Social Justice Diversity Lectures

The Center for Social Justice and Public Service offers at least two major lectures each year featuring Critical Race theorists. Critical Race Theory is a body of scholarship that has grown since the mid-1970s as a response to the rollback of gains made by the Civil Rights Movement. Critical race scholars, who see "racism as an ingrained feature of our landscape," respond by analyzing "the myths, presuppositions, and received wisdoms that make up the common culture about race." See Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge (Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic eds., 2d ed. 2000). Bringing the perspective of Critical Race Scholars to campus will benefit both law school and undergraduate students, faculty, staff, and alumni by encouraging an exchange of ideas.

Spring 2012 Social Justice Diversity Lecture

Margaret Chon, Seattle University School of Law

Intellectual Property: What Do Diversity and Social Justice Have to Do with It?

March 22, 2012

Location: Nobili Hall
Time 4:00 p.m., followed by Wine and Cheese Reception

Margaret Chon is the Donald & Lynda Horowitz Professor for the Pursuit of Justice at Seattle University School of Law. In 2011–12, she will be a Global Emile Noël Research Fellow at the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law and Justice at New York University Law School, where she will explore dimensions of knowledge governance through international intellectual property law. Her current scholarship focuses on the relation of knowledge goods to the production of other global public goods necessary for human development and flourishing. A graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, she is also an alumna of the University of Michigan School of Public Health and Cornell University College of Arts and Science.

Past Social Justice Diversity Lectures