The Lorwin Lectureship, founded by the estate of Val and Madge Lorwin, features renowned scholars and experts who promote greater appreciation for the importance of civil rights.
Christina Sharpe is a scholar of English literature and Black Studies. Her academic research focuses Black visual studies, Black queer studies, and mid-nineteenth century to contemporary African-American Literature and Culture. Christina is the author of two books: "In the Wake: On Blackness and Being" and "Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects."
The ACLU of Oregon and the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics are this event featuring Jeffery Robinson. Based on guidance from public health experts, we feel that it is in the best interest of everyone for the organizers to reschedule these events for a later date. We apologize for any inconvenience caused by the cancellation.
Featuring Jeffery Robinson, Deputy Legal Director of the ACLU and director of the ACLU's Trone Center for Justice and Equality, which houses the organization's work on criminal justice, racial justice, and reform issues.
For more than three decades, attorney Jeffery Robinson has devoted his career to racial justice. In recent years, he has traveled the country speaking hard truths about race in America. Weaving heartbreak, humor, passion, and rage, Robinson takes us through this stolen history, showing how the legacy of slavery impacts every aspect of our society.
Sponsored by the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics's Program for Democratic Governance and the ACLU of Oregon. This event is being held in partnership with Community Alliance of Lane County (CALC), National Lawyers Guild, UO Chapter, Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) Springfield-Eugene, UO Black Women of Achievement, UO Department of Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies, UO Mixed Student Union, and UO Undergraduate Legal Studies Program.
The event is free and open to the public, but please register so we can make sure to accommodate everybody who wants to attend.
Come celebrate the accomplishments of Oregon Law students, faculty, and staff at this annual event.
The LRW Program and the Association of Legal Writing Directors (ALWD) are bringing 2019 Visiting Scholar Professor Olympia Duhart to Oregon Law for two days of presentations to students, faculty, and alumni/local practitioners. The presentations will draw on Professor Duhart's influential research and will focus on helping law students and practicing lawyers become more rhetorically effective and persuasive.
The Lorwin Lectureship, founded by the estate of Val and Madge Lorwin, features renowned scholars and experts who promote greater appreciation for the importance of civil rights.
Alicia Garza is an American civil rights activist and editorial writer who co-founded the Black Lives Matter movement. She has organized around the issues of health, student services and rights, rights for domestic workers, ending police brutality, anti-racism, and violence against trans and gender non-conforming people of color.
Oregon Law welcomes faculty and leaders from across the nation for a two-day conference designed to support and promote scholarship in the Legal Research and Writing (LRW) field.