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Who Should Purchase
Any attorney interested in learning about the life and legacy of the Honorable Constance Baker Motley.
"Civil Rights Queen" - A Conversation With Tomiko Brown-Nagin-EMS220608
Cost - FREE
Program Date - Wednesday, June 8, 2022
Product ID - EMS220608
CLE Credit
CT: 0.75 CLE Credit (General), 0.75 CLE Credit (Ethics)
About the Program
This year’s series will culminate on June 8 with a speaker event featuring Professor Tomiko Brown-Nagin. She will discuss her book Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality. 2021 marked the 100th birthday of Judge Constance Baker Motley and 2022 marks the release of Professor Brown-Nagin's major biography on Judge Motley. Tomiko Brown-Nagin is an award-winning legal historian, and an expert in constitutional law and education law and policy. She is also Dean for the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School, as well as Professor of History at Harvard University. In this discussion, she will share her research and experience in capturing Judge Motley's story as well as her insight as to Judge Motley's legacy in the present day.
Credits
Ethics and Professionalism:0.75, General:0.75
Description
This segment of the Constance Baker Motley Series on Racial Inequality is presented by the Connecticut Bar Association (CBA) and its Diversity and Inclusion Committee, and Young Lawyers Section, in collaboration and co-sponsorship with the Connecticut Bar Foundation (CBF) and James W. Cooper Fellows.
You Will Learn
How Judge Motley accessed power and influence amidst racial inequity and marginalization
Judge Motley's legacy and path shaped judicial and social change, and continues to do so
The process of researching and resulting stories of Judge Motley’s experience as an attorney and a judge, as well as her life outside of the Court
Who Should Purchase
Any attorney interested in learning about the life and legacy of the Honorable Constance Baker Motley.
Speaker
Professor Tomiko Brown-Nagin
Dean of Harvard Radcliffe Institute,
Cambridge, MA
Moderators
Aigné S. Goldsby Ronald Houde
Letizia Ambrose & Falls PC, Ouellette Deganis Gallagher & Grippe LLC,
New Haven, CT Cheshire, CT