The Stuff That Keeps Me Up at Night: The Scary State of Civil Rights in North Carolina (Interdisciplinary Lunch)

Date/Time
Date(s) - 10/31/2014
12:00 pm - 1:15 pm

Location
Marion A. Cowell, Jr. Boardroom (Room 5003), UNC School of Law

On Friday, October 31, 2014, the UNC Center for Media Law and Policy will host an interdisciplinary lunch open to faculty and graduate students from across the UNC system. The topic will be The Stuff That Keeps Me Up at Night: The Scary State of Civil Rights in North Carolina, led by Mark Dorosin, adjunct professor of law at the UNC School of Law and managing attorney of the UNC Center for Civil Rights.

The North Carolina General Assembly has kept civil rights advocates in the state up at night for well over the past year. From rules designed to curb Moral Monday protests to new voter ID laws, both observers and the courts have had their hands full keeping up with the extraordinary pace of legislation designed to significantly alter long-held, well-established civil rights law and principles in North Carolina. In addition, this year’s state budget includes the establishment of a three-judge panel to rule on any constitutional challenge to state law. North Carolina is now the only state with such a requirement. The three judges will be appointed directly the Chief Justice of the state Supreme Court. Join us to hear Mark Dorosin address these and other civil rights concerns in the state.

In his role as managing attorney for the Center for Civil Rights, Dorosin oversees and coordinates the Center’s litigation and advocacy agenda in its core program areas, Educational Advancement and Fair Opportunities andCommunity Inclusion. The Center’s work in these areas focuses on the most prominent impacts of racial exclusion, including inadequate or substandard housing; lack of basic infrastructure and beneficial economic development; targeting of environmental hazards or socially disfavored land uses; restrictions on civic engagement and political participation; and discriminatory school district boundaries, and school siting, attendance zones and student assignment decisions. Dorosin joined the UNC Center for Civil Rights in 2008, and became Managing Attorney in 2009. He teaches Political and Civil Rights at the law school and is the faculty advisor to the Julius Chambers Civil Rights Moot Court team. In 2010, Dorosin was chosen as the Pro Bono Faculty Member of the Year.  He also serves on the Orange County Board of Commissioners.

October’s lunch discussion will be held from noon to 1:15 p.m. on Friday, October 31 in the Marion A. Cowell, Jr. Boardroom (Room 5003) at the School of Law on the UNC-CH campus. We will provide box lunches and drinks. RSVP using the form below by Tuesday, October 28.

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