Black Women's Law Association (BWLA) Featuring Charles Ogletree
The Black Women's Law Association (BWLA) is honored to co-sponsor a Reception/Book Signing at which Professor Charles Ogletree will address "Post Racial America: How are we doing?" Afterward, he will sign copies of his book, "The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and Race, Class and Crime in America."
June 14, 2010, 5:30 p.m. until 7:30 p.m.
"The Presumption of Guilt" is Professor Ogletree's analysis of race, class and crime--after the Crowley-Gates incident in Cambridge--and their impacts on the legal system.
Charles Ogletree '87, the Harvard Law School Jesse Climenko Professorof Law, and Founding and Executive Director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, is a prominent legal theorist who has made an international reputation by taking a hard look at complex issues of law and by working to secure the rights guaranteed by the Constitution for everyone equally under the law. The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice (http://www.charleshamiltonhouston.org), named in honor of the visionary lawyer who spearheaded the litigation in Brown v. Board of Education, opened in September 2005, and focuses on a variety of issues relating to race and justice, and will sponsor research, hold conferences, and provide policy analysis.
