April 14, 2008
Scholars Guinier, Torres discuss law and social
movements
sharon.dickman@rochester.edu
Law and civil rights scholars Lani Guinier and Gerald
Torres will speak at the University at 3 p.m. Friday, April 18, on their
theory of the transformative lawmaking potential of social movements.
Lani Guinier
Gerald Torres
Their joint public address for the biannual Frederick
Douglass Lectures honors the historic activist and orator Frederick
Douglass, and is sponsored by the Frederick Douglass Institute for African
and African-American Studies at the University. The lecture will be held in
the Hawkins-Carlson Room of Rush Rhees Library on the River Campus; a
reception following the talk will be hosted by the Susan B. Anthony
Institute for Gender and Women’s Studies in the Welles-Brown Room of
the library.
Guinier, the Bennett Boskey Professor of Law at
Harvard University and a well-known speaker on issues of race, gender, and
democratic decision-making, delivered the first of the Frederick Douglass
Lectures in October 2006. Torres, the Bryant Smith Chair in Law at the
University of Texas at Austin, is a leading figure in critical race theory
and a former president of the Association of American Law Schools.
The newly established Frederick Douglass Medal will be
presented in further recognition of Douglass’ legacy as an activist,
orator, and man of letters. Guinier and Torres will each receive one.
“This presentation of the Frederick Douglass
Medal to Lani Guinier and Gerald Torres commends these distinguished
scholars and citizens for contributions that reflect the spirit and values
of Frederick Douglass,” said President Seligman.
Guests for the lecture can stop at the visitors’
information booth for information on free parking and shuttle service.
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