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Thurgood Marshall Memorial Lecture featuring
Martha Minow
Dean and Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor
Harvard Law School
 
4:00 - 5:00 p.m. Lecture
RWU School of Law
Appellate Courtroom

Pursuing Justice in Multicultural Societies:  Gender, Religion, Conflict and Compromise

Justice Thurgood Marshall’s commitment to justice reached beyond racial justice to issues of gender, religion, poverty, and age.  With his example in mind, how should advocates approach conflicts between claims of gender discrimination and assertions of religious freedom?  How much room should secular democracy’s ensure for religious and ethnic subgroups – including room to treat women differently from men?  Alongside court-ordered enforcement of right, political compromises may secure solutions and so may legal structures of federalism and private ordering.  Pursuing justice with attention to multiple aspects of individual identity calls for a wide set of legal and political tools. 

The School of Law presents its fifth lecture in this series, which honors the memory of Thurgood Marshall.  Thurgood Marshall was a key architect of the legal strategy that convinced the Supreme Court to declare unconstitutional the doctrine of "separate but equal," which had allowed racial segregation in public education and many other aspects of American life.  Thurgood Marshall later served with distinction and as a protector of civil rights as Solicitor General of the United States and later as the first African-American Justice on the United States Supreme Court.
 
Sponsored by Hinckley Allen Snyder LLP.

Reception immediately following the lecture.

RSVP to the Office of Alumni, Programs & Events at (401) 254-4659 or lawevents@rwu.edu