We the People: The Civil Rights Revolution
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We the People: The Civil Rights Revolution is coming out next week, and the Yale Law Journal will be celebrating its publication with a
two-day Symposium on The
Meaning of the Civil Rights Revolution.
Here's the
line-up:
Friday, February 28:
1:10-1:30: Introduction by Dean Robert Post
1:30 – 3:50 Constitutional Change and the Role of
Courts (chaired
by Jack Balkin)
Randy Barnett, We
the People: Each and Every One
Justin Driver, Reactionary
Rhetoric, Judicial Skepticism, and Liberal Legal Academia
Sanford Levinson, Popular
Sovereignty and the United States Constitution: Tensions in the Ackermanian
Program
David Strauss, The
Neo-Hamiltonian Temptation
4:00 – 6:00 Constitutional
Change and the Role of Social Movements (chaired by Owen Fiss)
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, The
Civil Rights Canon: From Above and Below
Lani Guinier & Gerald
Torres, Changing the Wind: Notes Toward a
Demosprudence of Law and Social Movements
David Super, Protecting
Civil Rights in the Shadows
6:00 – 6:30 Comments
by Bruce Ackerman
Saturday, March 1:
9:30 – 11:30 Spheres and Strategies for Civil Rights (chaired by Reva Siegel)
Samuel Bagenstos, Universalism
and Civil Rights
Cary Franklin, Separate
Spheres
Rogers Smith, Ackerman’s
Civil Rights Revolution and Modern American Racial Politics
12:15 – 2:15 The Anti-Humiliation Principle and the
Legacy of Brown (chaired by Akhil Amar)
Deborah Hellman, Equal
Protection in the Key of Respect
Randall Kennedy, Ackerman’s Brown
Kenji Yoshino, The
Anti-Humiliation Principle and Same-Sex Marriage
2:30 – 4:30 The Civil Rights Revolution in Employment (chaired by Christine
Jolls)
Richard Thompson Ford, Rethinking
Rights After the Second Reconstruction
Sophia Lee, A
Revolution at War with Itself? Preserving Employment Preferences from Weber to Ricci
John Skrentny, Have
We Moved Beyond the Civil Rights Revolution?
4:30 – 5:00 Closing Remarks by Bruce Ackerman
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