Barrett Program News And Events
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Emily Burgess ’22 (BS’19) uses law school experience to expand advocacy work
Burgess will serve as a law clerk for Judge Travis McDonough '92 of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee. She is a Judge Martha Craig Daughtrey Public Interest Scholar and a Justice-Moore Family Public Interest Scholar. Read MoreApr. 18, 2022
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Film Night: “My Name Is Pauli Murphy,” a critically acclaimed 2021 documentary spotlighting an influential civil rights activist
Dr. Murray's writings were described by Justice Thurgood Marshall as essential reading for civil rights lawyers. Often overlooked, Dr. Murray was an extraordinarily influential figure in the history of civil rights in America. This documentary screening in Flynn Auditorium is co-sponsored by the George Barrett Social Justice Program and the Office of Diversity, Equity and Community, in partnership with the Black Law Students Association, the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Council, the Law Students for Social Justice, OUTLaw and the Women Law Students Association. Read MoreApr. 8, 2022
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“Thirsty Places: The Roots of Water Injustice in Flint and Appalachia,” a lecture by Priya Baskaran, scheduled Monday, April 11
Baskaran directs the Entrepreneurship Law Clinic at American University Washington College of Law. Her lecture, scheduled in Flynn Auditorium from 12:30 to 1:30 April 11, will address water insecurity and its links to redlining. Read MoreApr. 5, 2022
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“Patient or Prisoner: Hospitals as Carceral Settings,” a lecture by Ji Seon Song, scheduled April 1
Song is an assistant professor of law at University of Calfornia Irvine. Her scholarship examines the deployment of policing authority and its effects on racial minority and other marginalized groups. Her lecture, scheduled from 12:30 to 1:30, Friday, April 1, is free and open to the public and available via Zoom. Read MoreMar. 30, 2022
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“International Law and Women’s Human Rights in Afghanistan,” a lecture by Karima Bennoune March 31
UC Davis scholar Karima Bennoune's talk is the 2022 Victor S. Johnson Lecture. Bennoune holds the Homer G. Angelo and Ann Berryhill Endowed Chair in International Law at UC Davis Law School. Her talk begins at 12:30 p.m. Thurs., March 31, and is free and open to the public. Read MoreMar. 29, 2022
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Kimberly Welch, Vanderbilt scholar of American slavery, race and law, selected for Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship
Welch is an associate professor of history and of law. The two-year, $306,000 fellowship will support research leave and tuition to undertake a self-directed course of study at Vanderbilt Law School and the Owen Graduate School of Management to learn the tools and techniques essential to support her study of the role of Black moneylenders in the 19th-century credit economy. Read MoreMar. 21, 2022
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Steven Mintz reviews Robert Barsky’s book, Clamouring for Legal Protection, in Inside Higher Ed
Barsky's book asks what great works of literature can teach us about the plight of immigrants and refugees. Read MoreMar. 7, 2022
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Julie Su, Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor, to deliver Barrett Social Justice Lecture Feb. 24
Su is a nationally recognized expert on workers’ rights and civil rights who served as secretary for the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency before her appointment as deputy secretary of labor. Her talk, "Fulfilling the Unfulfilled Promise of Racial and Economic Justice," will draw on her trailblazing career as a civil rights and workers' rights attorney. Read MoreFeb. 11, 2022
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Wesley Dozier ’19, Dawn Deaner and Erica Perry to discuss Law and Organizing at VLS Feb. 1
Wesley Dozier '19 and Dawn Deaner of the Choosing Justice Initiative and Erica Perry of the Nashville Community Bail Fund will engage in a panel discussion sponsored by the Public Interest Ofiice on Tuesday, Feb. 1, at 1230 p.m. The event will be held live if circumstances permit. Read MoreJan. 15, 2022
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D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine to deliver the 2022 Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture Jan. 31 via Zoom
Racine was sworn in as the District of Columbia's first elected attorney general in 2015 and re-elected for a second term in 2018. His lecture is free and open to the public. Read MoreJan. 15, 2022