Please join us on April 7-9, 2006 for an important Symposium entitled Strategies for Addressing Poverty and Inequality, at the UDC Auditorium, UDC David A. Clarke School of Law, 4200 Connecticut Ave., NW.
Numerous speakers and panelists will focus on issues of racial fairness, the access to justice movement and the role of the legal profession and clinical legal education in addressing poverty and inequality. Substantive issues will include affordable housing, economic justice and making public systems work for children. (See below for details)
Featured speakers will include JoAnn Wallace, Executive Director of the National Legal Aid and Defender Association; Barbara Arnwine, Executive Director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights; Ted Shaw, Director General of the NAACP LDF; Wade Henderson Executive Director of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights; Prof. Peter Edelman of Georgetown Law Center and Chair of the D.C. Access to Justice Commission; our own Prof. Edgar S. Cahn; and Helaine Barnett, President of the Legal Services Corporation.
We will continue to provide more detail, via e-mail, as it becomes available. To join the e-mail list, send a note to JLibertelli@udc.edu.
This event is free of charge and open to the public. Feel free to forward this announcement.
ACCREDITATION CELEBRATION:
On Friday evening, after the Symposium sessions, we will celebrate the full accreditation of our law school. As Edgar Cahn has quipped, the accreditation of this law school represents victory for "the good guys" in what has been, taking the long view, our own modern "Thirty Years War." Victories of this magnitude don't come often. We hope you will come share this one with us! Again, this event is open to the public and free of charge.
SYMPOSIUM FRIDAY SCHEDULE
8:30 - 9:00 Refreshments, meet and greet
9:00 - 9:30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: WADE HENDERSON, Executive Director, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights and Joseph L. Rauh Professor of Public Interest Law, UDC David A. Clarke School of Law
9:45 - 12:30 AFFORDABLE HOUSING PROGRAM
9:45 - 10:30 Panel 1: The National Crisis in Affordable Housing
12:00 - 12:45 Panel 3: Housing Production Strategies
1:00 - 2:00 LUNCH SPEAKERS: BARBARA ARNWINE, Executive Director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, HELAINE BARNETT, President of the Legal Services Corporation, and JOANN WALLACE, Executive Director of the National Legal Aid and Defender Association
2:15 - 5:15 ACCESS TO JUSTICE PROGRAM
2:15 - 3:30 Panel 1: New Directions for Lawyers in Race & Poverty Issues: The Nat'l View
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