2/10/03--The Boston College Third World Law Journal will hold a symposium on Friday, March 14th, 2003 on slavery reparations, entitled "Healing the Wounds of Slavery: Can Present Legal Remedies Cure Past Wrongs?" The symposium will be held in Stuart House room 411.

The goal of the symposium, organizer and third-year law student Wasana Punyasena said, "is to address in moral, historical and legal terms, whether current legal efforts to obligate the granting of reparations from private corporations can remedy the contemporary realities of slavery's effects on the African American community."

Harvard Professor Charles Ogletree Jr. and Boston University Law Professor Keith Hylton will be providing keynotes for the event. Professor Alfred Brophy (University of Alabama Law School), Professor David Lyons (Boston University School of Law), Professor Calvin Massey (University of California Hastings College of Law), and Dean Alfreda Robinson (George Washington University Law School), are the respondents. Professor David Hall (Northeastern University Law School) will serve as moderator.

First published in 1980, the Boston College Third World Law Journal is a unique legal periodical that fills the need for a progressive, alternative legal perspective on issues both within the United States and in the developing world. The Journal's scope includes issues affecting underrepresented populations, human and civil rights, immigration, women's and children's issues, and issues of disproportionate economic impact.

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Reparations Symposium Schedule
Conference: Room 411, Stuart Hall

9:00
Welcome by Dean John Garvey

9:10
Professor David Hall's (Northeastern School of Law) introduction of speakers

9:20
Keynote Speakers: Professor Charles Ogletree (Harvard Law School) & Professor Keith Hylton (Boston University School of Law). (40 minutes each)

10:45
Break

11:00
Keynotes continue & questions

12:30
Lunch at Barat house (For invited guests only. Please RSVP with Wasana Punyasena at punyasen@bc.edu)

1:30
4 Respondents (20 minutes each)
Professor Alfred Brophy (University of Alabama School of Law)
Professor David Lyons (Boston University School of Law)
Professor Calvin Massey (University of California at Hastings School of Law)
Dean Alfreda Robinson (George Washington University School of Law)

2:45
Break

3:00
Responses continued- questions

4:00/4:30
End