[We have the following announcement. DRE]
A Symposium to Commemorate the Bicentennial of the Federal District Court in Chicago. Friday, October 11, 2019,Chicago-Kent College of Law,565 West Adams Street, Chicago.Marovitz Courtroom. This event is free and open to the public. Please register here.
9:00 – 9:10 am
Welcome and Opening Remarks
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| Kenesaw Mountain Landis (LC) |
Dean Anita Krug (Chicago-Kent College of Law)
9:10 – 10:15 am Panel I—Radicalism on Trial
Christopher Schmidt (Chicago-Kent College of Law): “The Case of Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis”
Dean Strang (StrangBradley LLC): “The 1918 Bombing of the Federal Courthouse in Chicago”
Richard Kling (Chicago-Kent College of Law): “The Chicago Seven Trial”
Chair: Sheldon Nahmod (Chicago-Kent College of Law)
10:30 – 11:45 Panel II—Housing, Schools, and Race
Leonard Rubinowitz (Northwestern School of Law): “The Role of the Federal Courts in Desegregating Public Housing”
Beryl Satter (Rutgers University, History Department) and Jack
Macnamara (Loyola University Chicago, Center for Urban Research and
Learning): “Courts, Racism, and the Creation of American Ghettos”
Benjamin Superfine (University of Illinois at Chicago, Department
of Educational Policy Studies): “School Finance Reform Litigation”
Chair: Christopher Schmidt (Chicago-Kent College of Law)
12:00 – 1:00 pm Lunch
[Morris Hall, 10th Floor]
Keynote Address by Flint Taylor (People’s Law Office and author of Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago)
1:30 – 2:00 “The Federal Courts, Then and Now,” an Address by Clara Altman (Federal Judicial Center)
2:00 – 3:00 Panel III: Policing
Andrew Baer (University of Alabama, Birmingham, History Department): “The Trials of Jon Burge”
Stephen Rushin (Loyola University Chicago, School of Law) “Police Accountability Litigation”
Chair: Joanna Grisinger (Northwestern University, Legal Studies)
3:00 – 3:15 Remarks by Chief Judge Rebecca R. Pallmeyer, United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
