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Imagining a More Just World

For access to an archived recording, please contact Law School Academic Affairs at 205 348 7190 or Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Grace Lee at glee@law.ua.edu.


April 10, 2015

Welcome & Introduction

Vice Dean James Leonard, The University of Alabama School of Law
Dr. Austin Sarat, Justice Hugo L. Black Visiting Senior Faculty Scholar, The University of Alabama School of Law and Associate Dean of the Faculty, William Nelson Cromwell Professor Jurisprudence & Political Science, Amherst College

Session I – From Left to Rights: Civil Liberties Lawyering Between the World Wars

Laura Weinrib, University of Chicago School of Law
Moderator: Brad Watts, The Journal of the Legal Profession

Session II – Lawyering in the Political & Racial Margin: Reparations and Black Equality

Adrienne Davis, Washington University School of Law
Moderator: Julian Bibb, The Journal of the Legal Profession

Session III – Keynote Speaker and Lunch: Justice and Accountability

William Simon, Columbia University School of Law
Moderator: Michael Stallings, The Journal of the Legal Profession

Session IV – Investigator, Therapist, and Lawyer: Title IX Panels and the Flight from Legal Judgment

Roger Berkowitz, Bard College
Moderator: Robby Marcum, The Journal of the Legal Profession

Overview and Commentary

Paul Horwitz, The University of Alabama School of Law