Seminar
The Quest for Legal Protections: The oftentimes less-than-cozy relationship between American law and the Commitment to Civil Rights
- Date
- January 6, 2006
- Speaker
- Dr. Ric Sheffield, Provost, Kenyon College
- Description
American culture is the epitome of hyper-legalism. The ubiquity of law and legal activities over the more than 225 years of our constitutional legal system has resulted in a legal culture steeped in hopes, beliefs, and expectations that law can and should remedy social injustice. Nowhere has the “promise of law” been more perplexing than in the struggle for civil rights and the quest for racial equality. This seminar will examine the historical foundation of the cultural assumption that law has both the responsibility and capacity to remedy social injustice. The importance of the study of the socio-legal origins of the contemporary civil rights movement is not just to learn what has transpired but what fundamental principles of justice determine the course that the nation will take in the future in this arena as well as why American minorities continue to place their faith in law.
- Location
- 2080 Citygate Dr. Columbus, OH 43219 [view map]
