10/31
4:00 PM
James A. Thomas Lecture: “Out of the Grutter and Into the Mainstream: From Adversity to Diversity” Presented by Lani Guinier ’74, Bennet Boskey Professor, Harvard Law School
Moderator: Owen M. Fiss, Sterling Professor of Law
Clerks: Frederick M. Rowe ’52, Clerked 1952-1953 for Justice Tom C. Clark
William D. Rogers ’51, Clerked 1952-1953 for Justice Stanley F. Reed
11/1
9:30 AM
Session I: “Re-Imagining Equality: Social Movements Transforming and ExtendingBrown”
Moderator: Reva Siegel ’86, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Panelists: William N. Eskridge, Jr. ’78, John A. Garver Professor of Jurisprudence, Yale Law School
Catherine A. MacKinnon ’77, Ph.D., ’87, Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School
Thomas A. Saenz ’91, Vice President of Litigation, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF)
Kendall Thomas ’82, Professor and Co-Director, Center for the Study of Law & Culture, Columbia Law School
9:30 AM
Session II: “Brown" ‘On the Ground’: The Elusive Quest for Desegregation in Schools and Housing”
Moderator: Drew S. Days, III ’66, Alfred M. Rankin Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Panelists: Eleanor Brown ’99, Partner, Prism Capital Services Limited, Jamaica; Gary Orfield Professor of Education and Social Policy, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Robert Solomon, Clinical Professor of Law and Supervising Attorney, Yale Law School
William L. Taylor, ’54, Chairman, Citizens’ Commission on Civil Rights
11:00 AM
Session III: “Race and Political Represenation”
Moderator: Jack M. Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment, Yale Law School
Panelists: Jerome Gray, State Field Director, Alabama Democratic Conference, The Black Political Caucus of Alabama.
Samuel Issacharoff ’83, Harold R. Medina Professor in Procedural Jurisprudence, Columbia School of Law
Pamela S. Karlan ’84, Kenneth & Harle Montgomery Professor of Public Interest Law, Stanford Law School
Richard H. Pildes, Professor of Law, New York University School of Law
11:00 AM
Session IV: “Race and Crime: Has Anything Changed?”
Moderator: Dan M. Kahan, Elizabeth K. Dollard Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Panelists: David D. Cole ’84, Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Randall L. Kennedy ’82, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Tracey L. Meares, Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School
Introduction by Anthony T. Kronman ’75, Dean, Yale Law School