Professor Linda S. Greene will be the guest of The John Marshall Law School as the 2011 Distinguished Scholar-In- Residence the week of April 4. Greene is the Evjue-Bascom Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her teaching and scholarship focus on Constitutional Law, Civil Procedure, Legislation, Civil Rights and Sports Law.
Her activities will focus on speaking with and presenting lectures for John Marshall staff and students, and she will be feted at a reception for the legal community.
On Monday, April 4, students are invited to a noon lunch with Greene in Room 1200. Her presentation will be “From Tokenism to Emancipatory Politics: Legal Scholars of Color and the Transformation of the Legal Academy.”
On Tuesday, April 5, the law school will host a formal evening reception for Greene who will meet with invited guests at the Standard Club.
On Wednesday, April 6, Greene will deliver the 12:15 p.m. lecture “Race and the Future of the
Roberts Court.” The program in Room 1200 is open to the public. A light lunch will be served at 11:45 a.m.
For her lunch with faculty at noon on Thursday, April 7, Greene will speak on “Beyond Shady Grove: The Roberts Court, Erie, and the Future of Civil Judicial Federalism.” The program will be in Room 1200.
Greene has been a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School since 1989. She served
as associate vice chancellor of the University of Wisconsin from 1999 to 2004, and led the strategic faculty hiring effort to improve diversity among the faculty. Greene has served as president of the Society of American Law Teachers, and as chair of the American Association of Law Schools Section on Minority Groups. Greene has been a civil rights attorney with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund in New York City; a faculty member at Temple University and the University of Oregon; counsel to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee from 1986 to 1989; and is the co-founder of the Black Women in Sport Foundation. For 12 years, Greene was a leader in the United States Olympic Committee (USOC) chairing the USOC Legislation Committee, serving as vice chair of the USOC Audit Committee and co-authoring USOC diversity policies. Registrations are being accepted for each of these programs with the Department of Event Management at events@jmls.edu.