Peoria, IL (February 25, 2014) “Constitutional Orphan: The 19th Amendment and Gender Equality” is the subject of a lecture at Bradley University on March 5 at 7:00 p.m. in Neumiller Lecture Hall in Bradley Hall.

Paula Monopoli, Professor of Law at the University of Maryland School of Law where she founded the Women, Leadership & Equality Program in 2003, will give the lecture which is free and open to the public. Professor Monopoli received her B.A, cum laude, from Yale College in 1980, and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1983. Prior to entering academia, she practiced law at Hawkins, Delafield and Wood, Holland & Knight and Hill & Barlow.

The event is sponsored by Women’s Studies and the Intellectual and Cultural Activities Committee at Bradley.