Dean Christopher Edley, Jr. from Boalt Hall will be speaking at Santa Clara University School of Law on Thursday, October 4th at 4:00 pm in the Weigand Room in the Arts & Sciences Building on the Santa Clara University campus.
Dean Christopher Edley, Jr. joined Boalt Hall as Dean and Professor of Law in 2004, after 23 years as a professor at Harvard Law School. He earned a law degree and a master’s degree in public policy from Harvard. His academic work is primarily in the areas of civil rights and administrative law. Dean Edley was co-founder of the Harvard Civil Rights Project, a renowned multidisciplinary research and policy think tank focused on issues of racial justice.
Dean Edley’s talk is titled Circumventing Civil Rights Exhaustion Through Regulatory Social Justice: The Case of Achievement Disparities in K-12 Education. Some have argued that this decade is, or should be, a "post civil-rights" era in which claims for racial and ethnic justice must be quietly embedded in broader claims for social justice or distributive equity. Even if this notion is incorrect – descriptively or strategically – we should augment the traditional antidiscrimination approach with comprehensive no-fault regulatory designs. An illustration of this idea is the federal No Child Left Behind [NCLB] statute, the bipartisan 2001 amendments to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Though replete with warts, NCLB’s effort to force remediation of racial disparities without a predicate of fault reflects this emerging model for regulatory social justice.
Public Interest and Social Justice Coalition Wine and Cheese Reception immediately following the lecture.
This activity has been approved for Minimum Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) credit by the State Bar of California in the amount of one hour. Santa Clara University School of Law certifies that this activity conforms to the standards for approved education activities prescribed by the rules and regulations of the State Bar of California governing minimum continuing legal education.
