2007-08 Symposium

The School Desegregation Cases and the Uncertain Future of Racial Equality

February 21-22, 2008 | Barrister Club and Saxbe Auditorium

• Live Webcast (stream will begin when event begins)

Keynote Speakers

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Erwin Chemerinsky
Alston & Bird Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science
Duke University
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Erwin Chemerinsky, a nationally renowned professor of constitutional law and federal civil procedure at Duke University, was named founding dean of the Donald Bren School of Law at the University of California, Irvine, effective July 1, 2008. Chemerinsky is the author of four books: Federal Jurisdiction (2007), Constitutional Law: Principles and Policies (2006), Constitutional Law (2005), and Interpreting the Constitution (1987). He is the author of more than 100 articles that have appeared in journals such as the Harvard Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Northwestern Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Law Review, Stanford Law Review and Yale Law Journal. In 2005, he was named by Legal Affairs as one of the "top 20 legal thinkers in America." He frequently argues appellate cases, including in the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Courts of Appeals, and has testified frequently before congressional and state legislative committees. He received his bachelor’s from Northwestern University and J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Friday, February 22, 2008

Charles Ogletree
Jesse Climenko Professor of Law
Harvard Law School
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Charles Ogletree is a prominent legal theorist who has made an international reputation by taking a hard look at complex issues of law and by working to secure the rights guaranteed by the Constitution for everyone equally under the law. In addition to his appointment as Jesse Climenko Professor of Law, Ogletree is the Founding and Executive Director of Harvard Law School's new Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice, named in honor of the visionary lawyer who spearheaded the litigation in Brown v. Board of Education. The Institute opened in September 2005, and focuses on a variety of issues relating to race and justice, and will sponsor research, hold conferences, and provide policy analysis. In addition to numerous influential books and law review articles, Ogletree's commentaries on a broad range of timely and important issues have appeared in the editorial pages of the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Boston Globe, among other national newspapers. Ogletree earned an M.A. and B.A. from Stanford University, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Participants

• Angelo N. Ancheta, Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the Katharine & George Alexander Community Law Center, Santa Clara University School of Law
• Maria J. Blanco, Executive Director, Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity & Diversity, Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley
• Kevin D. Brown, Professor of Law, Indiana University School of Law
• Ruth Colker, Heck Faust Memorial Chair in Constitutional Law, The Ohio State University Michael Moritz College of Law
• Lia Epperson, Assistant Professor of Law, Santa Clara University School of Law
• Katherine Hunt Federle, Professor of Law, Director of Justice for Children Project, Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Law and Policy, The Ohio State University Michael Moritz College of Law
• Barbara Flagg, Professor of Law, Washington University School of Law
• Erica Frankenberg, Post-doctoral Fellow, Michigan State University
• Joel Goldstein, Vincent C. Immel Professor of Law, Saint Louis University School of Law
• Mark Graber, Professor of Law and Government, University of Maryland School of Law
• Cheryl Harris , Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
• Danielle R. Holley-Walker, Assistant Professor of Law, University of South Carolina Law School
• Garry W. Jenkins, Assistant Professor of Law, The Ohio State University Michael Moritz College of Law
• Richard Kahlenberg, Senior Fellow, The Century Foundation
• Charles Lawrence, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
• William P. Marshall, Solicitor General, Ohio Attorney General’s Office
• Roslyn Mickelson, Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
• Rachel Moran, Robert D. and Leslie-Kay Raven Professor of Law, Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley
• Mica Pollock, Associate Professor of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
• john a. powell, Gregory H. Williams Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, The Ohio State University Michael Moritz College of Law; Executive Director, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
• Reva Siegel, Deputy Dean and Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law, Yale Law School
• Peter M. Shane, Jacob E. Davis and Jacob E. Davis II Chair in Law, The Ohio State University Michael Moritz College of Law
• Daniel P. Tokaji, Associate Professor of Law, The Ohio State University Michael Moritz College of Law
• Amy Stuart Wells , Professor of Sociology and Education, Columbia University Teachers College