Welcome & Opening Remarks and Showcase Panel I [NLC2024]

9:00 - 9:30 AM ET Welcome & Opening Remarks

Featuring:

- Hon. Andrew Oldham United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit

9:30 - 11:30 AM ET Showcase Panel I: The Age of Group Identity: What is it? How Did We Get Here? How Do We Move Beyond It?

The generation of political leaders that produced the landmark legislation of the Civil Rights Era no doubt saw themselves as working to make one’s race, ethnicity, religion, sex, etc. matter less to one’s future prospects. And in many ways, they clearly succeeded. They would almost certainly be surprised and disappointed to learn how much emphasis those factors are still getting. Why has this happened? Is the problem that our focus on issues of race, ethnicity, sex, religion, gender, etc. has gone too far? Or is the problem that we haven’t yet focused on them enough? To what extent has the law helped create the current state of affairs? How can the law help us move in a better direction?

Featuring:

- Mr. Jonathan Berry Managing Partner, Boyden Gray PLLC

- Prof. Tyler Austin Harper Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies, Bates College; Contributing
Author, The Atlantic

- Hon. Gail L. Heriot Professor of Law, University of San Diego School of Law; Member, United States
Commission on Civil Rights

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Prof. Andrew Koppelman John Paul Stevens Professor of Law, Pritzker School of Law, Northwestern
University; Professor of Political Science (Courtesy) & Philosophy Department Affiliated Faculty,
Northwestern University

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Ms. Heather Mac Donald Thomas W. Smith Fellow, Manhattan Institute; Contributing Editor, City
Journal

MODERATOR: Hon. Paul B. Matey United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit

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