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Randall Kennedy: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law (9/20/13)

from Randall Kennedy: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law held on September 20, 2013

Kennedy reckons with one of the most explosively contentious and sharply divisive issues in American society, sharing the little-known history of affirmative action and exploring the policy's pros and cons. Kennedy was awarded the 1998 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for Race, Crime, and the Law. Now a professor at Harvard Law School, he formerly served as a law clerk for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court.

Speakers

Randall Kennedy

Michael R. Klein Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Author, For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law

LaDoris Hazzard Cordell

Former Municipal and Superior Court Judge, Santa Clara County—Moderator

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