Presented by the University of Richmond School of Law and the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard Law School

This conference will explore the condition of public education 40 years after San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez, 411 U.S. 1(1973). The Rodriguez case, considered one of the major civil rights setbacks in recent decades, held that the federal constitution did not guarantee a right to education. The conference will bring together scholars, educators, and practitioners to examine the state of educational opportunity in the United States, to offer a critique of the effectiveness of existing efforts to advance equal educational opportunity and to develop and analyze novel approaches to achieving this important national goal.

Please visit law.richmond.edu/rodriguez for the detailed conference agenda.

With the 25th Annual Emanuel Emroch Lecture by:
Charles J. Ogletree, Jesse Climenko Professor of Law and Director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, Harvard Law School

Confirmed speakers and moderators include:

• Derek Black, Professor of Law, University of South Carolina School of Law
• Susan Eaton, Research Director, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, Harvard Law School
• David Hinojosa, Regional Counsel, MALDEF Southwest Regional Office
• Benjamin T. Jealous, President and CEO, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
• William Koski, Eric and Nancy Wright Professor of Clinical Education and Director of the Youth and Education Law Project, Stanford Law School
• Laura McNeal, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Louisville Louis D. Brandeis School of Law
• Michael A. Olivas, William B. Bates Distinguished Chair of Law and Director, Institute of Higher Education Law & Governance, University of Houston Law Center
• Michael Rebell, Professor of Law and Education Practice, Teachers College, Columbia University and Executive Director of the Campaign for Educational Equity
• Kimberly Jenkins Robinson, Professor of Law, University of Richmond School of Law
• Mildred Robinson, Henry L. and Grace Doherty Charitable Foundation Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law
• James Ryan, William L. Matheson & Robert M. Morgenthau Distinguished Professor of Law, F. Palmer Weber Research Professor of Civil Liberties and Human Rights, and Director of the Program in Law and Public Service, University of Virginia School of Law
• David Sciarra, Executive Director, Education Law Center and Lecturer, University of Virginia School of Law
• Dr. Genevieve Siegel-Hawley, Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership, Virginia Commonwealth University
• Maree Sneed, Partner, Hogan Lovells
• Amy Stuart Wells, Professor of Sociology and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University