Public Service Events
Public service is a fundamental value at UW Law. Please join us at one of our many programs that encourage a hard look at the major public policy concerns of our time including employment and migration, educational disparity, and health and disabilities.
Social Justice Tuesdays
Throughout the school year, the Center for Public Service Law teams up with a different
student organization as host of this innovative programming series.
Programming includes a wide range of events such as talks by nationally
recognized practitioners, films with related discussions, discussions
facilitated by professors (including non-law professors), debates between
professors and/or practitioners and much more.
Gates Public Service Law Speaker Series
The Gates Public Service Law Program features talks by individuals engaged in
public service. The purpose of this series is to introduce the law school
community and others outside the law school to information about the many ways
attorneys can serve the public good. Speakers come from a range of different
backgrounds and areas of expertise and engage our community in a conversation
about the meaning of public service.
Other Center for Public Service Law programs
In addition to Social Justice Tuesdays and Gates Public Service Law Speaker
Series, the Center for Public Service Law hosts presentations on a variety of
topics aimed at promoting public service in the legal profession as well as
educating and supporting law students interested in pursuing public service law
careers.
Upcoming Events
Forces of Change Conference
April 27 & 28, 2012
By the end of 4th grade, poor students of color are two years behind their wealthier, predominantly white peers in reading and math. By 8th grade, they have slipped three years behind, and by 12th grade, four years behind. Educators, attorneys, researchers, policymakers, organizers, and community
members will convene at Forces of Change to address the crisis
in public education.
Keynote:
and Dean of the University of California, Berkeley Law School since 2004, as
well as Senior Policy Adviser to the University President. He co-founded two
multidisciplinary think tanks: the Civil Rights Project at Harvard – where he
taught law for 23 years – and Berkeley's Chief Justice Warren Institute on Race,
Ethnicity and Diversity. Mr. Edley held White House policy positions under
Presidents Carter, Clinton, Obama, and was on the U.S. Commission on Civil
Rights. He currently co-chairs the Department of Education’s Equity and
Excellence Commission, which examines disparities in meaningful educational
opportunities that give rise to the achievement gap, focusing on systems of
finance, and recommends ways in which federal policies can address such
disparities.
- Panel 1: Education Finance: Adequacy & Equity. There is a distinction between
education finance litigation from an adequacy perspective versus that from an
equity perspective. Panel members will assess current education funding
litigation and legislation from both angles and identify ways to collaborate in
moving reform.
- Panel 2: Workforce and Employment: Issues around Teacher Evaluation. Panelists
will discuss how current practices for teacher evaluation methods and employment
policy affect the achievement gap.
- Panel 3: Racial Exclusion: Disproportionality in Discipline. Recently, the U.S.
Departments of Justice and Education launched the Supportive School Discipline
Initiative to address the “school-to-prison pipeline” whereby disciplinary
policies push students out of school and into the juvenile and criminal justice
systems.
- Panel 4: School Choice and Charters: Effects on Education Equity. From New
Orleans to New York City, school choice and charters have been the subjects of
high hopes, serious critiques, and on-going litigation.
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