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Legal Humanities Lecture: Franita Tolson

Event Type: Lecture
Sponsor: HRI with support by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Co-sponsored by WGGP and others
Virtual
Date: Oct 28, 2021 7:30 pm
Speaker: Franita Tolson (Law, Vice Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs, University of Southern California)
Cost: Free and open to the public
Registration: Registration
Contact: Humanities Research Institute
E-Mail: info-hri@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar: Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program (WGGP); Franita Tolson is Vice Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at University of Southern California Gould School of Law. Her scholarship and teaching focus on the areas of election law, constitutional law, legal history and employment discrimination. She has written on a wide range of topics including partisan gerrymandering, political parties, the Elections Clause, the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments.

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