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Event
"Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights" featuring Kenji Yoshino
Endowed Leadership Lecture Series presents
Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights featuring Kenji Yoshino
Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law, New York University School of Law
April 10, 2012 at 7:00 p.m. (Registration at 6:30 p.m.)
Location: EBS Dining Room, The Bishop's School
Biography
Kenji Yoshino is the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at NYU School of Law. He was educated at Harvard (B.A. 1991), Oxford (M.Sc. 1993 as a Rhodes Scholar), and Yale Law School (J.D. 1996). He taught at Yale Law School from 1998 to 2008, where he served as Deputy Dean (2005-6) and became the inaugural Guido Calabresi Professor in 2006. His fields are constitutional law, anti-discrimination law, and law and literature.
Yoshino's first book, Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights was published by Random House in 2006. His second book, A Thousand Times More Fair: What Shakespeare's Plays Teach Us About Justice, was published by Ecco / HarperCollins in 2011. He is currently at work on a third book, under contract with Oxford University Press, about the shift from group-based civil rights to universal human rights in the U.S. Supreme Court's jurisprudence.
Yoshino has published in major academic journals,including The Columbia Law Review, The Harvard Law Review, The Stanford Law Review, and The Yale Law Journal. He has also written for more popular forums, including The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. He makes regular appearances on various radio and television programs, such as NPR's The Takeaway and PBS's Charlie Rose.
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LocationEBS Dining Room, The Bishop's School (View)
7607 La Jolla Blvd
La Jolla, CA 92037
United States
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