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Keynote Address sponsored by

Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP

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“The Civil Rights Movement Goes to School”

Presented by
Justin Driver
Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law
Yale Law School

Wednesday, January 26
4:00 p.m.
Arthur M. Goldberg ’66 Classroom (Room 202)
John F. Scarpa Hall

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The �޻���ֱ�� University Charles Widger School of Law will mark its annual commemoration of the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., with a keynote lecture as part of a University-wide celebration.

Justin Driver is the Robert R. Slaughter Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He teaches and writes in the area of constitutional law and is the author of��The Schoolhouse Gate: Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind. The book was selected as a��Washington Post��Notable Book of the Year and an Editors’ Choice of��The New York Times Book Review.��The Schoolhouse Gate��also received the Steven S. Goldberg Award for Distinguished Scholarship in Education Law and was a finalist for the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award and Phi Beta Kappa’s Ralph Waldo Emerson Book Award.

A recipient of the American Society for Legal History’s William Nelson Cromwell Article Prize, Driver has a distinguished publication record in the nation’s leading law reviews. He has also written extensively for general audiences, including pieces in��Slate,��The Atlantic,��The New York Times,��The New York Times Book Review,��The Washington Post, and��The New Republic, where he was a contributing editor. A member of the American Law Institute and of the American Constitution Society’s Academic Advisory Board, Driver is also an editor of the��Supreme Court Review.

This event will take place on Wednesday, January 26 at 4:00 p.m. in the��Arthur M. Goldberg ’66 Classroom (Room 202) of��John F. Scarpa Hall. A book signing and reception will follow in the Arthur M. Goldberg ’66 Commons. For those who wish to join virtually, a livestream link will be available on the webpage the day of the event.