As DePaul University College of Law's spring 2012 Enlund Scholar-in-Residence, Harvard Law Professor Kenneth W. Mack will deliver a lecture titled "A Civil Rights History in the Age of Obama" on Thursday, April 12 at the DePaul Center, 1 E. Jackson Blvd., Room 8005, Chicago.
Professor Mack will discuss ways to reframe the conventional methods of teaching and writing the history of the civil rights movement, with a particular emphasis on the legal history of the African American civil rights movement. He will suggest that the “Age of Obama” makes such a reframing imperative at our present moment.
The lecture and reception are free and open to the public, but a reservation is required by April 9, 2012. To register, please visit law.depaul.edu/enlund.
DePaul University College of Law is an accredited Illinois MCLE provider. This lecture has been approved for up to one (1) hour of CLE credit.
Professor Mack served as co-director of the Harvard Law School Legal History Colloquium for four years, and as co-director of the annual workshop, “Race-Making and Law-Making inthe Long Civil Rights Movement,” at Harvard’s Charles Warren Center for American History for the 2008-2009 academic year. During 2004-2005, Professor Mack was a faculty fellow at Harvard’s Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics. He was an Alphonse Fletcher Sr. Fellow with the Fletcher Foundation in 2007-2008. He also held research fellowships with the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation at Princeton University, and the Ford Foundation/National Research Council. Professor Mack’s teaching and research areas include American legal and constitutional history, civil rights history, race and the law, and property. His scholarly work focuses on group identity in the civil rights era, and has been published in the
Harvard Law Review,
Journal of American History,
Yale Law Journal,
Law and History Review,
Law & Social Inquiry, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, and in other scholarly and popular outlets. He is the author of
Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer, and co-editor of
The New Black: What Has Changed--and What Has Not--with Race in America. In 2003, Professor Mack delivered the annual Hugo L. Black Lecture at the University of Alabama, and in 2009, he delivered the annual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture at Rutgers University.
Enlund Scholar-in-Residence
Established in 1988, thanks to a gift from the late E. Stanley Enlund (’42), the endowed Enlund Scholar-in-Residence Program deepens our understanding of the law and its role in society. The College of Law selects the scholars, jurists and lawyers who serve as Enlund Scholars based on the meaningful contributions they have made to the development of law and legal institutions through their research, advocacy and practice.
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