Webinar: “Lift Every Voice: The Life and Legacy of Professor Lani Guinier ’74” Yale Law School, October 30, 2021 @ 9:30 am – 4:00 pm

Editor-in-Chief, Professor Intisar Rabb will participate as “discussion leader.”

9:30 – 9:45 am:

Welcome and Opening Remarks

9:45 – 11:15 am:  “Keep Watching the Canary”: Voting Rights and Democratic Engagement: 

Dean Heather Gerken, Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law, Yale Law School

Gerald Torres, Professor of Environmental Justice and Professor of Law, Yale School of Environment and Yale LawSchool, Class of 1977

11:15 am – 12:45 pm:

“Good Morning, Gentlemen”: Educational Access and Transformative Pedagogy

Discussion Leaders

12:45 – 1:00 pm:

Break

 1:00 – 2:30 pm: “Becoming Wind-Changers”: Demosprudence of Law and Social Movements:

Discussion Leaders

2:30 – 4:00 pm: Keynote Conversation and Closing Remarks:

Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, Inc. (LDF) (Keynote)

Gerald Torres, Professor of Environmental Justice and Professor of Law, Yale School of Environment and Yale Law School, Class of 1977

Nikolas (Niko) Bowie, Assistant Professor of Law, Harvard Law School (Yale University, Class of 2009)