Distinguished attorney Ira J. Kurzban will present”Immigration Law, Terrorism and Civil Rights”at noon Monday, Oct. 29, as part of the West Virginia University College of Laws Edward G. Donley Memorial Lectures. The free public lecture will be given in Room 157 of the WVU Law Center.

Kurzban, a partner in the law firm of Kurzban, Weinger and Tetzeli, P.A. of Miami, Fla., has litigated over 50 federal cases concerning the rights of aliens, including Jean v. Nelson, Commissioner v. Jean and McNary v. Haitian Refugee Center, Inc., which he argued before the U.S. Supreme Court.

He is past president and former general counsel of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, and has received national recognition for his work in the immigration field. He was named by the National Law Journal as one of the top 20 immigration lawyers in the United States and was cited by Best Lawyers in America (5th Edition) for his work in immigration and labor law. In 1986, he was also selected by Newsweek as one of 100 American heroes for his work on behalf of immigrants.

An adjunct faculty member in Immigration and Nationality Law at the University of Miami School of Law and Nova University School of Law, Kurzban has lectured and published extensively in the field of immigration law, including articles in the Harvard Law Review and San Diego Law Review. He is author of Kurzbans Immigration Law Sourcebook, the most widely used one-volume immigration treatise in the U.S.

The Donley Memorial Lectures are conducted annually under the direction of the faculty of the WVU College of Law. The purpose of these lectures is to bring to the university distinguished members of the legal profession to lecture in a field of current interest and development in the law.

The lectures are made possible through the income from a trust fund administered by the WVU Foundation. They were created in memory of Mr. Edward G. Donley by Eleanor T. Donley, his widow, and by Robert T. Donley, his son, now both deceased.

Edward G. Donley had a distinguished career as a lawyer who engaged in the active practice of law in Morgantown from the date of his graduation from the WVU College of Law in 1899, to his death on June 21, 1952. His life and career were marked by his outstanding contributions to law, to church, to civic and financial affairs of the community, and to the welfare and growth of WVU .