Commemorative Symposium: Law Enforcement Role of the Civil Rights Division, Past & Future
The past and future of the Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice, was explored and celebrated at a Commemorative Symposium heralding the division's golden anniversary.
Hosted by the CRDA and Pacific McGeorge School of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, in Washington, D.C., the daylong event was scheduled for September 29, 2007.
View the 50th Anniversary Commemoration Event Program
KEYNOTE: Law Enforcement Role of the Civil Rights Division, Past & Future
Keynote Speaker: Jack Nelson
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, who covered civil rights for the Los Angeles Times
PANEL: Voter Registration & the Path to the Voting Rights Act of 1965
- John Doar, former Assistant Attorney General, CRD
- Charles McDew, former SNCC leader
- John Seigenthaler, former Special Assistant to Attorney General Kennedy School Desegregation in Alabama
- Jack Bass, distinguished author and journalist
- Brian Landsberg, Professor, McGeorge School of Law
PANEL: Looking to the Future of Federal Civil Rights Enforcement
- Samuel R.Bagenstos, Professor, Washington University Law School
- Julie A. Fernandes, Senior Policy Analyst and Special Counsel, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
- Vicki Schultz, Professor, Yale Law School
- Mark Tushnet, Professor, Harvard Law School
- Sherrilyn Iffil, Professor, University of Maryland Law School (moderator)
View a Webcast of the event:
Georgetown University WebcastPast Symposia:
1994 Symposium: The Department of Justice and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (20th Anniversary)