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WHAT: "Post-racialism Symposium"

Symposium on the current state of race relations in the United States in the wake of President Obama?s election, and how the law should respond.  Many commentators have declared our society ?post-racial,? but what are the dangers associated with such a declaration?  What does the law need to do, if anything, to guarantee Equal Protection?

WHEN: Friday, March 26th, 2010, 9:30 a.m. ? 2:00 p.m.

WHERE: Georgetown University Law Center

McDonough Hall

600 New Jersey Avenue, NW

Washington, D.C. 20001

Friday, March 26

9:30 - Coffee Meet & Greet, 2nd Floor McDonough Hall Atrium

10:00 - Keynote Speaker, followed by Q&A, 203 McDonough Hall

Ben Wilson, Managing Principal of Beveridge & Diamond, and recipient of the 2009 Wiley Branton Award for outstanding achievement in civil rights law by the Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Development

11:00 - Q&A with Symposium Panel, 203 McDonough Hall

Professor Anthony Alfieri, The University of Miami School of Law, author of Post-racialism in the Inner City: Structure and Culture in Lawyering

Professor Mario L. Barnes, The University of Miami School of Law, and Professor Trina Jones, U.C. Irvine School of Law, authors of A Post-race Equal Protection? along with Dean Irwin Chemerinsky, U.C. Irvine School of Law, who unfortunately will not be able to attend the event.

Dean Kevin Johnson, U.C. Davis School of Law, author of How Racial Profiling in America Became the Law of the Land: United States v. Brignoni-Ponce and Whren v. United States and the Need for Truly Rebellious Lawyering

Professor Angela Onwuachi-Willig, The University of Iowa College of Law, author of Another Hair Piece: Exploring New Strands of Analysis Under Title VII

Professor Girardeau Spann, The Georgetown University Law Center, author of Disparate Impact

1:00 - Working Lunch, 203 McDonough Hall, Students will have the opportunity to interact directly with the Symposium authors to discuss the current state of race in the law. 

2:00 - Symposium concludes