Theodore M. Shaw

2014 Davis Lecture

A New Paradigm: Race and Poverty in the Twenty-First Century

Professor Theodore M. Shaw, the former director-councelor and president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, is currently director of the Center for Civil Rights at the law school of University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Professor Shaw is also the inaugural Julius Chambers Distinguished Professor of Law and has previously served as a professor of professional practice in law at Columbia University Law School. He began his career as a trial attorney in the US Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division.

This event is co-sponsored by the Davis Center, the Oakley Center, and the Office of Strategic planning and Institutional Diversity.