Risa Goluboff, dean of the University of Virginia School of Law, Steve Luxenberg, associate editor at The Washington Post and author of Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation, and Theodore Shaw, professor of law and director of the UNC Center for Civil Rights at UNC School of Law, discuss the case of Plessy v. Ferguson 124 years since it was decided in an online program. Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderates.
Participants
- Risa Goluboff is the 12th, and the first female, dean of the University of Virginia School of Law. She also holds the positions of Arnold H. Leon Professor of Law and professor of history at UVA. She is the author of Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960s and The Lost Promise of Civil Rights. Goluboff has been quoted or cited by The New York Times, Time, The Atlantic and more, and her commentaries frequently appear in Slate. She has appeared on PBS documentaries and the popular radio podcast “BackStory.” She is the co-host of the UVA Law School podcast Common Law. Goluboff is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a member of the American Law Institute and a distinguished lecturer for the Organization of American Historians.
- Steve Luxenberg is an associated editor at The Washington Post. He is the author of Separate: The Story of Plessy v. Ferguson, and America’s Journey from Slavery to Segregation. Prior to coming to The Post, Luxenberg was a journalist with The Baltimore Sun.
- Theodore Shaw is the Julius L. Chambers Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Civil Rights at the University of North Carolina School of Law. Shaw has published many book chapters, articles and essays on civil rights, including the introduction to The Ferguson Report: United States Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division. Shaw previously practiced as a Trial Attorney in the Honors Program of the U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division in Washington, D.C. Shaw later worked for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund for over 26 years. There he litigated cases related education, housing, voting rights and capital punishment. He would eventually go on to become its fifth Director-Counsel.
- Jeffrey Rosen is the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization devoted to educating the public about the U.S. Constitution. Rosen is also professor of law at The George Washington University Law School and a contributing editor of The Atlantic.
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