Epps Revisits Peyote Case, April 23
April 21, 2009
Contact: University Relations
Phone: 410.837.5739
Garrett Epps, professor in the University of Baltimore School of Law, will discuss his critically acclaimed book Peyote vs. the State: Religious Freedom on Trial on Thursday, April 23 at 6 p.m. in the school's Moot Court Room, 1415 Maryland Ave. The event is free and open to the public (attendance details below).
Epps, a former Washington Post reporter who teaches Constitutional Law as well as Creative Writing for Law Students, has written a new epilogue for his 2001 book, which follows a landmark Supreme Court case from its beginnings—a substance abuse counselor to Native Americans in Oregon is confronted by that state's attorney general in a legal dispute over the rights of natives to worship through the use of peyote—to the halls of power in Washington, D.C. The new epilogue, for a just-released paperback edition of the book, explores a retreat from the court's 1990 ruling.
James Fallows, national correspondent for the Atlantic Monthly, has described Peyote vs. the State as "dramatic, suspenseful, humane, and funny ... while managing to be highly informative about important principles of the law."
Epps will read from and discuss the book during this event. Space is limited; please R.S.V.P. by visiting this page. Contact the School of Law's Office of External Relations at lawevents@ubalt.edu with any questions.
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