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Lani Guinier to Speak on Social Justice02:15PM / Monday, April 27, 2009
WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Lani Guinier, Bennett Boskey professor of law at Harvard Law School, will give a talk on social justice on Tuesday, April 28, at 7 p.m.
The talk is open to the public and will be held in Brooks-Rogers Recital Hall on the Williams College campus.
During the 1980s, Guinier headed the voting rights project at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, litigating cases in the South, and went on to serve in the Civil Rights Division during the Carter administration as special assistant to then-Assistant U.S. Attorney General Drew S. Days.
Guinier garnered public attention in 1993 upon nomination by President Clinton to head the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice, only to have her name withdrawn without a confirmation hearing. Clinton withdrew the nomination claiming he was unaware of some of Guinier's positions.
Guinier transformed that incident into a powerful personal and political memoir titled "Lift Every Voice: Turing a Civil Rights Setback into a New Vision of Social Justice."
In 1998, Guinier became the first black woman appointed to a tenured professorship at Harvard Law School.
Guinier will discuss the Clinton nomination, subsequent debate, and her renewal in confidence in a social justice agenda.
She is the author of six books and more than 100 journal articles, editorials, and law school publications.
Her numerous awards include the Champion of Democracy Award from the National Women's Political Caucus, the Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award from the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession, the Rosa Parks Award from the American Association of Affirmative Action, as well as teaching awards from both the University of Pennsylvania, where she taught for 10 years, and Harvard.
Her research focus includes access to higher education, critical perspectives on race, gender, and class, the responsibilities of public lawyers, voting rights, and democratic theory.
Guinier received her bachelor of arts from Radcliffe College and her juris doctorate from Yale Law School. |
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