On Wednesday, the CSI Legal Studies Institute presented the first installment of its Fall Lecture Series, The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North.
Michelle Adams, B.A, Brown University, J.D., CUNY Law School, LLM, Harvard Law School, is the Henry M. Butzel Professor of Law at the University of Michigan and is the lecture speaker. Her research centers on race discrimination, school desegregation, affirmative action, and housing law. Adams is the winner of the 2024 L. Hart Wright Teaching Award. She has published in The Yale Law Journal, California Law Review, Texas Law Review, and other scholarly journals. Her work also has appeared in the popular media. The Containment (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2024) tells the story of the critical desegregation struggle that ended the Brown v. Board of Education era. Before joining the Michigan faculty, Adams was professor at Cardozo Law School and Seton Hall Law School. Prior to that, she was a staff attorney at the New York City Legal Aid Society’s Civil Appeals and Law Reform Unit.
Co-sponsored by the CSI Pre-Law Club and CSI Student Government Association, the lecture was captured by CSI-TV and is available below. Be sure to check out photos from the event as well.
