CU Law Diversity & Inclusive Excellence Leadership Series, Program #6:
An Exploration of the Issues of Diversity and Inclusion in the Legal Workplace

When	Tuesday, March 1, 2016 12:00 PM - 12:50 PM
Location	Room 207
For	Faculty; Staff; Students; Alumni
Cost	Free

LET?S TALK ABOUT IT! This is the first of several upcoming spontaneous open forums for students, faculty and staff to gather and freely share your thoughts/opinions about a current event. The topic of this gathering looks at recent news articles concerning the fact that, immediately following the death of Justice Scalia, Georgetown Law School's dean issued a Statement and Press release, ?Georgetown Law Mourns the Loss of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia,? in which he highly praised Justice Scalia on behalf of the ?Georgetown Community.? Then, voices were raised in praise and in protest of the dean?s sweeping praise! Two Georgetown law professors, Mike Seidman and Gary Peller, wrote emails strongly disagreeing with the dean?s high praise of Justice Scalia and his inclusion of ?the Georgetown Community? in that sentiment. In response, Professors Nick Rosenkrantz and Randy Barnett posted their own email decrying Seidman?s and Peller?s sentiments and citing indications that many conservative law students were ?traumatized, hurt, shaken and angry?. In particular, the professors noted that many of those students who were in Professor Peller?s class would not now feel free to participate freely in Peller?s class. The law school?s Black Law Students Association then issued an open letter to the Georgetown Law Community supporting the right of individual students to mourn the death of Justice Scalia, but also pointing out that many Black students were also ?traumatized, hurt, shaken and angry? when, for example, the law school refused to make timely statements regarding ?racialized policing;? when classroom micro-aggressions from students and professors were dismissed; and when Justice Scalia, just months before his death, stated that ?There are those who contend that it does not benefit African-Americans to get them into the University of Texas where they do not do well, as opposed to having them go to a less-advanced school, a less - a slower-track school where they do well.? COME EXPRESS YOUR OPINIONS AND HEAR THE OPINIONS OF OTHERS. THERE ARE NO SPEAKERS. JUST YOU! LET'S TALK ABOUT IT. BYOL

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Contact	SUSANI HARRIS susani.harris@colorado.edu
Sponsored By	Butler Snow, LLP
Moderated By	SuSaNI Harris
Speakers	TBA