Thursday, October 29, 2015
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM (ET)
PALMTN Gannett Auditorium
Event Type
Lecture
Contact
580-5240
Department
Government
Link
http://ems.skidmore.edu/MasterCalendar/EventDetails.aspx?EventDetailId=10578
The Ronald J. Fiscus Lecture in Constitutional Law presents "Do Black Lives Matter? Race and Justice in America Now!"
Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. the Harvard Law School Jesse Climenko
Professor of Law, and Founding and Executive Director of the Charles Hamilton
Houston Institute for Race and Justice, is a prominent legal theorist who has
made an international reputation by taking a hard look at complex issues of law
and by working to secure the rights guaranteed by the Constitution for everyone
equally under the law. Professor Ogletree opened the offices of The Charles
Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice www.charleshamiltonhouston.org in
September 2005 as a tribute to the legendary civil rights lawyer and mentor and
teacher of such great civil rights lawyers as Thurgood Marshall and Oliver
Hill. The Institute has engaged in a wide range of important educational,
legal, and policy issues over the past 6 years.
The
Fiscus Lecture was inaugurated in 1991 by Skidmore’s Department of Government
to honor the late Ronald J. Fiscus, a Skidmore faculty member from 1980 to his
death in 1990. Professor Fiscus was a
constitutional law specialist and a key contributor to the development of a
minor in law and society at Skidmore
College.