Sept. 26, 2007
EVENT ANNOUNCEMENTNAACP Legal Defense Fund's Shaw to deliver Cantor lecture
DATE: 9 a.m. Oct. 4, 2007.
EVENT: Theodore Shaw, outgoing director-counsel and president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, will deliver the fifth annual University of Michigan Nancy Cantor Distinguished Lecture on Intellectual Diversity, named in honor of former Provost Cantor, now chancellor of Syracuse University. The lecture is free and open to the public.
Shaw, a member of the U-M Law School faculty from 1990-93, will address "The Betrayal of Brown: The Struggle Over the Place of Race in America."
"Ted Shaw is one of the nation's leading voices on the legal issues surrounding diversity in higher education," said Lester Monts, senior vice provost for academic affairs and convener of the Nancy Cantor Distinguished Lecture on Intellectual Diversity. "His knowledge of the University of Michigan's efforts to maintain diversity as an important part of its mission makes him the ideal person to present this year's Cantor lecture."
Although Shaw has served for three years in his current role, from which he will resign Feb. 1, 2008, his tenure at the LDF has encompassed more than 22 years. During that time, he has been at the forefront of the national debate on affirmative action. He served as lead counsel for black and Latino student intervenors who joined the U-M undergraduate admissions lawsuit, Gratz v. Bollinger—one of two cases heard in 2003 by the U.S. Supreme Court.
In addition to affirmative action, Shaw and the LDF have been at the forefront of issues involving victims of Hurricane Katrina—including filing lawsuits regarding distribution of federal funding, threats to purge voter records for displaced residents and delays getting wait-listed children enrolled in school.
Shaw graduated from Wesleyan University with honors and from Columbia University School of Law, where he was a Charles Evans Hughes Fellow. After graduation he worked as a trial attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice from 1979-82.
PLACE: Mendelssohn Theater, Michigan League, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
SPONSORS: Senior Vice Provost for Academic Affairs in conjunction with the National Center for Institutional Diversity.
Contact: Deborah Greene
Phone: (734) 763-4008
Related Categories: Public Policy
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