersey and has been a Telly Award Finalist and received 6 Emmy Awards as well as the Lincoln University "Unity Award" for Public Affairs/Social Issues Reporting. In his first year as Host of "Inside the Law" he covered several aspects of international criminal law.

Brown served for four years as an anchor at Court TV covering trials, appeals and impeachment hearings. In coverage of the proceedings of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia he reported from the Hague and anchored "War Crimes on Trial," which also anticipated the trials of the International Tribunal for Rwanda. He also hosted the program "On Appeal."

Brown served as Guest Host on Tavis Smiley's BET-Tonight and has moderated a series of symposia telecast on C-Span reflecting African-American thought on a variety of policy issues, the most recent of which focused on the consequences of "9-11." Brown has also been a guest on many television and radio programs including ABC's World News Tonight Rivera Live, and the BBC.