Gerald Torres
2009 Oliver L. Brown Distinguished
Visiting Scholar for Diversity Issues

Tuesday, September 22, 2009 • 7:00 p.m.
Washburn University, Memorial Union Ballroom
1700 SW College Ave. • Topeka, Kansas

Free and open to the public
RSVP by September 17, 2009 to
(785) 235-3939 or brownfound@juno.com

This event is the keynote for Washburn's Affirmative Action: Requiem or Renaissance Conference.

Gerald Torres is a former president of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). He is a leading figure in critical race theory. Torres has served as deputy assistant attorney general for the Environmental and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice and as counsel to then U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno.

His latest book, The Miner's Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy, was written with Harvard Law professor Lani Guinier (book website | HUP website). The book is one of the most provocative and challenging books on race written in years. His many articles include "Who Owns the Sky?" published in the Pace Environmental Law Review, "Taking and Giving: Police Power, Public Value, and Private Right" published in the Environmental Law, and "Translating Yonnondio by Precedent and Evidence: The Mashpee Indian Case" published in the Duke Law Journal. Torres received the Legal Services Award from the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) for his work to advance the legal rights of Latinos. He teaches at the University of Texas Law School in Austin.

September program co-sponsored by: Washburn University .

Presented by the Brown Foundation for Educational Equity, Excellence and Research and the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site as part of the 2009-2010 program series, Unfolding Untold Stories. Download the 2009-2010 program brochure (1.8 MB PDF).
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