"Talking about race and sex has never been easy," legal scholar Gail Heriot has said, "but on November 22, 1991, by signing the Civil Rights Act of 1991 into law, President George H.W. Bush made the problem dramatically worse."
Gail Heriot
Heroit, a long-time member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, will describe a chain of unintended consequences of that law in her talk, "Why We Walk on Eggshells," on Dec. 8 at 5:30 p.m., in Statler Hall room 198. The talk is free and open to the public. It will also be streamed; register to participate online.
"Gail Heriot has vigorously prosecuted the case that making laws less intrusive can often help us to become a society that is more civil," said Michael Fontaine, director of the Program on Freedom and Free Societies which is hosting the event. Fontaine, a professor of classics in the College of Arts and Sciences, will introduce Heriot and moderate the following Q&A.
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