Speaker Series: Equal Justice Under the Law? The Supreme Court and the Fight for Civil Rights
In recent years, the conservative supermajority on the U.S. Supreme Court has profoundly altered the civil rights landscape. The Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, ended affirmative action in higher education, and found that “expressive” businesses have a free speech right to refuse service to same-sex couples and other members of protected classes.
The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) is the nation’s premier legal organization fighting for racial justice. It has won major victories even in today’s daunting legal environment, such as the recent Supreme Court decision in Allen v. Milligan upholding a core plank of the Voting Rights Act.
Join Janai Nelson, President and Director-Counsel of LDF, for a timely conversation with Professor Kenji Yoshino, Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law and Director of the Meltzer Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging. They will explore questions such as: How have the recent supreme court decisions affecred our civil rights? What challenges lie ahead in the upcoming term? And what can individuals who believe in diversity, inclusion and belonging do to advance those values at a significant legal backsliding?
This event is part of the Meltzer Center for Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging speaker series and is cosponsored by the Birnbaum Women’s Leadership Center and the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law. The speaker series is sponsored by:
Corporates
- D.E. Shaw
- Microsoft
- Morgan Stanley
- Thomson Reuters
Law Firms
- DLA Piper
- Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson
- Latham & Watkins
- Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
- Perkins Coie
- Sullivan & Cromwell
- Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
- Weil, Gotshal & Manges
- White & Case
Public Interest Organizations
- Black Theatre United
- Catalyst
- Coqual
- Earthjustice
- Legal Defense Fund (LDF)
- Out Leadership