| Posted
February 11, 2004
Impact of Brown v. Board of Education to
Be Examined at Law School Symposium | Schedule
Jack Greenberg, one of the NAACP lawyers who successfully argued Brown
v. Board of Education, the landmark 1954 Supreme Court case
that ended racial segregation in America's public schools, will give
the keynote address at a University of Virginia School of Law symposium
February 20-21 that will examine the ruling's impact from the vantage
point of its 50th anniversary. The case had a profound effect on
American society and gave impetus to the nascent Civil Rights movement.
Sponsored by the Virginia
Law Review and the Center
for the Study of Race and Law, the symposium
will feature distinguished national scholars on three panels that
will focus on the case's impact on American society and law.
Greenberg, now a professor at Columbia University will speak at 4:15
p.m., February 20, in Caplin Pavilion. Immediately following his address,
the first panel will address Brown's effect on school integration.
The second panel, meeting Saturday at 10:30 a.m., will focus on Brown's impact
on the Civil Rights movement. The final panel, beginning at 1:15 p.m.
on Saturday, will discuss Brown's implications for the interpretation
of the Constitution.
For more information or to register, contact lawrev@virginia.edu
Brown Symposium Schedule
All events held in Caplin Pavilion except where
noted.
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY
20 |
| 4:15 p.m. |
WELCOME
KEYNOTE ADDRESS by Jack Greenberg, Professor
of Law at Columbia University, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational
Fund, 1949-1984. |
| 5:00 p.m. |
BROWN AND SCHOOL INTEGRATION
- Kevin D. Brown, Professor of Law and Afro-American
Studies at the University of Indiana
- Gary Orfield, Professor of Education and
Social Policy at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and
Director of the Harvard Project on School Desegregation, and
Codirector of the Harvard Civil Rights Project
- James
E. Ryan, William L. Matheson & Robert
M. Morgenthau Distinguished Professor of Law at the University
of Virginia
- Amy Stuart Wells, Professor of Sociology
and Education at Columbia University's Teachers College
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| SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21 |
| 10:30 a.m. |
BROWN AND THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- Michael
J. Klarman, James Monroe Distinguished Professor
of Law, Albert C. Tate Research Professor, and Professor
of History at the University of Virginia
- Kara M. Turner, Assistant Dean, College
of Liberal Arts at Morgan State University
- Mark Tushnet, Carmack Waterhouse Professor
of Constitutional Law at Georgetown University
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| 12:00 p.m. |
LUNCH in Scott Commons |
| 1:15 p.m. |
BROWN AND CONSTITUTIONAL THEORY
- Jack M. Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional
Law and the First Amendment at Yale University
- John
C. Harrison, David Lurton Massee, Jr., Professor
of Law
Horace W. Goldsmith Research Professor
- Akhil R. Amar, Southmayd Professor of
Law at Yale University
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