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8:30 - 8:45 a.m. Introduction and Overview
Emma Coleman Jordan, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center
Charles Ogletree, Jr., Jesse Climenko Professor of Law and Director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, Harvard Law School
8:45 - 10:00 a.m. Panel One: Inequality: Perspectives in Three Disciplines: Economics, Law, and Sociology
Emma Coleman Jordan, Professor, Georgetown University Law Center (moderator)
Richard McAdams, Guy Jones Professor of Law, University of Illinois and Visiting Professor of Law, University of Chicago "The Economic Costs of Inequality"
Emily Houh, Professor of Law, University of Cincinnati
"Contractual Common Law Good Faith as a Source of Anti-Discrimination Law"
Robert Ashford, Professor of Law, Syracuse University
"A Socio-Economic Approach to Social and Economic Inequality, Markets, Race and Democracy"
10:15 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Panel Two: Property Ownership and Asset Equality
Steven Salop, Professor of Economics and Law, Georgetown University Law Center (moderator)
Thomas M. Shapiro, Pokross Professor of Law and Social Policy, Brandeis University
"Changing Context of Racial Inequality: The Dynamics of New Markets, New Institutions, and New Challenges"
Robin Paul Malloy, Senior Associate Dean, E.I. White Chair and Distinguished Professor of Law, Professor of Economics, and Director of the Program in Law and Market Economy, Syracuse University
"Experience, Objectivity, and Race: A Semiotic Approach to Law in a Market Context"
Daria Roithmayr, Professor of Law, University of Illinois and Visiting Professor of Law, University of Minnesota
“Locked in Apartheid”
Bernadette Atuahene, Assistant Professor of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law
"When the Neo-Liberal Commitment to Property's Sanctity Gives Sanctuary to Property Arrangements Defined by Past Theft"
1:15 - 2:30 p.m. Panel Three: Educational Equality
Charles Ogletree, Jr., Jesse Climenko Professor of Law and Director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, Harvard Law School (moderator)
Anita Hill, Professor of Social Policy, Law, and Women's Studies, Brandeis University
"The Relationship between Perspective Social Outcomes and Educational Achievement"
Thomas Hertz, Assistant Professor of Economics, American University
"Regressing to a Different Mean: Trends in the Black/White Mobility Gap"
Robin A. Lenhardt, Associate Professor of Law, Fordham University
"An Exploration of Racial Stigma and Its Consequences in the Education Context"
2:30 - 4:00 p.m. Panel Four: Economic Inequality and the Developing World
Angela Harris, Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley (moderator)
James Angresano, Professor of Political Economy, Albertson College of Idaho and Visiting Professor of International Economy, Universita' Degli Studi Di Trento, Italia
"Orthodox Economic Development Theories: The Basis for Recipes That Perpetuate Injustice"
Steven A. Ramirez, Professor of Law, Washburn University
"Taking Economic Human Rights Seriously"
Carmen G. Gonzalez, Associate Professor of Law, Seattle University
"An Environmental Justice Critique of the Theory of Comparative Advantage"
Ruth Gordon, Professor of Law, Villanova University
"Viewing the WTO from the Margins"
4:15 - 5:30 p.m. Panel Five: Workplace Inequality
Harry Holzer, Professor of Public Policy, Georgetown University (moderator)
Ian Ayres, William K. Townsend Professor of Law, Yale Law School
"Competition and Equality: A Competitive Standard for Assessing When Disparate Impacts are Unjustified"
Sumi Cho, Professor of Law, DePaul University
"Embedded Whiteness and Affirmative Action"
Devon Carbado, Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles
"Race and the Contemporary Workplace"
5:30 - 6:00 p.m. Closing Discussion
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