Civil Rights Symposium Set For School Of Law
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - In recognition of two landmark Supreme Court decisions involving civil rights cases, the University of Arkansas School of Law will host "From Brown to Grutter and Beyond," at 3 p.m. Friday, October 15, in the Leflar Law Center courtroom.
George Haley, a former ambassador to The Gambia and Law School alumnus, will join Dennis Shields of Duke University Law School for the symposium, which will highlight the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education as well as the more recent Grutter v. Bollinger decision in which Shields was a named defendant.
Also scheduled to appear are former U.S. Secretary of Transportation and Law School alumnus Rodney Slater and Alonzo Smith, a research historian in the division of Cultural History at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Smith is a curator of a Brown v. Board of Education exhibit at the Smithsonian.
The symposium will include a question and answer session and is open to the public and the media.
Contacts
Frankie Frisco communications coordinator, School of Law, (479) 575-6111, ffrisco@uark.eduHeadlines
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