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The Center for the Study of Race and Law coordinates and promotes the substantial array of existing Law School programs on race and law, and enhances these offerings by sponsoring additional programs, often in partnership with interested student organizations. Recent center-sponsored events include:
THE SUPREME COURT, SOCIAL CHANGE AND POLITICAL BACKLASH, with Harvard Law School Professor Michael Klarman
REPRESENTING CHILDREN: DEALING WITH RACIAL INEQUALITIES IN SCHOOLS AND IN THE JUVENILE JUSTICE SYSTEM, with Robert Schwartz, co-founder and executive director of the Juvenile Law Center
THE FINAL DAYS OF MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., (with civil rights leader and then-UVA professor Julian Bond and Michael Cody ’61) and
WHAT WE CAN LEARN ABOUT THE LAW FROM THE LIFE OF DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR., (with two UVA law professors) were part of a series of events in January 2012 remembering King’s legacy
RACE, INEQUALITY AND THE FUTURE OF MULTIRACIAL POLITICS, with Georgetown law professor Sheryll Cashin
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION REVISITED: FISHER V. UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, Connerly, the founder and president of the American Civil Rights Institute, and UVA law professor Kim Forde-Mazrui on the legality of affirmative action in higher education
INCREASING DIVERSITY WITHIN THE LEGAL PROFESSION, a conference featuring lectures by NAACP General Counsel Kim Keenan ’87 and Virginia Supreme Court Justices S. Bernard Goodwyn ’86 and Cleo Powell ’82
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