January 24: 4th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Forum: "Legal Racism: How Inequities Created by the Law Can Be Eliminated by the Law"
Please join us at our 4th annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Forum on Thursday, January 24, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., in the Chicago-Kent auditorium. The forum will be followed by a reception in the lobby.
The topic for the 2019 Forum is "Legal Racism: How Inequities Created by the Law Can Be Eliminated by the Law." Erika K. Wilson, Thomas Willis Lambeth Distinguished Chair in Public Policy & Associate Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law, will be our featured speaker.
Other panelists include:
- Sidney Dillard, Partner, Head of Corporate Investment Banking Division, Loop Capital
- Candace Moore, Senior Staff Attorney, Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights
- Michael Seng, Director, Fair Housing Legal Support Center & Clinic, The John Marshall Law School
This event is open to the public so please share this information with those in your network both lawyers and non-lawyers.
Faculty, please encourage your students to attend. You may wish to consider making it part of your class discussion -- as a wide array of legal topics will be discussed.
Please see flyer for this event.
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