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Past Event
Randall Kennedy: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law
Kennedy reckons with one of the most explosively contentious and sharply divisive issues in American society, sharing the little-known history of affirmative action and exploring the policy's pros and cons. Kennedy was awarded the 1998 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for Race, Crime, and the Law. Now a professor at Harvard Law School, he formerly served as a law clerk for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court.
September 20, 2013
The Commonwealth Club of California
555 Post St.
San Francisco, 94102
United States
Speakers
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Randall Kennedy
Michael R. Klein Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Author, For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law
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LaDoris Hazzard Cordell
Former Municipal and Superior Court Judge, Santa Clara County—Moderator