FARMINGTON – The Franklin County Bar Association will sponsor a symposium on legal issues that arise when the United States occupies foreign lands. It will be held from 7 to 9 p.m. tonight at Lincoln Auditorium of Robert Learning Center at the University of Maine at Farmington. It’s free and public.
Principal speaker is Col. Peter Golding, a full-time Judge Advocate with the Maine National Guard at Camp Keyes in Augusta, and Louis Sell, a lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences and Business at the University of Maine at Farmington.
Sell is a former U.S. foreign service who spent eight years in the former Yugoslavia between 1974 and 2000, was a member of the International Crisis Group, and participated in the Dayton Peace Conference.
Golding, a Farmington native who served in the military more than 20 years, received a law degree from Vermont Law School and studied at the Army War College in Carlisle, Pa.
The symposium will be moderated by Richard Morton, a Farmington attorney and former military lawyer.
After the speakers initial presentations, there will be opportunity for the audience to raise questions for the moderator to pass on to the two speakers. Continuing Legal Education credits have been pre-approved.
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