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The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. should be remembered as a symbol of a worldwide social movement, not just as a civil rights leader, a leading King scholar and historian said Monday at the Law School.
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. should be remembered as a symbol of a worldwide social movement, not just as a civil rights leader, a leading King scholar and historian said Monday at the Law School.
A team of University of Virginia law professors is teaching a new January Term course that examines how the law affected Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement.
Clayborne Carson, editor of "The Autobiography of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.," will speak Jan. 17 at 4 p.m. in the University of Virginia School of Law's Caplin Pavilion.
Professor Alex Johnson recently became the new director of the Law School's Center for the Study of Race and Law.
University of Virginia law professor Alex Johnson, former chair of the Law School Admissions Council and former dean of Minnesota Law School, discusses the black/white LSAT score gap and why law schools are not admitting African-American students at a rate proportional to the test-taking po
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizers of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, helped shape the country’s political future, co-founder Julian Bond said during a conference at the Law School on Friday.
Rev. Charles Sherrod delivers a keynote address at "50 Years After the Sit-Ins: Reflecting on the Role of Protest in Social Movements and Law Reform."
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, one of the principal organizers of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s, helped shape the country's political future, co-founder Julian Bond said during a conference at the Law School on Friday.
Civil Rights Movement leaders Julian Bond and Charles Sherrod will offer keynote lectures at a conference marking the 50th anniversary of the sit-in movement Friday and Saturday at the Law School.
Professor Tomiko Brown-Nagin and Edward Polk of Foley & Lardner spoke about diversity and its importance in law schools and legal careers Sept. 17 in Caplin Pavilion.
Jordan Lane never expected to have tea with the Syrian ambassador to the United States or win "best brief" in a moot court competition, but those were just two of the opportunities made possible by her summer internship at the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.
Richard Cohen '79 spoke to alumni at Reunion Weekend about race relations and hate crimes following the election of President Barack Obama.
Stephen Black, founder of Impact Alabama and grandson of Justice Hugo Black, and Professor Daniel Nagin, the director of the Family Resource Clinic, present "Yes We Can? Race, Poverty and Progress in America."
A Law School team won the National Black Law Students Association Mock Trial Competition last week in Irvine, Calif., and other students either won awards or earned positions in the organization's national leadership.
Keenan, president-elect of the Washington, D.C., Bar spoke about life after law school during a lunch sponsored by the Black Law Students Association.
Research indicates that marriage is good for society, but there is a pronounced racial divide in the marriage rates and no easy answers on what actions — if any — government should take to rectify it, a panel of experts said Wednesday at the Law School.
Research indicates that marriage is good for society, but there is a pronounced racial divide in the marriage rates and no easy answers on what actions — if any — government should take to rectify it, a panel of experts said Wednesday at the Law School.
Law students, faculty and staff are showing their promise to embrace diversity today by wearing T-shirts they received after signing the third annual diversity pledge.
The election of the country's first black president could have dramatic implications for the identity of African Americans, visiting Law School professor Guy-Uriel Charles said Thursday at a Center for the Study of Race and Law event.
The election of the country's first black president could have dramatic implications for the identity of African Americans, visiting Law School professor Guy-Uriel Charles said Thursday at a Center for the Study of Race and Law event.
Two legislative staffers spoke about their efforts to advance racial reconciliation through political means at an event sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race and Law on Nov. 12. With Keenan Keller (pictured), counsel for Rep.
Winston Wilkinson, director of the Office of Civil Rights for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, spoke to students Thursday about race and Mormonism during an event sponsored by the Black Law Students Association and the Rex E. Lee Society.
Sometimes when other African Americans learn he is a Republican Mormon who now lives in Utah, Winston Wilkinson gets a startled reception.
Ending affirmative action in recruiting students to U.S. law schools would come at an unacceptable cost, said Law School professor Alex Johnson Thursday at a resident faculty speaker series event sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race and Law.
Ending affirmative action in recruiting students to U.S. law schools would come at an unacceptable cost, said Law School professor Alex Johnson Thursday at a resident faculty speaker series event sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race and Law.
A panel sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race and Law discusses Law School Professor Risa Goluboff's new book, "The Lost Promise of Civil Rights." Panelists include Goluboff; Danny Greenberg of Schulte, Roth & Zabel LLP; and Professor Tomiko Brown-Nagin.
Prof. Klarman lectures about his newly released book, "Unfinished Business."
In his new book, "Unfinished Business: Racial Equality in American History," Virginia law professor Michael Klarman traces the long and turbulent history of race relations in America.
U.S. criminal justice policies over the past few decades have unfairly affected black Americans, charged Marc Mauer, executive director of The Sentencing Project, during a talk to students Oct. 30 at the Law School.
Professor Brandon Garrett spoke about his groundbreaking research on DNA testing to prove wrongful convictions and the U.S. criminal justice system’s faulty appeals process at a Sept. 24 event at the Law School.
Professor Brandon Garrett spoke about his groundbreaking research on DNA testing to prove wrongful convictions and the U.S. criminal justice system’s faulty appeals process at a Sept. 24 event at the Law School.
Richard Banks, a law professor at Stanford, spoke to Law School students Sept. 21 about the problems that arise from the blurred boundary between discriminatory racial profiling and the more acceptable suspect description reliance in the post Sept. 11 world.
Richard Banks, a law professor at Stanford, spoke to Law School students Sept. 21 about the problems that arise from the blurred boundary between discriminatory racial profiling and the more acceptable suspect description reliance in the post Sept. 11 world.
The late Oliver W. Hill Sr., esteemed civil rights attorney, was honored for his integral role in the civil rights movement at a Law School event Sept. 13 in Caplin Pavilion.
The late Oliver W. Hill Sr., esteemed civil rights attorney, was honored for his integral role in the civil rights movement at a Law School event Sept. 13 in Caplin Pavilion.
With one year as assistant director of the Center for the Study of Race and Law under his belt, Tim Lovelace '06 has begun to realize the goals he set out to accomplish in his role.
Students at Virginia Law and across the country today began two days of action calling for the restoration of habeas corpus and fair hearings for the almost 400 detainees who remain at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Virginia Gov. Timothy Kaine offered law students guidance on how to pursue a career in public service during his keynote address at the eighth annual student-organized Conference on Public Service and the Law in Caplin Auditorium Saturday.
Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine will deliver the keynote address at this year's Conference on Public Service and the Law, to be held Friday and Saturday, Feb. 16 and 17, at the Law School.
Rita Simon, professor of public affairs at American University and author of more than 50 books, spoke Friday about her influential research showing that most children who are adopted into families of a different race are well-adjusted and content.
Lawyers occupy a special place in society, as the representatives of the profession that represents the rights of the privileged, the underprivileged, the many, and the few.
Lawyers occupy a special place in society, as the representatives of the profession that represents the rights of the privileged, the underprivileged, the many, and the few.
During the current Supreme Court term, justices will consider a pair of cases that could determine whether race will be a continuing factor in assigning students to specific schools at the elementary and secondary level. Conventional wisdom holds that there is a substantial benefit to minority students when they learn in integrated schools. Recent studies, however, suggest that may not necessarily be true, said Yale law professor Richard Brooks, who explained the findings of a new body of statistical analysis in an Oct. 3 event at the Law School.
It took a moment to sink in when the verdict was read, but Earl Washington Jr. knew things were going to go his way when the jury agreed with his claim that a police officer fabricated evidence in Washington's criminal trial.
The Law School will be offering several new clinics during the next academic year, including the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, one of only a handful in law schools nationwide that focus on live Supreme Court cases.
Laws don't protect children from abuse in Iran and a lack of information on the problem inhibits reform on the issue, said Sara Shapouri '05, who returned to the Law School to detail her experiences working as a Monroe Leigh Fellow.
Race should not be considered a risk factor in determining whether someone is likely to commit a violent crime in the future, Professor John Monahan said at a talk sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race and Law March 15.
At the time, Johnson's case was one of a string of incidents of police violence against African Americans-police officers shot and killed Amadou Diallo in 1999, and brutally tortured Abner Louima in 1997 — that brought accusations of racial profiling against the New York City police department, as well as calls for reform nationwide. Individual cases succeeded in winning settlements, but class-action lawsuits had little chance of winning, explained Professor Brandon Garrett at a Center for the Study of Race and Law talk Feb. 15.
Although political pressure, lawsuits, and even the U.S. Department of Justice helped initiate the statistical tracking of racial profiling, police also may have discovered something that helped them change their ways, according to Professor Brandon Garrett.
On June 4, 1982, a young housewife named Linda Williams, three small children in tow, returned to her Culpeper apartment after an evening errand to 7-Eleven.
America's first restrictive federal immigration law used rhetoric about prostitution and polygamy to accomplish a hidden agenda of racial exclusion against Chinese immigrants, according to law professor Kerry Abrams, who spoke Wednesday at a lecture sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race and Law and the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (APALSA).
Legal forms of sex discrimination still exist in the military and in private employment, leaving women at a disadvantage in the workplace, law professor Anne Coughlin said during a Women of Color brown-bag lunch Oct. 31.
Brown v. Board of Education, the landmark 1954 school desegregation case often hailed for ushering in the civil rights era and striking a fatal blow to Jim Crow, may have helped perpetuate material inequalities between black and white Americans, according to law professor Risa Goluboff, who presented her research on pre- Brown civil rights strategies at a lecture sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race and Law Oct. 26.
Recent findings in implicit social cognition (ISC) — a science that measures people's subconscious biases — can provide a scientific basis for justifying and revising affirmative action, according to Jerry Kang, a UCLA law professor who explained his "behavioral realist" model of affirmative action at an Oct. 21 talk sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race and Law.
Advocates for racial and ethnic diversity in public schools should find their work easier with a guide to relevant legal and policy issues jointly prepared by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF), the Center for the Study of Race and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law, and Harvard University's Civil Rights Project.
Professor Kim Forde-Mazrui opened the doors of his Race and Law seminar to the public in an effort to bring greater understanding of recent incidents of racially motivated hate speech at the University and suggest possible legal responses, at a March 2 event sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race and Law and the Black Law Students Association.
While working for a downtown Boston law firm after college, Robin Runge found her calling.
President Lyndon Baines Johnson and civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr. were virtually co-conspirators in the critical months leading to the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act according to Nick Kotz, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting while a reporter for The Washington Post.
As the civil rights era recedes into history, younger Americans in particular fail to appreciate the courage of black leaders who challenged segregated society, law professor Michael Klarman, author of From Jim Crow to Civil Rights, The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality, told the audience at a Feb. 2 talk sponsored by the Black Law Students Association to kick off the Law School's observation of Black History Month.
Federal tax laws that hurt dual-income married couples disproportionately hurt African-American households, said visiting law professor Dorothy Brown.
Affirmative action programs corrode minorities' long-term aspirations and should be abandoned because they violate basic American democratic values of equality and merit, according to University of Michigan philosophy professor Carl Cohen.
The number of black lawyers in Virginia rose steadily during Reconstruction, when there were virtually no criteria for admission to the bar, but stagnated once the state passed its Jim Crow constitution in 1902, visiting law professor J. Gordon Hylton told a small group on hand Oct. 13 for a student/faculty workshop sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race and Law.
Law students and faculty packed into Caplin Pavilion Sept. 3 to hear professors Elizabeth Magill, Stephen Smith, and Law School Dean John Jeffries assess the rulings of the last session of the Supreme Court, a debriefing that customarily launches a new academic year.
As a federal judge in the Southern District of New York, Judge Denny Chin sees some of the most cutting-edge cases in the country, so much so that three of his cases were used as plots for the popular Law and Order television series.
Law professor Mildred Robinson remembers clearly the day the Supreme Court handed down the Brown vs. Board of Education decision ruling that "separate but equal" schools violated the 14th Amendment.
Two weeks before they meet at the U.S. Supreme Court for a fateful showdown on affirmative action admissions policies at the nation's public universities, the opposing sides in Grutter v. Bollinger held a pretrial scrimmage at the Law School March 15 as the main event of the 4th annual Conference on Public Service and the Law.
With politicians playing fast and loose with public funds and the accounting industry severely weakened by Enron and other scandals, the world will increasingly turn to lawyers to deal with issues presented by globalization because of the foundation in ethics and problem-solving they receive in law school, said American Bar Association president-elect nominee Robert L. Grey Jr. at a rescheduled Black Law Students Association Black History Month event held March 11 at the Law School.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA — Organizers of the March Against Racial Hatred expect several hundred University of Virginia students and Charlottesville community members to march to the Rotunda tomorrow night to express their condemnation of racial hatred. At 8 p.m. at the Rotunda during a candlelight vigil, a group of speakers composed of student leaders and faculty members will call for renewed efforts to address racial problems at the University. The event will end in a student-led speak-out.
For a country that extols the rule of law and individual rights, the United States has had a very hard time extending those values to African-Americans, the Hon. Roger L. Gregory of the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit said in a Feb. 13 speech sponsored by the Black Law Students Association.
American Indians thought of fathers foremost as providers, not as bosses, and so were perplexed by how whites behaved after pacts using the term father were agreed to, according to Morris Arnold, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit and a pioneer in the field of intercultural legal history. Indian and white notions of what terms meant were often at variance, Arnold told the Federalist Society Feb. 5.
Posted November 19, 2004
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