2004-05 Symposium

Equality, Privacy and Lesbian and Gay Rights After Lawrence v. Texas

February 24-25, 2005

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Charles Ogletree - Keynote Speaker
Harvard Law School Jesse Climenko Professor of Law and Founding and Executive Director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice

Outspoken civil rights attorney and educator Charles Ogletree earned both his bachelor's and master's degree in political science from Stanford University in the early 1970's. He was awarded his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1978. Today, he serves as the Jesse Climenko professor of law and vice dean for Clinical Programs at Harvard Law School, and has recently been appointed director of the new Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard University.

Ogletree has been named one of the 100 Most Influential Lawyers in America by The National Law Journal. He also is the recipient of numerous awards and honorary degrees including the NAACP's Universal Humanitarian Award. Ogletree's career has focused on securing equal rights for everyone with works including All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education, and Brown at 50, the Unfinished Legacy.

Panelists

• Dr. Carl Bankston, Professor of Sociology and Director of Graduate Studies, Tulane University
• Dr. Jack Boger, Professor of Law, Director, Center of Civil Rights, University of North Carolina
• Dr. Beatrice Bridglall, Assistant Director, Institute for Urban and Minority Education, Columbia University
• Dr. Kevin Brown, Professor of Law, Indiana University
• Dr. Carol Burris, Principal, Southside High School, East Rockaway, New York
• Dr. Stephen Caldas, Professor of Education, University of Louisiana, Lafayette
• John Denvir, Professor of Law, University of San Francisco
• Dr. Susan Eaton, Author and independent scholar, former Associate Director, Harvard Project on School Desegregation
• Joel Goldstein, Professor of Law, Saint Louis University
• Dr. Edmond Gordon, Director, Institute for Urban and Minority Education, Columbia University
• Dr. Chris Hansen, Senior National Staff Counsel, ACLU
• Dr. Willis Hawley, Professor of Education and Public Affairs, University of Maryland
• Dr. Roslyn Mickelson, Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
• Dr. Rachael Moran, Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley
• Dr. Mica Pollock, Assistant Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
• Miriam Rokeach, Policy Consultant in Education, Board President, Center for Youth Development Through Law
• Celia Ruiz, Attorney, Ruiz & Seprow, Emerysville, CA
• Dr. Jim Ryan, Professor of Law and Associate Dean, University of Maryland
• Dr. Amy Stuart Wells, Professor of Sociology and Education, Columbia University

Moderators

• Katherine Hunt Federle, Professor of Law, Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University; Director, Justice For Children Project
• Peter Shane, Joseph S. Platt/Porter Wright Morris & Arthur Professor of Law, Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University; Director, Center for Law, Policy, and Social Science
• Daniel Tokaji, Assistant Professor of Law, Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University
• Vincene Verdun, Assistant Professor of Law, Moritz College of Law, The Ohio State University