Professor Olatunde Johnson of Columbia Law School will be the Keynote Speaker at Syracuse Law’s 60th Anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 Commemoration. She will deliver the address, “The Future of Civil Rights in An Age of Colorblindness”. An interdisciplinary panel discussion will follow the address.
Johnson is the Ruth Bader Ginsburg’ 59 Professor of Law at Columbia Law School where she teaches, writes, and provides public commentary about anti-discrimination law, administrative law, courts, democracy, and inequality in the United States. She directs Columbia’s Constitutional Democracy Initiative and co-directs the Center on Constitutional Governance at Columbia Law School.
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark law that outlawed discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin.
Monday, October 7
4:30 p.m.
Room 350
Reception to follow in the Atrium
RSVP to Christy Ramsdell by October 1.