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Thursday, April 1, 2004
2:00 p.m. Registration Opens
4:00 p.m. Brown 101 (for all Yale students
and all conference attendees)
--- 4:10-5:30 p.m. Lecture and Q&A with Theodore
M. Shaw, Associate Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense
& Educational Fund, Inc.
--- 5:45-6:45 p.m. Breakout into small groups led
by Howard University School of Law professors
· Professors Carmia N. Caesar, Lisa A. Crooms, Okianer Christian Dark,
Fulani N. Ipyana, Gwen R. Majette, Reginald Robinson
Introduction by -- Drew S. Days, III, Alfred M. Rankin Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Break for Dinner
8:00 p.m. OPENING ADDRESS, Elaine R. Jones, President
and Director-Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense & Educational
Fund, Inc.
Welcome by -- Anthony T. Kronman, Dean of the Yale Law School
Introduction by -- Kurt L. Schmoke, Dean of the Howard University School of Law
Friday, April 2, 2004
8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m. The Road to Brown: Law and Politics
in the 1940s and 1950s
· Mary L. Dudziak, Judge Edward J. & Ruey L.
Guirado Professor of Law and History, University of Southern
California
· Honorable Nathaniel R. Jones, Senior Counsel,
Blank Rome LLP
· Richard Kluger, Author Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America’s Struggle for Equality
· William Taylor, Chair, Citizens' Commission on
Civil Rights
Moderated by -- Drew S. Days, III, Alfred M. Rankin Professor
of Law, Yale Law School
10:30 a.m. Break
10:45 a.m. What Brown v. Board of Education
Should Have Said
· Michael J. Klarman, James Monroe Distinguished Professor of Law,
University of Virginia
· Catharine A. MacKinnon, Elizabeth A. Long Professor
of Law, University of Michigan Law School
· Honorable Michael W. McConnell, U.S. Court of
Appeals, Tenth Circuit
· Dennis Parker, Chief of the Civil Rights Bureau, Office of the New York State Attorney General
Moderated by -- Jack M. Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional
Law and the First Amendment, Yale Law School
12:15 p.m. Lunch
1:30 p.m. Beyond Brown: Courts, Congress,
and Civil Rights
· Jeff Berman, Chief Counsel to U.s. Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY); and Democratic Chief Counsel, United States Senate Judiciary Subcomittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts
· Kathleen Cleaver, Senior Lecturer, African American Studies Department, Yale University
· Honorable Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, former U.S.
Attorney General and Under Secretary of State
· Honorable Louis H. Pollak, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Moderated by -- Reva Siegel, Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law and Professor of American Studies, Yale Law School
3:00 p.m. Break
3:30 p.m. Equal But Separate? The Shape
of Public Education in America Today
· Robert Jackson, New York City Council Member, and Co-Founder, Campaign for Fiscal Equity
· Reginald Mayo, Superintendent of Schools, New Haven Board of Education
· Gary Orfield, Professor of Education and Social
Policy, Harvard Graduate School of Education
· Dacia Toll, Director and Co-Founder, Amistad
Academy
Moderated by -- Stephen T. Yandle, Lecturer in Law, Yale Law
School
6:30 p.m. Banquet & Party
Saturday, April 3, 2004
8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m. Affirmative Action: Where Are
We Now?
·Lincoln Caplan, Knight Senior Journalist, Yale Law School, and Editor, Legal Affairs Magazine
· John H. McWhorter, Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute, and Associate Professor of Linguistics,
University of California, Berkeley
· Charles J. Ogletree, Jesse Climenko Professor
of Law, Harvard Law School
Moderated by -- Richard Brooks, Associate Professor of Law, Yale Law School
11:00 a.m. Brown as Icon: Discussing the Largeness of
Brown
· Neil T. Gotanda, Professor of Law, Western State
University College of Law
· Randall L. Kennedy, Professor of Law, Harvard
Law School
· Richard Kluger, Author Simple Justice: The History of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America’s Struggle for Equality
· Gay J. McDougall, Executive Director, Global Rights
· Gerald N. Rosenberg, Associate Professor of Political Science and Lecturer in Law, University of Chicago
Moderated by -- Kenji Yoshino, Professor of Law, Yale Law
School
12:30 - 2:00 p.m. Lunch Discussion: What Brown Means to
Me
· Melba Pattillo Beals, Author, Member of the Little
Rock Nine
· Cheryl Brown Henderson, President, Brown Foundation
for Educational Equity, Excellence and Research
Moderated by -- Harlon Dalton, Professor of Law, Yale Law
School
2:30 - 4:00 p.m. Perspectives from the
Frontline: A Conversation with Brown Litigators, the Honorable
Constance Baker Motley and the Honorable Robert Carter
Moderated by -- Drew S. Days, III, Alfred
M. Rankin Professor of Law, Yale Law School
4:00 p.m. Break
4:30 p.m. CLOSING ADDRESS,
U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (NY)
Introduction by -- Anthony T. Kronman, Dean of the Yale Law School
Reception Following
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