Panel I: 3:30 P.M. - 5:00 P.M. (McDonough, 520)
Educational Policy Today: In the Shadow of the Desegregation Cases
Chair : T. Alexander Aleinikoff (Georgetown)
James Forman Jr. (Georgetown), “The Progressive History of School Choice”
Charles Lawrence (Georgetown), “Forbidden Conversations: On Race, Privacy and Community”
William Taylor (Chair, Citizens' Commission on Civil Rights), “School Reform as a Legacy of Brown”
Dinner for Invited Guests: 6:00 P.M. – 7:20 P.M. (Library, 5th Floor)
Chair: Susan Low Bloch (Georgetown)
Keynote Speaker: Sr. Judge Louis H. Pollak, Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Panel II: 7:30 P.M. - 9:30 P.M. (McDonough, 520)
Bolling Remembered
Convener: Susan Low Bloch (Georgetown)
Chair : Roger Wilkins (George Mason University; Vice Chairman, NAACP Legal Defense Fund Board)
James Nabrit III, (Counsel to and Board member of the NAACP Inc. Fund and son of plaintiffs' attorney in Bolling)
Eleanor Holmes Norton, (Georgetown; D.C. Delegate to Congress; D. C. student in 1954)
Friday, April 16
Panel III: 9:00 A.M. - 10:30 A.M.(Gewirz, 12th Floor)
Bolling in Historical Context
Chair : Daniel Ernst (Georgetown)
Jack Balkin (Yale), “The Truman Show: Bolling and Nonjudicial Precedents"
Michael Klarman (U. Va.), “Why Bolling was Hard but Desegregation in D.C. was (Relatively) Easy”
Elizabeth Patterson (Georgetown), “A Gradual ‘[U]nfolding of Christian Social Justice': The Desegregation of Catholic Schools in Washington, D.C.”
Wendell Pritchett (U. Penn.), “A National Issue: Segregation in D.C. and the Civil Rights Movement at Mid-Century”
Panel IV: 10:45 A.M. - 12:15 P.M. (Gewirz, 12th Floor)
Bolling and
Substantive Due Process
Chair and Commentator :
Mark Tushnet (Georgetown)
David Bernstein (George Mason University), “The Equal Protection Component of Due Process During the Lochner Era”
Richard Primus (U. Mich.), “ Bolling Alone”
Peter Rubin (Georgetown), “Substantive Due Process, Korematsu and Bolling”
