• Congresswoman Barbara Jordan Speaker Series on Race, Law, & Inequality presented by Professor Daniel Kiel: "The Transition: The Contrasting Views of Black Citizenship That Have Transformed the Supreme Court"12:45 pm

Congresswoman Barbara Jordan Speaker Series on Race, Law, & Inequality presented by Professor Daniel Kiel: "The Transition: The Contrasting Views of Black Citizenship That Have Transformed the Supreme Court"

In his last opinion as a Supreme Court justice, Thurgood Marshall lamented that changes in the Court’s personnel seemed to be driving the institution away from its role as protector of the powerless. Over the past 70 years, few changes in the Court’s personnel have been as impactful as the one that shortly followed, from Marshall to his successor, Clarence Thomas. Drawing from his recent book, The Transition: Interpreting Justice from Thurgood Marshall to Clarence Thomas, Daniel Kiel will examine how these justices came to their contrasting visions for using law to produce equal Black citizenship and how those visions have influenced and defined the decades-long remaking of the Supreme Court.

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When	12:45 pm to 2:00 pm on Monday, March 25, 2024
Building	LAW, 765 Commonwealth Avenue
Room	Barristers Hall
Contact Email	lawevent@bu.edu
Contact Organization	LAW Marketing & Communications
Fees	Free
Speakers	Professor of Law Daniel Kiel