Brown Bag Biography with Charles Lawrence

October 9, 12:00pm - 1:15pm
Mānoa Campus, Kuykendall 410

For almost 60 years Charles Lawrence taught and wrote about race and the law. One of a small founding posse of a tribe that came to be known as Critical Race Theorists, he used life stories in his scholarship and teaching, offering abolitionist counternarratives to the racist stories told by the law. Now he is writing a memoir, reflecting on a life journey of 80+ years. How are these stories different from those he has told before? How are they the same? Chuck will read short passages from the memoir and speak briefly about the challenges of learning anew how to tell a story, of choosing what stories to tell (from 82 years, not counting the ancestors), and deciding what form the book will take. Charles Lawrence III - Professor Emeritus, University of ºÃÉ«ÏÈÉúÍøվʻi at ²ÑÄå²Ô´Ç²¹, William S. Richardson School of Law Professor Lawrence joined the William S. Richardson School of Law in 2008 from Georgetown. He began his teaching career at the University of San Francisco in 1974, was a tenured professor at Stanford and Georgetown, and has visited several other schools, including Harvard, Berkeley, UCLA, and the University of Southern California. Professor Lawrence is best known for his prolific work in antidiscrimination law, equal protection, and critical race theory. His most recent book, We Won’t Go Back: Making the Case for Affirmative Action (Houghton Mifflin, 1997), was co-authored by Professor Mari Matsuda.


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