U.S. Congressman F. James Sensenbrenner of the Fifth Congressional District of Wisconsin presented a lecture to a full audience of faculty, students, and legal professionals at the UW Law School on October 12, 2009.
                    
Sensenbrenner’s presentation, sponsored by the Federalist Law Student Association at the Law School, focused on the Patriot Act, which he introduced in the House as a response to the terrorist acts of September 11, 2001, and three key provisions of which are due to expire at the end of 2009.

Sensenbrenner responded to a broad range of audience questions after his talk, dealing with issues including Afghanistan, antitrust, Guantanamo, energy resources, intellectual property, and federal judicial appointments.

Sensenbrenner is a graduate of the UW Law School’s Class of 1968. In the audience at the lecture were several of Congressman’s classmates, a surprise which delighted the Congressman.

Following the lecture, Sensenbrenner proceeded to a second campus engagement: a visit to the Newton Tree that he had donated to the University. The tree is a certified descendant of the original tree from which the famous apple fell on English scientist Isaac Newton, leading to Newton’s theory of gravity.

Accompanied by Law School Dean Ken Davis and UW-Madison Chancellor Carolyn (Biddy) Martin, Sensenbrenner was met at the university’s Botany Garden by Dr. Mohammad Mehdi Fayyaz, Director of Greenhouses and the Botanical Garden, and his horticultural technician James Adams, who presented Sensenbrenner with a clay pot full of apples from the tree and a Newton Apple Pie baked from the tree’s fruit by Violet Kral DeWind (mother of Law School Clinical Associate Professor Pete DeWind).

To download a video of Sensenbrenner's Law School lecture, click here.



  

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