NEWTON, MA-- Boston College Law School Professor and former Dean Aviam Soifer recently presented the prestigious Joshua A. Guberman Lecture for 2000 at Brandeis University. The lecture, "Disabling the Americans with Disabilities Act: Judicial Activism and the Absence of 'Negative Capability'," was the fifteenth in a series that began in 1984.

Held on October 18, 2000, the lecture took place in Brandeis' Heller Lounge, and was jointly sponsored by the school's Florence Heller Graduate School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare, and the Legal Studies Program.