brown v. board at 60: looking back - looking forward

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Brown v. Board at 60: Looking Back - Looking ForwardCenter for Law and Government and Washburn Law Journal Symposium

The Supreme Court’s decision

in Brown marked a milestone

in the nation’s long journey

toward racial equality,

a journey that continues today.

Washburn Law’s Center for Law and Government and the Washburn Law Journal presented Brown v. Board at 60: Looking Back - Looking Forward to explore in a critical manner what the Brown v. Board of Education decision has meant and what it will continue to mean looking forward. The event was held on Feb. 27, 2014, at Bradbury Thompson Alumni Center.

Distinguished experts participated in three distinct plenary sessions addressing the topics of “The Life of Brown,” “Race and Education Today,” and “Contemporary Race Issues: Confronting Inequality in the 21st Century.”

The third issue of volume 53 (summer 2014) of the Washburn Law Journal was dedicated to the topic of this symposium, and articles written by the participants are featured. Related articles can be found at washburnlaw.edu/wlj.

[1] Symposium speakers included (front row) Cheryl Brown Henderson, Shirley A. Hill, Abel A. Bartley, and William Yeomans, and (back row) Juan F. Perea, Ted Shaw, Preston Green III, Cedric Merlin Powell, Chris Hansen, Joseph Zima, ’72, and Jack Alexander. [2] Following the symposium, attendees and their guests attended a reception at the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site in Topeka.

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The Future of Housing Business and Transactional Law Center and Washburn Law Journal Symposium

Law School Events

Washburn Law’s Business and Transactional Law Center partnered with the Washburn Law Journal to host a symposium entitled The Future of Housing: Equity, Stability, and Sustainability on Feb. 26, 2015.

The symposium hosted 20 experts from across the country who came to Washburn Law to discuss and debate their scholarly works on current legal housing issues. Presentations were grouped into three panels: (1) fair housing problems and equitable solutions, (2) market re-stabilization after the 2008 foreclosure crisis, and (3) real estate development and planning for the future.

Articles on which many of the presentations were based will be published in a forthcoming volume of the Washburn Law Journal, and will appear online at washburnlaw.edu/wlj.

Symposium speakers [1] Mark Roark [2] Kali Murray [3] Kathleen Engel and [4] James J. Kelly, Jr.

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Equity,

Stability, and

Sustainability

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