University of Utah : S.J. Quinney College of Law

Martin Luther King Event

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On April 4, The S.J. Quinney College of Law co-sponsored with the University of Utah Office of the President, Office of Diversity, and the Utah Minority Bar Association an event commemorating the 40th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s death.

7 hours of CLE credit for attending the entire event (pending).

Schedule

8:00	Check in
8:30	Welcome / Introduction of Julian Bond President Michael K. Young
9:00	Setting the Stage: Reflections on the Civil Rights Era Julian Bond NAACP National Chairman
10:00	Table Discussion
10:20	Break
10:30	Race and Education Dr. Octavio Villalpando, U of U Office of Diversity (moderator) Dr. Walter Allen, UCLA Dr. Gary Orfield, UCLA
11:30	Table Discussion (Lunch service begins)
11:50	Break
12:00	Housing Avery Friedman, civil rights attorney, CNN legal correspondent
1:00	Table Discussion
1:20	Break
1:30	Security and Civil Rights: Can We Have Both? Professor Amos Guiora, U of U (moderator) Professor Louis René Beres, Purdue University Col. Morris Davis, former Chief Prosecutor in GITMO
2:30	Table Discussion
2:50	Break
3:00	Today’s Challenges and Solutions Jonathan M. Holifield, President, Urban League of Greater Cleveland
4:00	The Local Perspective Ross Romero, Utah State Sen.
4:20	Closing Reflections Reverend France A. Davis, Pastor, Calvary Baptist Church, Salt Lake City

Biographies

Michael Young

Michael Young is the 14th president of the University of Utah.  Prior to his appointment at Utah, he was Dean and Lobingier Professor of Comparative Law and Jurisprudence at the George Washington University Law School (1998-2004).  Young is a graduate of Brigham Young University (B.A., 1973) and Harvard Law School (J.D., 1976), where he served as a note editor of the Harvard Law Review.

From 1978 to 1998, he was the Fuyo Professor of Japanese Law and Legal Institutions and Director of the Center for Japanese Legal Studies, the Center for Korean Legal Studies, and the Project on Religion, Human Rights and Religious Freedom at Columbia University. Prior to joining the Columbia University faculty, President Young served as a Law Clerk to the late Chief (then Associate) Justice William H. Rehnquist of the U.S. Supreme Court.

During the administration of President George Bush, President Young served as Ambassador for Trade and Environmental Affairs (1992-93), Deputy Under Secretary for Economic and Agricultural Affairs (1991-93) and Deputy Legal Adviser to the U.S. Department of State (1989-91).

He has published extensively on a broad range of topics, including the Japanese legal system, dispute resolution, mergers and acquisitions, labor relations, the legal profession, comparative law, industrial policy, international trade law, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), international environmental law and international human rights and freedom of religion.

Julian Bond

Julian Bond is the chair of the board of directors of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).  He is a Distinguished Adjunct Professor at American University in Washington, D.C., and a faculty member in the History Department at the University of Virginia.  He earned a B.A. in English from Morehouse College and holds numerous honorary degrees, including an honorary LL.D. from Bates College.  In 2002, he received the prestigious National Freedom Award.

The president emeritus of the Southern Poverty Law Center, Bond hosted America’s Black Forum from 1980 until 1997. He remains a commentator for the Forum, for radio's Byline, and for NBC’s The Today Show. He authored the nationally syndicated newspaper column Viewpoint and narrated the critically acclaimed PBS series Eyes on the Prize in 1987 and 1990.

A collection of Bond’s essays has been published under the title A Time To Speak, A Time To Act.  In addition, his writings have appeared in the Nation, Life, the New York Times, and other national publications.

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Louis René Beres

Louis René Beres, a professor of Political Science at Purdue University, lectures and publishes widely on matters of terrorism, strategy and international law. The author of several early books on nuclear war and nuclear terrorism, he is closely involved with Israeli security issues.  Beres' most recent articles have appeared in International Security (Harvard), and in the Policy Paper series of the Ariel Center for Policy Research (Israel). His opinion columns appear in newspapers including The New York Times, Washington Post, Washington Times, Chicago Tribune, Indianapolis Star, The Jerusalem Post and Haaretz (Israel) and The Jewish Press.

Beres earned a Ph.D. from Princeton University, an M.A. from Princeton University
and a B.A. from Queens College.  His books include America Outside the World:  The Collapse of U.S. Foreign Policy and Security or Armageddon:  Israel's Nuclear Strategy, an edited collection of original essays. 

Walter Allen

Walter Allen is the Allan Murray Cartter Professor of Higher Education at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.  Allen completed postdoctoral study in Psycho-Social Epidemiology at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Chicago, an M.A. in Sociology from the University of Chicago, and a B.A. in sociology from Beloit College. 

Allen’s research interests include comparative race, ethnicity and inequality; diversity in higher education; and family studies.  His teaching interests include current issues in higher education, sociology of education, theories of race and ethnicity; race and class in America; urban sociology; inequality in Los Angeles; social organization of black communities; social structure and personality; socialization and life course; and social science perspectives on health.
Allen’s recent works include co-editing the volume Higher Education in a Global Society: Achieving Diversity, Equity, and Excellence, and co-authoring the study Black Undergraduates from Bakke to Grutter: Freshmen Status, Trends and Prospects, 1971-2004.
 
Gary Orfield

Gary Orfield, a professor of Education, Law, Political Science and Urban Planning at UCLA, completed his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago, an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Chicago, and a B.A., summa cum laude, from the University of Minnesota.

Orfield’s research interests include the study of civil rights, education policy, urban policy, and minority opportunity. He was co-founder and director of the Harvard Civil Rights Project and is now co-director of the Civil Rights Project/Proyecto Derechos Civiles at UCLA. Orfield's central interest has been the development and implementation of social policy, with a central focus on the impact of policy on equal opportunity for success in
Orfield received the 2007 “Social Justice in Education” Award by the American Educational Research Association for "work that has had a profound impact on demonstrating the critical role of education research in supporting social justice." He is a member of the National Academy of Education.

His recent publications include Historic Reversals, Accelerating Resegregation, and the Need for New Integration Strategies, (with Chungmei Lee), Lessons In Integration: Realizing the Promise of Racial Diversity in America's Public Schools (with E. Frankenberg), and Dropouts in America: Confronting the Graduation Rate Crisis.

Avery Friedman

The Wall Street Journal calls Avery Friedman a “walking reference source” on civil rights law and he has been recognized in Time, The New York Times and USA Today as a nationally distinguished civil rights lawyer and law professor.

Since 2003 Friedman has served as CNN's Weekend Legal Correspondent with nearly 3,000,000 viewers coast to coast.  Friedman has lectured on federal civil rights law at nearly two dozen major law schools including Stanford, Duke, Berkeley, Michigan, Tulane and the University of Texas and has been invited to appear by both the U.S. Senate and House as an expert on civil and constitutional rights. Former Special Counsel to the Texas Commission on Human Rights for his anti-Klan prosecutions and presently Visiting Professor in Constitutional Law at Ursuline College, Mr. Friedman is recipient of the Legendary Champion of Civil Rights Award by the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the Freedom Award by the NAACP and the Dr. Martin Luther King Memorial Human Rights Award presented by the governor.

Friedman is the author of numerous articles, including “Federal Fair Housing Practice,” A.L.I. Practical Lawyer 15, 1974; “Damages in Housing Bias Litigation,” 21 New York Law Forum 554, 1976; “Warth v. Seldon: Foisting an Un-American Model?” 27 Land Use Law and Zoning Digest 6, 1975; “Attacking Discrimination Through the Thirteenth Amendment,” 21 Cleveland State Law Review 146, 1972; “A Clinical Approach to Legal Writing,” 44 New York State Bar Journal 42, 1972; “What Cleveland's Legal Community Can Do About Education,” 42 Cleveland Bar Journal 162, 1972. 

His practice areas include Fair Housing Law, Equal Employment Law, Zoning Law, Federal Civil Rights Law and Public Interest Law.

Col Morris Davis

Colonel Morris D. Davis is the former Department of Defense (DoD) Office of Military Commissions  (OMC) Chief Prosecutor.  In that role, he was responsible for directing the overall prosecution efforts of the United States in military commissions.  His duties included supervising all Military Commission Prosecutors and Assistant Prosecutors, as well as advising the DoD General Counsel on matters relating to military commission prosecution activities.

In October 2007, he resigned as lead prosecutor for terrorism trials at Guantanamo Bay.  He later explained that his decision to resign was prompted, in part, by the fact he was being pressured by politically motivated officials at the Pentagon to pursue high-profile convictions ahead of the 2008 elections.

Davis earned a Bachelor of science in Criminal Justice from Appalachian State University, and a J.D. from North Carolina Central University School of Law in Durham, NC.  His major awards and distinctions include the Air Force Meritorious Service Medal with four oak leaf clusters, the Air Force Commendation Medal with two oak leaf clusters, and the Air Force Achievement Medal with one oak leaf cluster Southwest Asia Service Medal

Johnathan M. Holifield

Johnathan M. Holifield is the president and CEO of the Urban League of Greater Cleveland. Prior to assuming his current duties, Holifield was president and CEO of the Buffalo Olmstead Parks Conservancy in New York. He also was formerly a player on the National Football League's Cincinnati Bengals.
Holifield was a civil litigation attorney in Cincinnati, and an assistant civil prosecutor with the Hamilton County, Ohio Prosecuting Attorney's Office. A leader in civic affairs, he co-founded Build Cincinnati, a bipartisan coalition of advocates who won voter passage of the most significant local government reform in more than 75 years. He also drafted and won passage of Ohio's first “hospitable workplace” municipal ordinance.

Holifield holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from West Virginia University, a master’s degree in Education and a law degree from the University of Cincinnati. In addition, he is a graduate and current executive board member of The University of Oklahoma Economic Development Institute, a professional economic development training program. 

Rev. France Davis

Since 1974, Rev. France Davis has been the pastor of the historic Calvary Missionary Baptist Church of Salt Lake City, Utah.  Davis has degrees in Afro-American Studies from Merritt College; Arts and Humanities from Laney College; Rhetoric from University of California at Berkeley; Religion and Philosophy from Westminster College; Master of Mass Communication from the University of Utah; and Master of Ministry from Northwest Nazarene College.

Davis came to Salt Lake City in 1972 as a teaching fellow and graduate student.  He was appointed instructor in Communication and Ethnic Studies courses, earning a distinguished teacher award, and continues to teach in the University of Utah’s Honors and Ethnic Studies Program as Adjunct Associate Professor.

Davis lectures widely on cultural and religious topics.  He also serves on community and national boards including the Salt Lake Housing Authority, Career Service Council, and the Salt Lake Convention and Visitors Bureau.  He has received numerous awards including an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters Degree from the University of Utah in 1993, Salt Lake Community College in 1997, Dixie State College in 2002, the T. K. McCarthey Silver Hope Award from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, 2006, an official citation from the Utah House of Representatives in recognition of outstanding service to his community, state and nation in 2006 and was appointed as a member to the Salt Lake Community College Board of Trustees by Governor Huntsman in 2007.  In 2006, Rev. Davis published his second book, France Davis:  An American Story Told.

Ross Romero

Ross I. Romero is a Utah State Senator from District 7 which includes the University of Utah.  Sen. Romero was elected to the Senate in 2006 after having served in the Utah House of Representatives from 2004-2006.  Romero is currently a Vice President for Zions Bank and was formerly a shareholder with the law firm Jones, Waldo, Holbrook & McDonough, P.C.
 
Romero is a graduate of the University of Utah, (B.S.) and the University of Michigan Law School.  Prior to serving in the Utah Senate, Romero was active in many community organizations including the Young Alumni Association for the University of Utah; the Salt Lake City Board of Adjustment; as the President of the Utah Minority Bar Association; and as a Salt Shaker, a Salt Lake Area Chamber of Commerce group.  Last year Romero was recognized by Utah Business Magazine as a forty under 40 business leader.
 
Romero is married to Cecilia M. Romero, an attorney with the law firm Holland & Hart, and a graduate from the S.J. Quinney College of Law.  Both are proud parents of their son, Marcus J. Romero.

Amos Guiora

Amos Guiora is a professor of law at the University of Utah S. J. Quinney College of Law. He graduated from Kenyon College in 1979 (Honors in History) and from Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 1985.

Guiora teaches Criminal Law, Global Perspectives on Counter-terrorism, Religion and Terrorism and National Security Law. In addition, Guiora incorporates scenario-based instruction to address national and international security issues.
Prior to joining the S. J. Quinney faculty, Guiora was Professor of Law and the Founding Director of the Institute for Global Security Law and Policy at Case Law School.  Before joining Case in 2004, Guiora served for 19 years in the Israel Defense Forces Judge Advocate General's Corps (Lt. Col. Ret.). He held a number of senior command positions, including Commander of the IDF School of Military Law, Judge Advocate for the Navy and Home Front Command, and the Legal Advisor to the Gaza Strip.

His publications include the casebook Global Perspectives on Counter-terrorism (Aspen), as well as the forthcoming titles Constitutional Limits on Coercive Interrogation (OUP, March 2008); Terrorism Primer (Aspen, Fall 2008); and, as general editor, Annual Review -- Top Ten Global Security Law Review Articles, Vol. I (Oxford University Press, 2008).

Octavio Villalpando

Octavio Villalpando is the Associate Vice President for Diversity and Associate Professor of Educational Leadership & Policy at the University of Utah.  He received his Ph.D. and master’s degree from UCLA in the field of higher education, where he also conducted research in the Higher Education Research Institute.  His scholarship draws from Critical Race Theory and Latina/o Critical Theory to analyze how inequality in U.S. higher education shapes the educational outcomes and experiences of historically underrepresented students and faculty.  His research was recently cited in the U.S. Supreme Court decision on affirmative action as evidence for maintaining affirmative action in higher education admissions, and has been published in national and international journals in the field of higher education.  He has received postdoctoral research fellowships from the Ford Foundation / National Academy of Sciences and from the California State University system; and has obtained over $1million in research and assessment grants from public and private sources, including the Spencer Foundation and the American Educational Research Association (AERA).

Villalpando currently serves on the editorial board of the Review of Higher Education, and is associate editor of Educational Administration Quarterly.

At the University of Utah, he supervises the Ethnic Studies Program, Gender Studies Program, the Center for Ethnic Student Affairs, the American Indian Resource Center, the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Resource Center and other related student support services.  The College of Education has recognized his scholarly contributions by awarding him the Outstanding Faculty Teaching Award in 2002 and the Outstanding Faculty Research Award in 2005.