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Bolling v. Sharpe Conference: April 15 - 16, 2004 ruler
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(To Be Posted Following the Conference)

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”

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)

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”

Revised April 7, 2004