Brandon Winford discusses his new book, John Hervey Wheeler, Black Banking, and the Economic Struggle for Civil Rights. Wheeler was one of the civil rights movement's most influential leaders. In articulating a bold vision of regional prosperity grounded in full citizenship and economic power for African Americans, this banker, lawyer, and visionary played a leading role in the fight for racial and economic equality throughout North Carolina. Wheeler began his career as a teller at Mechanics and Farmers Bank and rose to become bank president.

The Hon. Richard Gergel, U.S. District Judge for the District of South Carolina, speaks on his new book "Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard and the Awakening of President Harry S. Truman and Judge J. Waties Waring." The book details the impact of the blinding of Stg. Woodard on the thinking of President Truman and Judge Waring, and shows their influential roles in changing America's civil rights history. A question and answer session, moderated by Bolch Judicial Institute Director David Levi, follows Judge Gergel's presentation.

H. Timothy Lovelace, Jr., the John Hope Franklin Visiting Professor of American Legal History, gives the annual Robert R. Wilson Lecture titled, "Civil Rights as Human Rights." A member of the faculty of the Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Professor Lovelace is an expert in legal history, civil rights, human rights, and constitutional law. Before joining the Indiana Law faculty, he served as the assistant director of the Center for the Study of Race and Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. Professor Lovelace earned his J.D. and Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.

Professors Trina Jones, Thavolia Glymph, H. Jefferson Powell, and Neil Siegel give their perspectives on the historical and contemporary significance and implications of monuments as well as other symbols in the wake of recent events in Charlottesville, Virginia, and elsewhere.

Sponsored by the Program in Public Law.

The Duke Forum for Law and Social Change held its annual symposium on Feb. 10, 2017. The symposium was titled "Dividing Lines: Borders, Race, and Religion in America."

Opening remarks by Duke Forum for Law and Social Change Editor-in-Chief, Melany Cruz Burgos '17

Session 1: Separate and Definitely not Equal – the Demonization of Immigrants and the American Dream: Presentation by Laura A. Hernández, Professor of Law at Baylor Law School

The Duke Forum for Law and Social Change held its annual symposium on Feb. 10, 2017. The symposium was titled "Dividing Lines: Borders, Race, and Religion in America."

Session 2: Explaining Racial Disparities Across U.S. Police Departments: Voting, Demographics, and the Composition of the Police Force | Presentation by Frank R. Baumgartner, Leah Christiani, Derek Epp, Kevin Roach, and Kelsey Shoulb of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

This student-moderated panel features Professors Katharine Bartlett and Jane R. Wettach having an honest, frank discussion surrounding NC HB 2, the "Public Facilities Privacy & Security Act," and fielding questions from the audience regarding the passage of the bill and the success or failure of possible challenges to the law. NC HB 2 was passed last Wednesday and prohibits NC localities from passing anti-discrimination ordinances. Though North Carolina does have a statewide nondiscrimination law, it does not include specific protections for LGBTQ people.

Duke Law's Center on Law, Race and Politics hosted a conference on November 20-21, 2015, bringing together scholars and experts to discuss civil rights. In 2014, the nation marked the fiftieth anniversary of the March on Washington, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and Freedom Summer. In 2015, we recognized the fiftieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Moving into the 21st century, America finds itself at the beginning of a new era defined by its own set of civil rights struggles.

Recent events at Duke and around the country have raised the question of hate speech policies on college campuses. Can universities impose hate speech regulation? Do students really have the right to say whatever they want, even if it's offensive? Duke's Black Law Students Association sponsored a panel discussion with Professor Neil Siegel, Professor Stuart Benjamin, Professor Guy Charles, and Michael J. Schoenfeld, Vice President of Public Affairs and Government Relations at Duke University about the merits of hate crime policies from a constitutional and university perspective.

The Present and Future of Civil Rights Movements: Race and Reform in 21st Century America

Remarks: Christine Kim '16, Guy-Uriel Charles (Duke Law School)

The Past and Future of Civil Rights Movements: Race and Reform in 21st Century America

Plenary: Criminal Justice Reform and Mass Incarceration

Moderator: Mario Barnes (University California, Irvine, School of Law)

Panel: Daryl Atkinson (Southern Coalition for Social Justice), Devon W. Carbado (UCLA School of Law), Michael Pinard (University of Maryland School of Law) , Cheryl Harris (UCLA School of Law), Thena Robinson-Mock (Advancement Project)

The Present and Future of Civil Rights Movements: Race and Reform in 21st Century America

Plenary: Race, Culture and Media

Moderator: Mark Anthony Neal (Duke University, Department of African & African American Studies)
Panel: Devon W. Carbado (UCLA School of Law), Tanisha C. Ford (Haute Couture Intellectualism, University of Massachusetts Amherst), Russell Robinson (University of California, Berkeley School of Law), Goldie Taylor (Editor-at-Large, The Daily Beast)

The Present and Future of Civil Rights Movements: Race and Reform in 21st Century America

Plenary: Race, Political Participation, and the Roberts Court

Moderator: Kerry Haynie (Duke University, Department of Political Science)

Panel: Ari Berman (The Nation), Richard Delgado (University of Alabama School of Law), Luis Ricardo Fraga (University of Notre Dame, Institute for Latino Studies), Pamela Karlan (Stanford Law School), Taeku Lee (University of California Berkeley Department of Political Science), Neil Siegel (Duke Law School)

16:00 Concurrent Panel (1 of 5)

Moderator: Darrell A.H. Miller (Duke Law School)
Ralph Richard Banks (Stanford Law School)
Katharine T. Bartlett and Mitu Gulati (Duke Law School)
Michael Selmi (George Washington University Law School)
Sandra F. Sperino (University of Cincinnati College of Law)

Recorded on November 20, 2015

The Present and Future of Civil Rights Movements: Race and Reform in 21st Century America

Introduction: Trina Jones (Duke Law School) & Ana Apostoleris '16 (Duke Law School - Student)

Plenary: Reflections on the Present and Future of Civil Rights Movements

Moderator: Angela Onwuachi-Willig (University of Iowa College of Law)

The Present and Future of Civil Rights Movements: Race and Reform in 21st Century America

Plenary: Trends in Immigration Law and Policy

Welcome: Dean David F. Levi (Duke Law School)

Moderator: Cristina Rodriguez (Yale Law School)

Panel: Leisy Abrego (UCLA, Department of Chicana/o Studies), Jennifer Chacón (University of California, Irvine, School of Law), Alejandra Gomez (Living United for Change in Arizona – LUCHA), Marielena Hincapie (National Immigration Law Center), Robin Lenhardt (Fordham University School of Law), Hiroshi Motomura (UCLA School of Law)

The Present and Future of Civil Rights Movements: Race and Reform in 21st Century America

Plenary: Developments and Ongoing Challenges for LGTB Communities

Moderator: Holning Lau (University of North Carolina School of Law)

Panel: Bernadette Brown (Duke University, Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity), Chinyere Ezie (Southern Poverty Law Center), Holiday Simmons (Lambda Legal), Juan Session-Smalls & Gee Session-Smalls (Juan & Gee Enterprises)

2015 marks the 150th anniversary of the Thirteenth Amendment, commemorated here with a panel discussion on its history and contemporary relevance. Panelists include Professor Darrell Miller (Duke Law), Professor Laura Edwards (Duke History), and Professor George Rutherglen (Virginia Law).

Sponsored by the Center on Law, Race and Politics, the American Constitution Society, and the Program in Public Law.

The 2015 LENS Conference, Law in the Age of 'Forever War', focuses on the legal issues that accompany warfare in a time when technology, relationships between nations, and the abilities of non-state actors to affect the international stage, are all changing rapidly. Speakers address some of the difficult issues that have come to define modern law as it relates to warfare: targeting, surveillance, home-grown terrorism, intelligence gathering in the digital age, ensuring human rights and civil liberties.

Keynote Speech

The 2015 LENS Conference, Law in the Age of 'Forever War', focuses on the legal issues that accompany warfare in a time when technology, relationships between nations, and the abilities of non-state actors to affect the international stage, are all changing rapidly. Speakers address some of the difficult issues that have come to define modern law as it relates to warfare: targeting, surveillance, home-grown terrorism, intelligence gathering in the digital age, ensuring human rights and civil liberties.

A discussion of the status of marriage equality in North Carolina and across the United States, the panelists analyze the strategy choices that accompany nationwide civil rights litigation, the practical and theoretical issues surrounding equal protection and due process jurisprudence, and the impact these cases will have on civil rights, constitutional adjudication and federalism going forward.Sponsored by the the Program in Public Law and the American Constitution Society.

Sparked by the Michael Brown shooting in Missouri, there is a renewed public discussion on troubled interactions between minorities and police. This panel, comprised of experts from various disciplines, offers observations and suggestions. Panelists include: Dr. Mark Anthony Neal, Professor of Black Popular Culture in the Department of African and African-American Studies at Duke University; Dr.

A conversation with Professor Joseph Blocher and Wade Penny '60. As a young lawyer, Penny argued the civil rights case, Klopfer v. North Carolina, before the U.S. Supreme Court in 1966. The case became the U.S. Supreme Court's first significant interpretation of the Sixth Amendment-guaranteed right to a speedy trial. Penny speaks about his experience as a young lawyer arguing before the Supreme Court, the Civil Rights Movement, Durham and Duke in the 1960s.

Harvard Law Prof. Randall Kennedy discusses how African Americans were named and named themselves before and after emancipation up to the Civil Rights era. As part of a civil rights lecture series supported by the Robert R. Wilson Fund at Duke University he looks into the 1963 case of Hamilton v. Alabama, in which an African-American woman, Mary Hamilton, was fined and jailed after refusing to answer a prosecutor who addressed her by her first name on the witness stand rather than calling her "Mrs. Hamilton".

The Brown Discussion features Historian John Hope Franklin, Judge Louis Pollak, Professor Jack Greenberg, Professor Guy-Uriel Charles, and is moderated by Professors Neil Siegel and Charles Clotfelter. They discuss what it took to enact the decision, how it has impacted education in the United States, and what the future holds for the landmark decision.

Recorded on March 27, 2008.

Panel titled: Brown vs. Board of Education: Past, Present & Future.

Appearing: Speakers: John Hope Franklin, Louis Pollak, Jack Greenberg, and Guy-Uriel Charles.