Conference on Economic and Social Inequality

Friday, 3/24/2006 9:00 AM (EST)

Introduction and Overview - 8:30-8:45am.

Emma Coleman Jordan, Gerogetown University Law Center; Charles Ogletree, Jr., Harvard Law School

Panel One - 8:45-10am:  Inequality: Perspectives in Three Disciplines: Economics, Law, and Sociology.

Moderator: Emma Coleman Jordan
Panelists: Richard McAdams, University of Illinois; Emily Houh, University of Cincinnati; Robert Ashford, Syracuse University

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Panel Two - 10:15-12:00pm:  Property Ownership and Asset Equality.

Moderator: Steven Salop, Georgetown University Law Center
Panelists: Thomas M. Shapiro, Brandeis University; Robin Paul Malloy, Syracuse University; Daria Roithmayr, University of Illinois; Bernadette Atuahene, Chicago-Kent College of Law.

Keynote Address - 12:15 - 1:15pm:  "The Future of the Black Freedom Struggle: The Role of Stigma in the Production of Economic Inequality"

Glenn Loury, Professor of Economics, Brown University

Panel Three - 1:15 - 2:30: Educational Equality

Moderator: Charles Ogletree, Jr.  Harvard Law School
Panelists: Anita Hill, Brandeis University; Thomas Hertz, American University; Robin A. Lenhardt, Fordham University.

Panel Four - 2:30 - 4:00pm: Economic Inequality and the Developing World

Moderator: Angela Harris, University of California-Berkeley
Panelists: James Agresano, Albertson College of Idaho; Steven A. Ramirez, Washburn University; C armen G. Gonzalez, Seattle University; Ruth Gordon, Villanova University.

Panel Five - 4:15 - 5:30pm: Workplace Inequality

Moderator: Harry Holzer, Georgetown University
Panelists: Ian Ayres, Yale Law School; Sumi Cho, DePaul University; Devon Carbado, University of California, Los Angeles.