Friday, January 24, 2014
5:00 p.m.
The History of the Civil Rights Act
Clayborne Carson, Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute
William B. Gould IV, Stanford Law School
George Rutherglen, University of Virginia School of Law
Moderator: Ralph Richard Banks, Stanford Law School
6:30 p.m.
Dinner
Eva Paterson, Equal Justice Society
Saturday, January 25, 2014
9:00 a.m.
Breakfast
9:30 a.m. – Room 290
The State of Title VII
Charlotte Alexander, Georgia State University College of Law
Zev Eigen, Northwestern University School of Law
Tristin Green, University of San Francisco School of Law
Camille Gear Rich, University of Southern California Gould School of Law
Moderator: Norman Spaulding, Stanford Law School
10:45 a.m.
Civil Rights: Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
Mary Anne Case, University of Chicago Law School
Chai Feldblum, Commissioner, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
Greg Nevins, Lambda Legal
Moderator: Deborah Rhode, Stanford Law School
12:00 noon
Lunch: How to Litigate the Civil Rights Act
Liza Cristol-Deman, Brancart & Brancart
John Relman, Relman, Dane & Colfax PLLC
1:30 p.m.
What Rights?
Sam Bagenstos, University of Michigan Law School
Richard Epstein, New York University School of Law
Richard Ford, Stanford Law School
Moderator: Mark Kelman, Stanford Law School
2:45 p.m.
The Changing Tides of the Enforcement of the Civil Rights Act
Olatunde Johnson, Columbia Law School
Sandra Sperino, University of Cincinnati College of Law
Suja Thomas, University of Illinois College of Law
Moderator: David Freeman Engstrom, Stanford Law School
4:00 p.m.
Closing Reception
Past Symposia
- 2024 Symposium - Speech at Twenty-First Century Schools and Universities
- 2023 Symposium - Access to Justice
- 2022 Symposium - Safeguarding the Fundamental Right to Vote
- 2021 Symposium - Policing, Race, and Power
- 2020 Symposium - Lawyering in the Age of Climate Change
- 2019 Symposium - The Independence of the American Judicial System
- 2018 Symposium - Federalism in an Age of Polarization
- 2017 Symposium - Lawyers and Leadership: Raising the Bar
- 2016 Symposium - Law of Democracy
- 2015 Symposium - Who Knows?
- 2012 Symposium - The Privacy Paradox
- 2011 Symposium - The Future of Patents