Ohio Northern University’s Pettit College of Law will present the 2016 Carhart Program in Legal Ethics in the Celebrezze Large Moot Court Room on Thursday, April 21, at noon. The program will feature “Zealous Advocacy and Testing Boundaries: The Role of a Criminal Defender” presented by Judge Amul R. Thapar, United States district judge for the Eastern District of Kentucky.
This event is open to the public.
Thapar is the country’s first South Asian Article III judge. President George W. Bush nominated him to the federal bench on May 24, 2007, and the United States Senate confirmed him by unanimous consent on Dec. 13, 2007.