http://news.wlu.eduNews stories from Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Virginia.20091106T05:00:0020091106T05:00:00http://www.wlu.edu/x36364.xml20091106T05:00:00falseRobin Fretwell Wilson, a professor of law at Washington and Lee University School of Law, has been named Class of 1958 Law Alumni Professor of Law.http://www.wlu.edu/x36103.xml20091026T04:00:00falseWashington and Lee University journalism professor Toni Locy, who spent 25 years covering legal issues for major newspapers, has created a course based on some of the great trials in American history.http://www.wlu.edu/x35840.xml20091013T04:00:00falseRichard B. Freeman, Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University, will give a lecture in the Johnson Lecture Series at Washington and Lee University on Monday, Nov. 9, at 7:30 p.m. in the Millhiser Moot Court Room in the Law School.http://www.wlu.edu/x36290.xml20091102T05:00:00falseTwo panels of attorneys, reporters, and pro sports executives will explore issues of sports, the law and the media during the third annual Reynolds Media, Courts and Law Symposium at Washington and Lee University on Nov. 11-12.http://www.wlu.edu/x36289.xml20091102T05:00:00falseWashington and Lee University’s Community Grants Committee would like to remind the community of its 2009-10 proposal evaluation schedule. Community Grants Proposals may be submitted at any time but are reviewed semiannually: at the end of the calendar year and at the end of the fiscal year. The deadline for submitting a proposal for the end of the 2009 calendar year is Monday, November 16, 2009.http://www.wlu.edu/x36273.xml20091101T04:00:00falseWashington and Lee University law professor Robin Fretwell Wilson published an opinion piece in the Nov. 1, 2009, edition of The Washington Post examining the District of Columbia's same sex marriage bill.http://www.wlu.edu/x36206.xml20091029T04:00:00falseThirty years after Iranian students, in the aftermath of the revolution of 1979, occupied the American Embassy and took American hostages, Hossein Sheiban, a professor of history and visiting scholar at Washington and Lee University, will give a talk that looks back over Iran's history and examines the country's situation today at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 5, in W&L's Northen Auditorium in the Leyburn Library.http://www.wlu.edu/x36205.xml20091029T04:00:00falseThis Saturday, Washington and Lee's Dining Services will provide students and their families with a taste of home cooking when they prepare three recipes submitted to the Recipes from Home contest by parents of W&L first-year students.http://www.wlu.edu/x36204.xml20091029T04:00:00falseThe Lenfest Center for the Arts at Washington and Lee University will present the MOMIX Ultimate Date event on Tuesday, Nov. 10, at 8:30 p.m. in the Keller Theatre, Lenfest Center. During this performance the audience will have the unique opportunity to be on stage with the dancers.http://www.wlu.edu/x36186.xml20091029T04:00:00falseSome big international names in the theater world will be attending the 10th National Symposium of Theater in Academe at Washington and Lee University from November 11-14.