Lecture I: Wednesday, October 8, 2025
Michelle Adams
University of Michigan Law School
“The Containment: Detroit, the Supreme Court,
and the Battle for Racial Justice in the North”
4:30—6:00 p.m.
Building 1P, Center for the Performing Arts
Williamson Theater, Room 111
Reception to Follow
CLUE Credit Certified
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. 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-sponsors: CSI Pre-Law Club and CSI Student Government Association
For information, contact: Professor Michael Paris, Michael.Paris@csi.cuny.edu
