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Philip S. Beck Lecture Featuring Professor Jack Beermann
Dean Angela Onwuachi-Willig invites you to join alumni and friends in Chicago on October 24. Generously hosted by Philip S. Beck (LAW'76) and Bartlit Beck, this event will include a reception following a talk from the newly installed Philip S. Beck Professor of Law Jack Beermann. Professor Beermann willl discuss his latest book The Journey to Separate but Equal: Madame DeCuir's Quest for Racial Justice in the Reconstruction Era, which looks at the first case in which the Supreme Court approved racial segregation. The lecture will take place at the historic Courthouse Place, a renowned Chicago landmark. In its history, Courthouse Place housed the Cook County Criminal Courts and saw trials of the Black Sox Scandal and the Leopold and Loeb murder trial.
| When | 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm on 24 October 2023 |
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| Building | Bartlit Beck LLP Courthouse Place, 54 West Hubbard Street, Chicago, IL 60654 |