Peter SchuckPeter H. Schuck will speak on "Diversity in America" on Thursday, October 21, 2004 at 4:00 p.m. in Bannan Hall, Room 127

Peter H. Schuck is the Simeon E. Baldwin Professor of Law at Yale Law School.  His recent and highly acclaimed book,  Diversity in America:  Keeping Government at a Safe Distance, explains how Americans have understood diversity, how we came to embrace it, how the government regulates it now, and how we can do better. 

Analyzing some of the most controversial policy arenas where politics and diversity intersect—such as immigration, multiculturalism, language, affirmative action, and school choice—he reveals the conflicts, trade-offs, and ironies entailed by our commitment to the diversity ideal.  His lecture will include his ground-breaking recommendations to help us manage the challenge of diversity in the future.

Before joining the Yale faculty, Professor Schuck was in private law practice in New York City, a public interest lawyer in Washington, D.C., and Deputy Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare.