The University of Oklahoma College of Law ("OU Law") invites the Texas Yale Community to attend Yale Law School Professor Carol Rose¹s afternoon lecture on "Raisin, Race, and the Real Estate Revolution of the Early 20th Century", an elegant discourse on restrictive covenants and other race-based discrimination in housing, arising out of Lorraine Hansberry's play, "A Raisin in the Sun". Professor Rose will speak at the University of Oklahoma College of Law (in Norman, Oklahoma), on Friday, October 20, 2017 at 3:00 pm. OU Law Professor Taiawagi Helton and Yale Law School alumnus (YLS LL.M. 2001), one of the country's leading scholars in Indian Law and Native American Natural Resources Law, will be introducing Professor Rose.
Carol M. Rose is the Gordon Bradford Tweedy Professor Emeritus of Law and Organization and Professorial Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. She joined the Law School faculty in 1989. Professor Rose teaches property, land use, environmental law, natural resources law, and intellectual property law. Her publications include "Saving the Neighborhood: Racially Restrictive Covenants, Law, and Social Norms" (2013), with Richard R.W. Brooks; "Perspectives on Property Law" (3rd edition), with Robert Ellickson and Bruce Ackerman (2000); and "Property and Persuasion: Essays on the History, Theory and Rhetoric of Ownership" (1994). She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Professor Rose received her B.A. from Antioch in 1962, her M.A. from the University of Chicago in 1963, her Ph.D. in History from Cornell in 1969, and her J.D. from the University of Chicago in 1977.
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The next day, October 21, 2017, Professor Rose will be delivering the opening remarks at the Global Land & Resources Colloquium hosted by the University of Oklahoma College of Law and its "Oil & Gas, Natural Resources, and Energy Center" (ONE C) The Yale alumni are welcome to attend the Colloquium, which will also be held at the College of Law. RSVP for the colloquium will follow later.
For additional information or for accommodations, please contact lawevents@ou.edu or (405) 325-9175.