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Upcoming EventsWeaver Institute Lecture Butler Lecture, featuring Michele Alexander William Howard Taft Lecture on Constitutional Law Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice Event |
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Weaver Institute for Law and Psychiatry Hosts Lecture on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 
On October 3, 2011 at 12:15 p.m. the Weaver Institute for Law and Psychiatry will host a lecture featuring Professor Michael Stein, Co-founder and Executive Director of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, as well as Cabell Professor at William & Mary Law School. His lecture is titled “Something about us without us? Global trends in legal capacity under the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities.” 
Once again this fall, a new class of students began at the College of Law—each coming from diverse backgrounds and experiences. But another new face inside the College of Law this semester is that of Keneilwe “Kenny” Modise, a practicing attorney from Gaborone, the capital city of Botswana. 
One of the biggest decisions for most out-of-state students attending the College of Law, is whether to take the bar exam in Ohio or back home. Marilu Gresens ’10, who grew up in a small town in upstate New York, faced that same question and ultimately opted to take the New York State bar exam. But Gresens is not working in her home state—in fact, nowhere even near New York.
As the United States celebrates the nation’s “triumph over race” with the election of Barack Obama, the majority of young black men in major American cities are locked behind bars or labeled felons for life. Jim Crow laws were wiped off the books decades ago, but today an astounding percentage of the African American community is warehoused in prisons or trapped in a permanent, second-class status—much like their grandparents before them, who lived under an explicit system of control. In this incisive critique, civil rights lawyer-turned-legal scholar Professor Michelle Alexander (the Ohio State University) argues that we have not ended racial caste in America, we have merely redesigned it. Don’t miss this event on October 6, 2011 at 4:00 p.m. 
Paul Caron, the Charles Hartsock Professor of Law, has been named one of the 100 Most Influential People in Tax and Accounting for the sixth year in a row by