
The Honorable Nelson A. Díaz Professorship in Law Annual Lectureship Latinx and the Law: A Conversation with ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero
Discussion and Reception
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Temple University Beasley School of Law – Moot Court Room
4:00 PM EST
Reception to Follow
about the event
The 2025 Honorable Nelson A. Díaz Professorship in Law Annual Lectureship will feature a conversation between Kean Family Dean Rachel Rebouché and ACLU Executive Director Anthony Romero about Mr. Romero’s experiences, achievements, and observations over the course of his 23-year tenure as leader of the American Civil Liberties Union.
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About the speaker

Anthony Romero
Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union
Anthony D. Romero is the executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, the nation’s premier defender of civil liberties. He took the helm of the organization just seven days before the September 11, 2001 attacks. Romero has been the longest-serving head of the 105-year-old organization since its founder, Roger Baldwin, stepped down in 1950.
Throughout his 23-year tenure, Romero has built the ACLU into a legal, political and advocacy juggernaut. He has presided over the most successful growth in the ACLU’s history – growing the organization twelvefold and making it the largest and most impactful legal and advocacy organization in the United States.
about the moderator

Rachel Rebouché
Kean Family Dean, Peter J. Liacouras Professor of Law
Rachel Rebouché is the Kean Family Dean of Temple University Beasley School of Law and the Peter J. Liacouras Professor of Law. Prior to her appointment as Dean, she was the Associate Dean for Research, a position she held from 2017 to 2021. She is also a Faculty Fellow at Temple’s Center for Public Health Law Research.
Dean Rebouché is a leading scholar in reproductive health law and family law. She is an author of Governance Feminism: An Introduction and an editor of Governance Feminism: Notes from the Field. She is also the editor of Feminist Judgments: Family Law Opinions Rewritten, published by Cambridge University Press, and an author of the sixth edition of the casebook, Family Law. In addition, she will join the fifth edition of the casebook, Contracts: Law in Action and recently co-edited a collection of essays for Law & Contemporary Problems on the pandemic’s effects on contract law.
HONORABLE NELSON A. DÍAZ

Honorable Nelson A. Díaz
The Honorable Nelson A. Díaz, is a distinguished lawyer, respected jurist, successful partner, exceptional public servant, Fortune 100 corporate director, activist, columnist and author. In 1972, he graduated from Temple University’s James Beasley School of Law and in 2021, he created the endowed Honorable Nelson A. Díaz Professorship in Law at Temple. Presently, he is a member of Temple University’s Board of Trustees, of Counsel at Dilworth Paxson and co-founder of a national nonprofit, Hispanics in Energy.
Mr. Díaz is a trailblazer who broke many barriers. He was the first Latino attorney to pass the Pennsylvania bar, the first Latino Judge in the history of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the first person of color to be selected Administrative Judge in the Court of Common Pleas, the first Puerto Rican White House Fellow serving Vice President Walter Mondale, the first Puerto Rican Japan Society Fellow, and the first minority General Counsel at United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). He is a proud co-founder of Black American Law Student Association (BALSA) at Temple University School of Law and co-founder of the Hispanic Bar Association of Pennsylvania. Judge Díaz served on the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Criminal Procedure Rules Committee and the Committee on Racial and Gender Bias.