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Speaker Series

Throughout the year, the School of Law hosts a number of impressive speakers from a wide variety of fields. In addition to speakers invited to campus through UDC-DCSL's annual Rauh Lecture Series, Civil Rights in the 21st Century Summer Internship Program, Career Services Programs, and events sponsored by student and community groups, the School of Law also hosts a Speaker Series - a series of events meant to inspire, inform, and educate members of the School of Law, the University, and the community.

Past Events

• Strategies for Addressing Poverty and Inequality
• Educating At-Risk Children in the 21st Century
• Stephen Bright of the Southern Center for Human Rights
• The 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education Series
• Post 9/11 Civil Liberties Symposium
• John Payton Discusses Supreme Court Ruling on Affirmative Action
• Professor Noam Chomsky Discusses U.S. Foreign Policy
• Understanding Lawyers' Ethics: Zealous Advocacy in a Time of Uncertainty
• D.C. Voting Rights Symposium
• Conservative Constitutional Counter-Revolution
• Roger Wilkins on "Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism"
• Congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. Shares Insights on How to Form "A More Perfect Union"
• Panel Discussion on "Reparations in the 21st Century"
• Other Speakers at UDC-DCSL

Strategies for Addressing Poverty and Inequality

August 8, 2005 marked a major milestone for the UDC David A. Clarke School of Law: the award of full American Bar Association accreditation.

Letter of Congratulations and Support from District of Columbia Mayor Anthony Williams

To celebrate this achievement, we hosted a symposium entitled Strategies for Addressing Poverty and Inequality, on April 7-9, 2006. Speakers and panelists focused on issues of racial fairness, the access to justice movement and the role of the legal profession and clinical legal education in addressing poverty and inequality. Substantive issues included affordable housing, economic justice, and making public systems work for children. These were examined with the goal of developing activist agendas for legislative, litigation and organizing strategies. The symposium was held in conjunction with the 14th annual Rauh Lecture on Friday, April 7, which featured keynote speaker Theodore M. Shaw, Director-Counsel and President of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and an alumni reunion on Saturday, April 8. See below for the schedule of amazing speakers who appeared at the symposium.

Featured Speakers included:

Barbara Arnwine, Executive Director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Helaine Barnett, President, Legal Services Corporation Edgar Cahn, UDC-DCSL, DC Youth Court and the Time Dollar Institute Peter Edelman, Georgetown Law Center, DC Access to Justice Commission Wade Henderson, Executive Director, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Alan W. Houseman, Director, Center for Law and Social Policy Tom Perez, Councilmember, Montgomery County Council Theodore Shaw, President, NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund Florence Wagman Roisman, Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis JoAnn Wallace, President, National Legal Aid and Defender Association

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Strategies for Addressing Poverty and Inequality

SYMPOSIUM FRIDAY SCHEDULE
8:30 - 9:00	Refreshments, meet and greet
9:00 - 9:25	KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Councilmember Tom Perez, Montgomery County Council
9:25 - 9:35	OPENING REMARKS: Helaine Barnett, President, Legal Services Corporation
9:35 - 1:00	AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROGRAM
9:35 - 10:30	Panel 1: The National Crisis in Affordable Housing Moderator/Speaker: Oramenta Newsome, Director, Washington DC Office, Local Initiatives Support Corporation Speakers: Marge Turner, Director, Center on Metropolitan Housing and Community Policy Center, Urban Institute Dave Garrison, Senior Fellow and Deputy Director, Greater Washington Research Program, Brookings Institution
10:45 - 11:45	Panel 2: Housing Preservation Strategies Moderator: Susan Bennett, Director, Washington College of Law Office of Clinical Programs, Director, Community and Economic Development Clinic, Professor of Law Topics and Speakers: Use of tenant purchase law. Aaron O'Toole, Clinic Fellow, Housing Clinic of the Harrison Institute for Public Law, Georgetown University School of Law Use of code enforcement strategies (including forfeiture and foreclosure strategies). Eric Rome, Eisen and Rome Fair housing issues. Brian Gilmore, Clinical Law Professor, Howard University School of Law Rent supplement and emergency assistance initiative. Bob Pohlman, Executive Director, Coalition for Nonprofit Housing and Economic Development
12:00 - 1:00	Panel 3: Housing Production Strategies Moderator/Speaker: Louise Howells, Professor, Community Development Clinic and Small Business Law Center, UDC David A. Clarke School of Law Topics and Speakers: Work of Housing Production Trust Fund, Comprehensive Housing Strategy Task Force. Inclusionary zoning. Adrian Washington, President, Neighborhood Development Corporation, Co-Chair, Comprehensive Housing Strategy Task Force Community-based land banks and community land trusts. John Hamilton, Chairman, Community First, Inc., Board of Directors, City First Bank Tenants as developers and new ownership models. Elizabeth Figueroa, Blumenthal and Shanley
1:15 - 2:15	LUNCH PANEL: Strategies for Ending Poverty and Inequality Moderator: Shelley Broderick, Dean, UDC David A. Clarke School of Law Speakers: Barbara Arnwine, Executive Director, Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights JoAnn Wallace, Executive Director, National Legal Aid and Defender Association
2:30 - 5:30	ACCESS TO JUSTICE PROGRAM
2:30 - 3:45	Panel 1: New Directions for Lawyers in Race and Poverty Issues -- The National View Moderator/Speaker: Alan Houseman, Director, Center for Law and Social Policy Speakers: Martha Bergmark, President and CEO, Mississippi Center for Justice John Brittain, Chief Counsel and Deputy Director, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Hannah Lieberman, Deputy Executive Director, Maryland Legal Aid Bureau
4:00 - 5:30	Panel 2: New Directions for Lawyers in Race and Poverty Issues -- The Local View Moderator/Speaker: Peter Edelman, Professor of Law, Co-Director, Joint Degree in Law and Public Policy, Georgetown University Law Center, Co-Chair, DC Access to Justice Commission Speakers: Judge Inez Smith Reid, DC Court of Appeals Jonathan Smith, Executive Director, Legal Aid Society of DC Patty Mullahy-Fugere, Executive Director, Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless Paula Scott, Chief, Civil Legal Services Division, DC Public Defender Service (confirmed) Vytas Vergeer, Director of Legal Services, Bread for the City
6:00	RAUH LECTURE: Theodore M. Shaw, Director-Counsel and President, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.
7:00	ACCREDITATION CELEBRATION RECEPTION BASH: Co-Hosted by: U.S. Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton; Hon. Anthony A. Williams, Mayor District of Columbia; Mrs. David A. (Carole) Clarke; D.C. Councilmembers: Hon. Linda W. Cropp, Chair; Hon. Jack Evans, Ward Two, Chair Pro Tempore; Hon. Carol Schwartz, At Large; Hon. Phil Mendelson, At Large; Hon. David Catania, At Large; Hon. Kwame Brown, At Large; Hon. Jim Graham, Ward One; Hon. Kathleen Patterson, Ward Three; Hon. Adrian Fenty, Ward Four; Hon. Vincent Orange, Ward Five; Hon. Sharon Ambrose, Ward Six; Hon. Vincent C. Gray, Ward Seven; Hon. Marion Barry, Ward Eight; and John Cruden, President, D.C. Bar. Bring family, friends and colleagues!!!!

SYMPOSIUM SATURDAY SCHEDULE
8:30 - 9:00	Refreshments
9:00 - 12:00	ECONOMIC JUSTICE PROGRAM
9:00 - 10:30	Panel 1: The National Economic (In)Justice Picture Moderator: Raj Nayak, Associate Counsel, Poverty Program, Brennan Center for Justice, New York University School of Law Speakers: Sam Daley-Harris, Director, Microcredit Summit Campaign Andrea Levere, President, Corporation for Enterprise Development Stephen Hill, Partner, Howrey, Simon, Arnold & White
10:45 - 12:00	Panel 2: The Economic Justice Battle in DC Moderator/Speaker: Ed Lazere, Executive Director, DC Fiscal Policy Institute Topics and Speakers: Community benefits legislation/agreements - job creation and local hiring, job quality standards; model legislation Laurie Morin, Associate Professor of Law, Community Development Clinic, UDC David A. Clarke School of Law A community benefits agreements success story - Shaw Economic Development Initiative (CBA for Parcel 33; SEDI Goals for Public Land Development) Dominic Moulden, Executive Director, ONE DC Current income and benefits initiatives (living wage bills; big box retail standards; injured workers justice project; wage hour enforcement) Karen Minatelli, Director of Policy, DC Employment Justice Center Workplace equality issues. Lisalyn Jacobs, Vice President for Governmental Relations, Legal Momentum
12:15 - 1:15	LUNCH SPEAKER: Wade Henderson, Executive Director, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and Joseph L. Rauh Professor of Public Interest Law, UDC David A. Clarke School of Law
1:30 - 5:30	MAKING MAINSTREAM SYSTEMS WORK FOR CHILDREN
1:30 - 2:45	Panel 1: The National View Moderator/Speaker: Joan M. Dodge, Ph.D., Senior Policy Associate, Georgetown University, National Technical Assistance Center for Children's Mental Health Topics and Speakers: How Mainstream Systems are Failing Children and Creating a Cradle to Prison Pipeline. Morna Murray, Director of Youth Development, Children's Defense Fund Integrating Child Welfare and Other Human Service Systems to Prevent Abuse and Neglect, Avoid Unnecessary Foster Care Placements and Move Children into Permanent, Loving Homes. Rutledge Hutson, Senior Staff Attorney, Center for Law and Social Policy Reforming the Juvenile Justice System. Vinny Schiraldi, Director, Dept of Youth Rehabilitation Services (confirmed)
3:00 - 4:00	Panel 2 - Local Strategies for Keeping Kids in Mainstream Systems Moderator/Speaker: Joe Tulman, Professor of Law, Director, Clinical Programs, Director, Juvenile and Special Education Law Clinic, UDC David A. Clarke School of Law Topics and Speakers: Supports and incentives for keeping kids integrated in mainstream systems. School-based mental health and evidence-based training of professionals (in schools and elsewhere). Steve Evans, Professor of Psychology Director, Alvin V. Baird Attention & Learning Disabilities Center, James Madison University Joining the school and health care+ systems. Starting school-based health care programs in DC. Pilot to provide special education services through school-based health care model. Jennifer Guste Leonard, Executive Director, DC Assembly on School-Based Health Care, Policy Associate, ChildWorks LLC Changing public financing schemes to improve service delivery -- funding models that force agency collaboration and create counterincentives to moving kids between agencies and dumping them into deep-end systems Susanne Slater, Senior Fellow, Office of Executive Programs, School of Public Policy, University of MD
4:15 - 5:30	Panel 3: Litigation and Law Reform Efforts Revisited Moderator/Speaker: Joe Tulman, Professor of Law, Director, Clinical Programs, Director, Juvenile and Special Education Law Clinic, UDC David A. Clarke School of Law Speakers: Donna Wulkan, Law Office of Donna Wulkan, Esq. Tammy Seltzer, Senior Staff Attorney, Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law Karen Schneider, Project Director, DC Appleseed
5:30 - 6:30	CLOSING SESSION Transformative visions for these systems: instead of working within the current systems, what about changing them altogether? New directions. Speakers: Florence Roisman, Michael McCormick Professor of Law, Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis Edgar Cahn, Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Law, UDC David A. Clarke School of Law Emma Coleman Jordan, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
6:30	ALUMNI REUNION

SYMPOSIUM SUNDAY SCHEDULE
10:00 – Noon	OPEN SPACE SESSION I (UDC Building 38 – 2nd Floor) The Open Space Session will provide an opportunity for self-structured discussion among Symposium participants and allow the growth of organizing and research ideas.
Noon	LUNCH
1:00 – 3:00	OPEN SPACE SESSION II

Download the Schedule in .pdf

Educating At-Risk Children in the 21st Century

On October 29, 2004, the University of the District of Columbia Law Review sponsored a day-long symposium at the School of Law titled Educating At-Risk Children in the 21st Century. More than 100 attendees joined with symposium panelists in intense discussions about recent laws impacting the nation's education system and their effect on children from low-income families and children with special needs.

The day's first panel focused on the No Child Left Behind Act. Panelists included Sue Heath, Research Editor at Wrightslaw and Co-Author, with Peter Wright, Esq. and Pamela Darr Wright, of Wrightslaw: No Child Left Behind; Leigh Manasevit, Partner at Brunstein & Manavesit; Dianne M. Piche, Executive Director of the Citizens' Commission on Civil Rights; Gary M. Ratner, Founder and Executive Director of Citizens for Effective Schools, Inc., (CES); and Zollie Stevenson, Jr., Ph.D., of the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education, US Department of Education.

A second panel, focused on School Finance Reform, included panelists Derek Black, Esq. of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law; Nancy O'Brien, Federal Lobbyist at the National Education Association, Government Relations; Leslie T. Thornton, Esq., Partner at Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky, LLP; and Noah Wepman, Budget Officer with the D.C. Public Schools Office of Special Education.

The day's third panel focused on Special Education and was moderated by Arthur L. Burnett, Sr., Senior Judge on the District of Columbia Superior Court. Panelists were Rebekah Gleason, Esq., Director of the Child Advocacy Clinic at Florida Coastal School of Law; Professor Arlene King-Berry of UDC's Department Education; Marsha Levick, Esq., Legal Director at the Juvenile Law Center; and Sherry Meisel, Ph.D., Associate Director of the The National Center on Education, Disability, and Juvenile Rights.

Judith Winston, Principal and Co-Founder of Winston Withers & Associates, LLC, gave the luncheon address, which was followed by a panel focusing on Federal and D.C. Vouchers. Panelists included Dan Fuller, National School Board Association; Elizabeth Greczek, University Legal Services; Krista Kafer, Heritage Foundation; Nina Rees, Department of Education; Tom Spencer, Fight for Children; and Iris Toyer, Washington Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights.

The final panel, moderated by Dr. James Fox, Associate Professor in UDC's Department of Education, focused on Charter Schools and included Robert Cane, Executive Director of FOCUS--Friends of Choice in Urban Schools; Dean Kern, Director of the Charter Schools Program, Office of Innovation and Improvement, US Department of Education; Ariana Quinones, Executive Director of the DC Public Charter School Association; and Nelson Smith, Vice President of Governance and Policy at New American Schools.

Georgetown University Law Professor James Forman, Jr. delivered a rousing and very well-received capstone address. The symposium concluded with a well-attended reception in the University's Window Lounge.

Stephen Bright Speaks at UDC-DCSL

On October 28, 2004, reknowned death-penalty foe, Stephen B. Bright, addressed members of the School of Law Community in the Window Lounge in an event sponsored by the Dean.

Bright, Executive Director of the Southern Center for Human Rights, described his direct legal representation- usually on appeal- of dozens of poor, usually minority inmates who typically received horrendously inadequate representation at trial. He spoke of the systems in many southern counties that often vest the lives of the accused on inexperienced, underpaid or patently incompetent lawyers and of the case law and appellate decisions that permit the situation to continue unabated into the 21st century.

This was Mr. Bright's third time speaking at UDC-DCSL and he expressed strong support and enthusiasm for the School of Law and its mission.

The 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education Series

On May 17, 2004, the nation commemorated the 50th anniversary of the United States Supreme Court's landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education. The American Bar Association's Section on Legal Education recently reported that thus far nineteen law schools and the Association of American Law Schools have either already mounted or plan to hold events in 2004 to observe the half-century anniversary of the watershed ruling, and UDC-DCSL joined that group by hosting a series of events: Brown v. Board: What the Future Must Bring to Realize the Dream.

Barbara Arnwine, Executive Director of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, kicked off the School of Law's Brown v. Board series in December. She told a number of "war stories" including that of a stirring Lawyers' Committee case in southern Georgia that dramatically underscored both the continued existence and virulence of racism in America and the value of both the Brown decision and the lawyers who see to it that the law is enforced.

On January 20, 2004, the School of Law had the honor of hosting Dr. Dorothy Height, as interviewed by Charles Ogletree on her memoir, Open Wide the Freedom Gates. Dr. Height regaled a packed house with tales from her many decades of activism stretching from her encounters with Harlem Renaissance luminaries like Langston Hughes to her work for First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt to the present.

On February 20, 2004, the School of Law hosted a symposium titled Brown v. Board at 50: The Unfinished Business. Professor Charles Ogletree of Harvard Law School began the day with a keynote address in which he discussed the impact the landmark decision in Brown had in changing society as a whole, as well as whether Brown has lived up to its promise of providing racially integrated and equal educational opportunities. Professor Ogletree also addressed the impact of the recent decisions on affirmative action in higher education in achieving educational equity.

The keynote address was followed by a panel discussion titled Implementing Brown v. Board of Education: Lessons from the Past; Strategies for the Future. UDC-DCSL Professor William L. Robinson moderated a panel comprised of U.S. Court of Appeals Judge David S. Tatel; William L. Taylor, Executive Director of the Citizens' Commission on Civil Rights; Ross Wiener of The Education Trust; and Judith A. Winston of Winston, Withers & Associates, LLC. The panelists began by discussing the success and failure of Brown in provoking widespread legal and social changes and equal educational opportunity. In the second half of the discussion, the panelists moved on to discuss strategies for furthering the legacy of Brown and specific reforms needed to eliminate educational disparities and provide high quality education to all children.

On April 12, 2004, the School of Law community listened in wonder and awe as Congressman John Lewis (D-GA) offered a dynamic and moving slice of civil rights and educational equality history during the 12th annual Rauh Lecture. More information about that event is available on the Rauh Lecture page.

Later in April, Professor Charles Ogletree of Harvard Law School again visited the School of Law to discuss his new book, All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education. In All Deliberate Speed Ogletree examines the personal ramifications of the Brown decision for him and his family — his childhood in the wake of the Brown decision, his student days at Stanford and Harvard Law, his immersion in the Boston busing crisis — and its meaning for all Americans. During his visit, Professor Ogletree discussed the ambivalence of our judicial system, the increasing legal challenges to affirmative action, and the issue of reparations.

The School of Law's Brown anniversary task force anticipates that additional Brown commemorative programming will be presented during the fall 2004 semester, in conjunction with the Howard University School of Law.

Post 9/11 Civil Liberties Symposium

On November 21, 2003, the UDC-DCSL Law Review, in conjunction with the D.C. Affairs Section of the District of Columbia Bar and the American Civil Liberties Union of the National Capital Area, sponsored an all-day symposium entitled "In the Aftermath of September 11: Defending Civil Liberties in the Nation's Capital."

The program focused on post-September 11 civil liberties issues of particular significance and concern to citizens of the District of Columbia, given the city's unique status as the seat of the national government. New York Law School Professor and American Civil Liberties Union President Nadine Strossen delivered the event's capstone address, which was preceded by presentations from 26 speakers divided into five topically themed panels.

The panel topics included the effects of the war against terrorism on the exercise of First Amendment rights in the District of Columbia, and the handling of mass protest demonstrations by the city's police department; the use of surveillance cameras in the District; the post-September 11 treatment of immigrants residing in the city; the impact of September 11 on the First Amendment, job security, and collective bargaining rights of the many thousands of federal government employees who live and work in the metropolitan area; and the relationship between the federal and District governments in times of crisis. The symposium also featured a luncheon presentation by Georgetown University Law Center Professor David D. Cole, who discussed and responded to questions about his recently published book, Enemy Aliens: Double Standards and Constitutional Freedoms in the War on Terrorism.

John Payton Discusses Supreme Court Ruling on Affirmative Action

On July 8, 2003, the School of Law welcomed John Payton, lead attorney for the University of Michigan in the recently decided Supreme Court affirmative action case. Following a victory reception, Mr. Payton was introduced by Wade Henderson, the Joseph L. Rauh, Jr. Professor of Public Interest Law at the UDC-DCSL and Executive Director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. Mr. Payton's presentation on the Supreme Court's rulings in Gratz v. Bollinger and Grutter v. Bollinger was followed by an informative question and answer session with an enthusiastic audience that included students, faculty, and members of the community.

Professor Noam Chomsky Discusses U.S. Foreign Policy

On June 1, 2003, 2200 people attended a lecture by world-famous Massachusetts Institute of Technology Linguistics Professor Noam Chomsky at the University of the District of Columbia Gymnasium. Professor Chomsky spoke on recent US foreign policy with a particular emphasis on the Middle East.

The event was a benefit for SUSTAIN (Stop US Tax-Funded Aid to Israel Now) and was hosted by four law student groups - the UDC-DCSL Chapters of the National Lawyers' Guild, the American Constitutional Law Society, the International Law Students Association, and Phi Alpha Delta.

UDC-DCSL Dean Shelley Broderick welcomed the huge crowd, which cheered repeatedly at her description of the diverse, public-interest nature of the law school.

Understanding Lawyers' Ethics:
Zealous Advocacy in a Time of Uncertainty

In April, the School of Law hosted a symposium featuring nationally known legal ethicist Monroe Freedman and Georgetown Law Professor Abbe Smith, co-authors of the newly released Understanding Lawyers’ Ethics. They were joined in a panel discussion by former Watergate prosecutor Sam Dash, George Washington University Law Professor Paul Butler, and UDC-DCSL’s own Professor Laurie Morin. Moderator Wade Henderson provided several ethical hypothetical situations for the panelists to comment upon. Afterward, the panelists answered questions from the audience.

D.C. Voting Rights Symposium

Also in April, the School of Law’s American Constitution Society chapter hosted a Symposium on D.C. Voting Rights with Ilir Zherka, Executive Director of D.C. Vote; UDC-DCSL Professor Jim Gray; Statehood Green Party member Scott McLarty; D.C. Appleseed Director Walter Smith; American University Law Professor Jamin Raskin and National Capital Region ACLU Director Johnny Barnes.

Conservative Constitutional Counter-Revolution

Students, faculty, prominent civil rights lawyers, law professors, judges, and alumni came together at the School of Law for a symposium on "The Conservative Constitutional Counter-Revolution." Presentations by Elaine Jones, Director-Counsel and President of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, and Norman R. Redlich, New York University Law School Dean Emeritus, were followed by a panel that included civil rights attorney Janell Byrd-Chichester; Tom Henderson, Deputy Director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights under Law; William Taylor, Vice Chairman of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights; and Wade Henderson, Executive Director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, who moderated the discussion. The symposium was followed by a reception and the unveiling of a portrait of Professor William L. Robinson, founding Dean of the School of Law, who served from 1988 until 1998.

Read more about the event in The Advocate

Roger Wilkins at UDC-DCSL

Scholar and Civil Rights leader Roger Wilkins visited to UDC-DCSL to talk about the subject matter of his recent book, Jefferson's Pillow: The Founding Fathers and the Dilemma of Black Patriotism. Wilkins spoke before a large group of students, alumni and other members of the University and D.C. community who paid the author-speaker their highest honor - by buying out all available copies of his book! After an extended question and answer period, Professor Wilkins graciously posed for photos and autographed copies of his book for the long line.

Perfection Bound

Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. Shares Insights on How to Form "A More Perfect Union."

Congressman Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-Illinois) visited UDC-DCSL to read from and sign copies of his latest book A More Perfect Union: Advancing New American Rights (with Frank E. Watkins). Students, faculty, and staff from around the university joined Dean Shelley Broderick in proudly welcoming the congressman to UDC, the site of his first major book signing in the D.C. area for the new title.

Read more about the event in The Advocate

"Reparations in the 21st Century"

Should descendants of African American slaves receive reparations as a form of redress for slavery and the systemic inequalities that still linger in its wake? Will the payment of reparations help or harm current race relations in the United States? In light of affirmative action, welfare, and other social programs, have reparations, in fact, already been paid?

And what about the legal basis for such a pursuit—does a valid case with strong evidence and legal precedents for reparations exist?

Read more about the event in The Advocate

Other Speakers

Following are just some of the outstanding public interest leaders who have visited the School of Law:

Ambassador James Akins Derrick Bell Mari Carmen Aponte William Taylor Charles Ruff Norman Redlich Lani Guinier Eric Holder Morris Dees Ilir Zherka

James Akins former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia Mari Carmen Aponte Executive Director Puerto Rico Federal Affairs Administration Barbara Arnwine Executive Director Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Johnny Barnes Executive Director ACLU of the National Capital Area Hon. Judith Bartnoff D.C. Superior Court Derrick Bell Activist, Author & Professor Harvard University Law School Hon. Arthur Burnett, Sr. D.C. Superior Court Ida Castro Chair U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Jon. John Conyers, Jr. Congressman Michigan's 14th District Morris Dees Nationally renown Klan-busting attorney Southern Poverty Law Center Monroe H. Freedman Professor of Law Hofstra University School of Law Lani Guinier Civil Rights Attorney and Professor at Harvard Law School Thomas Henderson Deputy Director Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law Eric Holder Former Deputy Attorney General Covington & Burling Hussein Ibish American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee John Pickering Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering Hon. Hugo Puig-Lugo D.C. Superior Court Robert Raben President, D.C. Hispanic Bar Association; former Assistant U.S. Attorney General Norman Redlich Dean Emeritus & Professor, NYU School of Law Randall Robinson Anti-Apartheid hero and President of TransAfrica Susan Rosenburg Recently freed U.S. political prisoner Charles F.C. Ruff former Presidential Impeachment Counsel Hon. Vanessa Ruiz D.C. Court of Appeals J. Clay Smith Author & Professor of Law Howard University School of Law William Taylor Vice Chair Citizens' Commission on Civil Rights Hon. Annice Wagner Chief Judge D.C. Court of Appeals Raul Yzaguirre Director National Council of La Raza Ilir Zherka Executive Director D.C. Vote

John Conyers Ida Castro Randall Robinson Hon. Annice Wagner Raul Yzaguirre Barbara Arnwine Robert Raben Susan Rosenburg Hussein Ibish Johnny Barnes

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