Mari Matsuda - "Public Education: Call it Public Trust"
Thusday - April 28, 2005
4:00 PM (followed by a reception/bbq)
Drinko Audiotorium
Moritz College of Law
This event is free and open to the public.
Please contact Trina Phillips at 614-688-4240 to inquire about disability arrangements.
The first tenured female Asian American law professor in the United States (UCLA, 1998), Mari J. Matsuda is, she says, an "activist scholar." Her intellectual influence extends beyond law reviews (she authored three entries on a Yale Law School librarian's list of the ten most-cited law review articles) to include articles in academic and popular journals such as Amerasia Journal and Ms. Magazine. One of the primary voices in critical race theory since its inception, Professor Matsuda is a nationally recognized expert on civil rights, feminist theory, affirmative action, and hate speech; her publications on reparations and affirmative action are frequently cited.
Professor Matsuda is firmly committed to the values inherent in a liberal arts education, and to broadening access to and applications of that education. She was recently quoted in the Northwest Asian Weekly as saying, "If you don't know how to read and think critically and participate effectively in the democratic conversation, you have no power in this world. Equality requires education. The civil rights movement has always understood this"(January 17, 2004).
A frequent keynote speaker, Professor Matsuda's national stature beyond as well as within the academy is reflected in two recent achievements: As a board member of the Chevron-Texaco Task Force on Equality and Fairness, she coauthored its final report in 2002, and she received the 2003 Society of American Law Teachers Human Rights Award at the American Association of Law Schools Conference.
For more information please email: info@kirwaninstitute.org.
Materials for Download
Event flyer (MS Word)
Flyer for Ethnic Studies reception following
Also please see
Prof. Matsuda's website at Georgetown
