Randall L. Kennedy

Tanner Lectures on Human Values: "In Praise of Racial Liberalism: Lecture II-How Can We Achieve It?"

 Lecture II-How Can We Achieve It?

Date
Nov 15, 2024, 4:30 pm6:30 pm
Audience
Free and open to the public

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Event Description

Randall Kennedy's lectures will posit the ends and means suitable currently for advancing the cause of racial justice in America. Lecture one will focus on aims: what should racial "justice" mean today? Lecture two will focus on strategy: what are optimal ways of proceeding in a polarized polity in which racial prejudices and resentments constitute significant impediments to needed reforms.

Randall L. Kennedy is Michael R. Klein Professor of Law, Harvard Law School. He attended Princeton University, '77, and Yale Law School. He clerked for Judge J. Skelly Wright and for Justice Thurgood Marshall. A member of the bars of the District of Columbia and the United States Supreme Court, he is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He is the author of several books, the most recent of which is "Say it Loud! On Race, Law, Culture and History."

Commentators:

Richard Rothstein, Distinguished Fellow of the Economic Policy Institute and a Senior Fellow (emeritus) at the Thurgood Marshall Institute of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Georgetown University

 


 

Sponsors
  • Department of History
  • Department of Philosophy
  • Department of Politics
  • James Madison Program
  • Program in Law and Normative Thinking
  • Program in Law and Public Policy
  • Princeton Policy Advocacy Clinic
  • Princeton Public Lectures
  • Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
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