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Lani Guinier to Speak at CCSU on Affirmative Action; April 28 NEW BRITIAN, CT-Central Connecticut State University will host a lecture titled, “Legitimacy of Affirmative Action in Higher Education,” by Lani Guinier, Harvard University’s Bennett Boskey Professor of Law, on Thursday, April 28, at 5:00 p.m. in Alumni Hall, located inside the Student Center. Lani Guinier is the first black woman tenured professor in Harvard Law School’s history. In 1993, President Clinton nominated her to be the first black woman to head the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice. Prior to the nomination, she served as a civil rights attorney for more than ten years and was in the Civil Rights Division during the Carter Administration as special assistant to then Assistant Attorney General Drew S. Days. Guinier has written extensively in law review articles, books (The Tyranny of the Majority, 1994; Becoming Gentlemen: Women, Law Schools and Institutional Change, 1995), and authored a personal and political memoir, Lift Every Voice: Turning a Civil Rights Setback into a New Vision of Social Justice (Simon and Schuster 1998). Before joining the Harvard Law School faculty, Guinier was a tenured professor at the University of Pennsylvania for ten years. At Harvard, Professor Guinier teaches courses on professional responsibility for public lawyers, law and the political process, and critical perspectives on race, gender, class and social change. Guinier has been recognized for her achievements including: the Champion of Democracy Award from the National Women's Political Caucus; the Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award from the ABA Commission on Women in the Profession; the Rosa Parks Award from the American Association of Affirmative Action; the Big Sisters Award; and the Sacks-Freund Award for Teaching Excellence from Harvard Law School. Guinier earned advanced degrees from Radcliffe College and Yale University Law School. For further information, contact CCSU Professor Felton Best at (860) 832-2190, or via e-mail at Bestf@ccsu.edu. ### |
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