His lecture is titled "With Justice for All" and will be discussed at a Spectrum Roundtable held at 8 p.m. Feb. 28 at the Russell House.

The event is free for USC students, faculty, and staff. Tickets are available at the Russell House Information Desk with valid ID.

Tickets for $5 are available to the public at the Carolina Coliseum, any Capitol Tickets Box Office or at www.capitoltickets.com.

Dees is a co-founder and chief trial counsel for the Southern Poverty Law Center, a non-profit organization whose goal is to combat racism and hate.

After graduating from the University of Alabama School of Law in 1960, Dees became a lawyer and book publisher. In 1971, Dees, along with fellow lawyer Joseph J. Levin Jr. and civil rights activitist Julian Bond, started the Southern Poverty Law Center. Since that time, the center has filed numerous suits against hate groups. Dees argues the center's cases as chief trial counsel.

This marks the second lecture for the Spectrum series, which began in March 2005 with speaker William S. Cohen, secretary of defense under Bill Clinton.

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