THE ROLE OF RACE IN LAW, MARKETS, AND SOCIAL STRUCTURE

Georgetown University Law Center and Harvard Law School, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice

Description:
The Georgetown University Law Center-Harvard University Law School Conference on Social and Economic Inequality: The Role of Law, Markets and Social Structure is designed to further stimulate ongoing integration of economics and sociology, as well as law and sociology to address the problems of persistent economic and social inequality. The conference and the associated book arising from it are intended to prepare the way for a second generation of interdisciplinary work at the crossroads of three disciplines. We seek to facilitate exploration of the conceptual intersections of law, economics, and sociology to address problems of persistent structural economic and social inequality.

The participation of legal scholars, who are concerned with challenging the legal frameworks that undergird persistently unequal distribution of material resources, is significant. There is a growing interest among legal scholars in collaborative interdisciplinary research across a broad range of subject areas. Our focus on economic and social inequality seeks to contribute new perspectives on one of the nation's most intractable dilemmas.

Date: Friday, March 24th 2006 8:30- 6:00 p.m

Location: Hotung Bldg Room 2000., Georgetown University Law Center

Reservations required: RSVP for Conference and Lunch
by March 10, 2005 to:
specialevents@law.georgetown.edu or
202.662.9548.

**Make checks for $50.00 for lunch payable to Georgetown University, and mail to: Shari Thomas, Office of Special Events, Georgetown University Law Center, 600 New Jersey Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. 20001

Conference Schedule
8-8:30a.m Continental breakfast for attendees
8:30-8:45 -Intro and Overview- Professor Emma Coleman Jordan, Georgetown Univ. Law Center and Professor Charles Ogletree, Harvard University Law School
8:45-10:00-Panel I.

INEQUALITY: PERSPECTIVES IN THREE DISCIPLINES: ECONOMICS, LAW, AND SOCIOLOGY

MODERATOR: Emma Coleman Jordan
Professor of Law
Georgetown University
PANELISTS
Professor Richard McAdams, Guy Jones Professor of Law, University of Illinois, Visiting Professor of Law University of Chicago-
Professor Emily Houh, University of Cincinnati
Professor Robert Ashford, Syracuse University,

10:00-10:15 Coffee Break
10:15-12:00-PANEL II-
PROPERTY OWNERSHIP AND ASSET EQUALITY
MODERATOR:
Steven Salop
Professor of Economics and Law
Georgetown University

PANELISTS:
Thomas M. Shapiro
Pokross Professor of Law and Social Policy
Brandeis University

Robin Paul Malloy
E.I. White Chair and Distinguished Professor of Law; Senior Associate Dean; Director, Program in Law and Market Economy; Professor of Economics
Syracuse University

Daria Roithmayr
Professor of Law, University of Illinois
Visiting Professor of Law, University of Minnesota

Bernadette Atuahene
Assistant Professor of Law
Chicago-Kent College of Law

12:15-1:15- - KEYNOTE SPEAKER- Professor Glenn Loury-“The Future of the Black Freedom Struggle: The Role of Stigma in the Production of Economic Inequality”

1:15-2:15- PANEL III-
EDUCATIONAL EQUALITY
MODERATOR
Charles Ogletree
Jesse Climenko Professor of Law; Director, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice
Harvard University

PANELISTS:
Anita Hill
Professor of Social Policy, Law, and Women’s Studies
Brandeis University

Thomas Hertz
Assistant Professor of Economics
American University

Robin A. Lenhardt
Associate Professor of Law
Fordham University

2:15-3:15 - PANEL IV

ECONOMIC INEQUALITY AND THE DEVELOPING WORLD

MODERATOR:
Angela Harris
Professor of Law
University of California, Berkeley

PANELISTS:
James Angresano
Professor of Political Economy, Albertson College of Idaho
Visiting Professor of International Economy, Universita' Degli Studi Di Trento, Italia

Steven A. Ramirez
Professor of Law
Washburn University

Carmen G. Gonzalez
Associate Professor of Law
Seattle University

Ruth Gordon
Professor of Law
Villanova University
3:15-3:30- Afternoon Break
3:30-5:00- PANEL V-

WORKPLACE EQUALITY

MODERATOR:
Harry Holzer
Professor of Public Policy
Georgetown University

PANELISTS:
Ian Ayres
William K. Townsend Professor of Law
Yale Law School

Sumi Cho
Professor of Law
DePaul University

Devon Carbado
Professor of Law
University of California, Los Angeles

5:00-6:00 Closing Discussion