GAINESVILLE, Fla. – More than a year after the shooting death of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, many legal, social and cultural questions raised by the case are still being discussed across the country. The Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations will analyze a number of these questions during the 10th annual CSRRR Spring [...]
Time: Noon Location: Chesterfield Smith Ceremonial Classroom, HOL 180, UF Law Speaker: Al Brophy of North Carolina Law Brophy writes at the intersections of race, history and property law. He is the author of “Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Riot of 1921, Race, Reparations, Reconciliation.”
Harvard Law Professor Charles Ogletree gives the UF Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations’ (CSRRR) 2011 Spring Lecture. His talk is titled, “Are We in A Post-Racial Society? Race in America Today.”
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Legal scholar and Ohio State University Moritz College of Law Professor Michelle Alexander will visit the University of Florida Levin College of Law to discuss her new book, “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness,” Wednesday, Sept. 22 at noon in UF Law’s Chesterfield Smith Ceremonial Classroom (Holland [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla.—United States District Judge Stephan P. Mickle (JD 70) will be honored by the University of Florida’s Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations Friday, March 28, in an event celebrating his 10 years on the federal bench. There are no more seats available for the event, which will be held at [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla.—Ten teams of University of Florida law students will compete in the Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations’ Griot Race, Law & Justice Oral Competition Saturday, Feb. 23, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., in the Chesterfield Smith Ceremonial Classroom (180 Holland Hall) at the UF Levin College of Law. This event is free [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla.—A series of several high-profile incidents in recent months—from Mel Gibson’s anti-Semitic meltdown to more serious cases involving the fatal undercover police killings of groom-to-be Sean Bell and an 88-year-old grandmother, Kathryn Johnston—have again brought attention to the subject of racial issues and will serve as the launching point for discussion at a forum [...]
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Joyce Ann Brown, author of Justice Denied and president of Mothers (Fathers) for the Advancement of Social Systems Inc. (MASS), will present a lecture at noon on Wednesday, Nov. 8, at the University of Florida’s Levin College of Law. Brown will talk about her experiences of being accused, convicted, and sentenced to [...]