Abigail Thernstrom: Public Lectures
Television
and Radio Since January 2003 | Selected
media prior to 2003 | Public Lectures
2001 and earlier
- Comments in response to papers prepared
for "Will
No Child Truly Be Left Behind? The Challenges
of Making This Law Work," a conference
sponsored by the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation,
February 13, 2001, Capital Hilton, Washington,
D.C..
- Panelist, "Showcase Panel" on "Judicial
Decisionmaking: The Case of Judicial Oversight
of the Political Process," 15 th Annual
National Lawyers
Convention, The Federalist Society, November
16, 2001, Mayflower Hotel, Washington, D.C..
- Participant, 11 th annual "Great Debate," College
of Communications,
Boston University, April 4, 2001. Topic: Should
Race be a Plus Factor in University Admissions?"
- Keynote address, Annie E. Casey Foundation
4 th Annual Leadership
Development Workshop, "The
Changing Face of America," October 20,
2000, Baltimore, MD
- Luncheon address (keynote talk), "Affirmative
Action in Higher Education: The Wrong Solution
to a Real Problem," conference on higher
education sponsored
by the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy
of the John Locke Foundation, October 14, 2000,
Sheraton Imperial Hotel, Research Triangle
Park, Raleigh, N.C., October 14, 2000.
- Speaker and moderator, panel on the racial
gap in
academic achievement, annual conference of
the Education Leaders Group, Phoenix, AZ, September
23, 2000.
- Speaker, Vail Valley Institute, Vail Co.,
ninth annual Seminar & Forum. "Affirmative
Action: Is There a Better Way?" June 29-July
2, 2000.
- Panelist, "Race Relations in America," Barnard
College Alumnae
Reunion, June 3, 2000.
- Participant, panel on affirmative action
sponsored by The Fred Friendly Seminars and
Oxford University Press, New York Pubic Library,
January 13, 2000.
- Debate on affirmative action, Michigan State
University,
January 27, 2000.
- Dinner talk, conference entitled "A Tribute
to Jaime Escalante," The Heritage Foundation,
November 18,
1999.
- Panelist, "Showcase Panel: Civil Rights
at Century's End," The 1999 National Lawyers
Convention, The
Federalist Society, Mayflower Hotel, Washington,
D.C., November 12, 1999.
- Lecture, "Racial Preferences in Higher
Education," Grove City College, November
1, 1999.
- Debate on affirmative action sponsored by
Yale Political Union, Yale University, October
11, 1999.
- Debate on affirmative action with historian
Alan
Lichtman, Public Policy Forum, World Affairs
Television
Productions, Montreal, Canada, October 2, 1999.
- Dinner speaker, "The State Board of Education:
Issues, Dynamics, Politics," annual dinner
of the Barnard
Club, Boston, September 28, 1999.
- Testimony, H.R. 1173, the "States' Choice
of Voting Systems Act," U.S. House of
Representatives, Subcommittee on the Constitution,
September 23, 1999, Rayburn House Office Building,
Rm 2226.
- Panelist, "Affirmative Action 2020: Present
Perceptions, Future Trends," roundtable,
American Political
Science Association, annual convention, Atlanta,
September 2, 1999.
- Participant, session on America in Black
and White, annual meeting of the American Sociological
Association,
August, 1999.
- Speaker, "The State of Affirmative Action," annual
meeting of the
National Conference of State Legislatures,
Indianapolis, July 27, 1999.
- Testimony, Briefing on "The Use of Standardized
Testing and Equal Educational Opportunity," U.S.
Commission on
Civil Rights, Washington. D.C., June 18, 1999.
- Panelist, Panel Discussion, "Affirmative
Action: Round Two," The College Board,
Sixth Annual Legislative Conference, Hyatt
Regency, Washington, D.C., June 15, 1999.
- Panelist, Briefing on "Affirmative Action
in Higher Education," U.S. Commission
on Civil Rights, Washington. D.C., May 14,
1999.
- Evening talk on racial preferences in higher
education,
The Harvard Club of New York, May 6, 1999.
- Talk, Federalist Society, Hofstra Law School,
April
28, 1999.
- Luncheon talk on some race-related topic,
The Wisconsin Forum and the Federalist Society,
lawyers chapter, Milwaukee, WI, April 20, 1999.
- Talk, Federalist Society, lawyers chapter,
Hartford,
Conn., April 15, 1999.
- Talk, Tufts University, racial preferences
in higher
education, April 14, 1999.
- Panelist, forum on "Affirmative Action:
Is Diversity a Compelling State Interest," sponsored
by the American
Bar Association/Law Student Division's inaugural
National Diversity Day Initiative, Boston College
Law School, April 14, 1999.
- Talk, "Lifetime Learning" program,
Jewish Community
Center, Newton, MA, April 13, 1999.
- Talk, Federalist Society, Cornell University
Law School,
April 12, 1999.
- Participant, roundtable discussion, "Race
in 21st Century America," Michigan State
University, April
7, 1999.
- Lecture, "America in Black and White," Institute
for United States
Studies, University of London, March 24, 1999
- Talk on America in Black and White, program
with three authors
entitled "Race in Black
and White: Different Perspectives from Recent
Research," sponsored by "Dialogues
on Diversity," University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, Michigan, March 16, 1999.
- Debate against Michael McPherson, "Resolved:
Government Should Forbid All Colleges and Universities
from Taking Race into Account in Admissions," Williams
College, 8:00
p.m., March 3, 1999.
- Participant, debate on "The Future of
Affirmative Action," Suffolk Law School,
February 18,
1999.
- Talk, Quinnipiac School of Law, Federalist
Society,
January 27, 1999.
- Talk, The Harvard Club, Ft. Lauderdale,
Florida, dinner meeting January 19, 1999.
- Lecture, "America in Black and White," Sarasota
Institute of
Lifetime Learning, Sarasota, Florida, January
19, 1999.
- Talk, panel on "Quotas Schmotas: Defend
It, Mend it, or End It," at Awakening
'99, The Cloister, Sea Island, Georgia, January
9, 1999.
- Talk to the ad hoc committee directing a
study entitled "Building One Nation: Race,
Public Policy, and Affirmative Action, meeting
of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs and
member agencies, December 11, 1998.
- Participant, debate, "Left versus Right:
Affirmative Action in Higher Education," co-sponsored
by the National
Communication Association and the Center for
Democratic Values. Trianon Ballroom, New York
Hilton, November 22, 1998.
- Panel discussion on affirmative action,
Mt Holyoke College, November 19, 1998.
- Participant, panel discussion on "The
Role of Race and Religion in American Society," 85th
annual ADL National
Commission Meeting, Sheraton Hotel, Boston,
MA, November 12, 1998.
- Lecture, "Race in Modern America," Haverford
College, Haverford,
PA, evening, November 4, 1998.
- Lecture, "Truth and Consequences in Washington,
D.C.," and, in addition, guest at a history
department class,
Nassau Community College, Garden City, N.Y.,
November 4, 1998
- Participant, panel on race and ethnicity
at the plenary session, and afternoon breakout
discussion of race, The Hoover Institution, "Fall Retreat," Stanford,
CA, October 26,
1998.
- Lecture and luncheon discussion the next
day, Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH, October
18-19, 1998.
- Lecture, "America in Black and White," Ashland
University, Ashland,
OH, September 18, 1998.
- Address, Headway Magazine "National Leadership
Conference," Hyatt Regency, Washington
D.C., September 12, 1998
- Participant, panel on America in Black and
White:
One Nation, Indivisible, annual meeting of
the American Political Science Association,
Boston,
MA, September 5, 1998.
- Chair, "Roundtable on the Politics of
Educational Reform," annual meeting of
the American Political Science Association,
Boston, MA, September 4, 1998.
- Talk, "Social Science and the Law,
Institute for Justice annual Law Student Conference,
August 9, 1998.
- Discussant, plenary panel on diversity,
the National MultiCultural Institute's 14th
annual national conference, Washington, D.C.,
May 28, 1998.
- Participant, forum on "School Desegregation:
Race in the 1990s," with State Representative
Jay Kaufman as
moderator, Museum of Our National Heritage,
Lexington, MA , May 21, 1998.
- Presentation of paper, "Where Has All
the Order Gone: School Discipline and the Law," conference
on educational
policy, The Brookings Institution, Washington,
D.C., May 18-19, 1998.
- Debate against Prof. Ronald Walters, "Resolved:
Racial Preferences Should Not Be a Part of Affirmative
Action Programs," School of Public Affairs,
University of
Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park,
MD, May 17, 1998.
- Participant, panel, "In Perfect Harmony--Ethnic
and Race Relations in America," annual
meeting, The American Jewish Committee, Washington,
D.C., May 15, 1998.
- Discussant, with Orlando Patterson and Thomas
Kane, "Affirmative Action Under Fire: Progress
and Prospects," The Brookings Institution,
Washington D.C.,
May 4, 1998.
- Moderator, panel on "Involving Faculty
in the Arts and Sciences in K-12 Education Reforms:
Obstacles and Opportunities," National
Association of Scholars, conference on K-12
State Standards and Assessment, May 2, 1998,
Worcester, MA.
- Participant, debate, "Is America Returning
to Segregation?," Suffolk Law School,
April 21, 1998.
- Lecture, "Black Progress in the Pre-Affirmative
Action Decades, 1940-1970." annual Wade
Lecture Series,
Kentucky Wesleyan College, Owensboro, KY, April
15, 1998.
- Participant, panel on affirmative action,
University of Colorado, School of Health Sciences
Denver, CO, April 3, 1998.
- Speaker, The Center for New Black Leadership's
dinner
honoring Congressman J.C. Watts, Hyatt Regency
Hotel, Washington, D.C., March 26, 1998.
- Participant (with Stephan Thernstrom), panel
on affirmative
action in higher education, Vermont Law School,
March 18, 1997.
- Talk (with Stephan Thernstrom), "Contemporary
Issues Forum," St Mark's Episcopal Church,
New Canaan, CT,
March 8,1998.
- Talk (with Stephan Thernstrom) on America
in Black and White, Department of History,
Harvard University, March 5, 1998.
- Featured speaker, Black History Month program
entitled "A Conversation About Race," Boston
University, February
26, 1998.
- Participant, panel discussion (with Stephan
Thernstrom, Lawrence
Bobo and Keith Reeves) on "The
Politics of Race," J.F. Kennedy School
of Government, Harvard University, February
24, 1998.
- Lecture, Washington University Law School
(sponsored by a variety of student groups),
February 17, 1998, on the Kerner Commission
Report.
- Luncheon talk, Lawyers' chapter of the Federalist
Society,
St. Louis, MO, February 17, 1998, on the Kerner
Commission Report.
- Remarks, Press conference on state initiatives
to end
racial preferences in the public sector, Dirksen
Senate Office Bldg, Rm 562, February 2, 1998
(Also participating: Ward Connerly, Rep. Charles
T. Canady, Clint Bolick, Linda Chavez.)
- Forum on America in Black and White, with
Newark Mayor James Sharpe and two other commentators,
Montclair
Kimberley Academy, Montclair, N.J., January
27, 1998.
- Luncheon address on America in Black and
White, at the Swissotel, Boston, hosted by
the Pioneer Institute, January 22, 1998.
- "Affirmative Action: Life After Taxman," panel
discussion hosted by The New York Women's Bar
Association and the NYU Center of Labor and Employment
Law, at the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardell,
New York, January
20, 1998.
- Panalist, "A National Conversation on
Race, Ethnicity, and Culture," sponsored
by The National
Conference and Aetna, Inc., Hartford, Conn.,
January 15,1998. (Broadcast simultaneously
to selected sites across the nation via Aetna's
satellite network.)
- One of a group of nine who met with President
Clinton
and the Vice-President in the Oval Office to
discuss the issue of race, December 19, 1997.
- Panelist, "Would the Abolition of Race
Preferences Be Good for Higher Education?" Seventh
National Conference
of the National Association of Scholars, Le
Meridien Hotel, New Orleans, December 14, 1997.
- Participant, "Town Meeting on Race" led
by President
Clinton, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio,
December 3, 1997. (Contact: Ann Lewis, Director
of Communications, The White House, 202/456-2640.)
- Talk, panel discussion on America in Black
and White,
The Woodrow Wilson International Center for
Scholars, Smithsonian Institution, November
18, 1997.
- Participant, panel discussion, conference
on America in Black and White sponsored by
the Manhattan Institute, November 6, 1997,
The Roosevelt Hotel, New York City.
- Informal talk (with Stephan Thernstrom)
on America in Black and White, staff meeting,
United States Information Agency, Washington,
D.C., October 28, 1997.
- Speaker, panel on "Race Relations: Can
We Get Along?," business luncheon, the
U.S. Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce,
Washington, D.C., October 28, 1997.
- Speaker, luncheon to talk about America
in Black and White with congressional staff,
hosted by the House Subcommittee on the Constitution
and the
Heritage Foundation, Rm H137 in the Capitol,
October
16, 1997.
- Participant, "Practice Group Session" on
civil rights,
1997 National Lawyers Convention, The Federalist
Society, Washington D.C., October 16, 1997.
- Lecture (with Stephan Thernstrom) on America
in Black
and White, John F.Kennedy Library, Boston,
October 12, 1997.
- Participant, roundtable discussion on "Black
and White at Harvard and Radcliffe" organized
by the Radcliffe
Quarterly, October 9, 1997.
- Speaker (with Stephan Thernstrom), book
luncheon, America in Black and White, hosted
by the Independent Women's Forum, Washington,
D.C. October 6, 1997.
- Speaker, "Panel on Affirmative Action
Law and Policy," annual meeting of the
American Political Science Association, September
29, 1997, Sheraton Washington Hotel.
- Speaker (with Stephan Thernstrom), luncheon
on America
in Black and White hosted by the Manhattan
Institute and held at the New York Helmsley
Hotel, September 24, 1997.
- Bradley lecture (given with Stephan Thernstrom),
American
Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C., September
15, 1997. Topic: America in Black and White.
- Luncheon speaker (with Stephan Thernstrom),
at the
International Center, Washington, D.C., September
10, 1997, sponsored by the Center for Equal
Opportunity and the Manhattan Institute. Topic:
America in Black and White.
- Lecture on America in Black and White sponsored
by Sen.
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Dirksen Senate Office
Building, Washington, D.C. September 10, 1997.
- Remarks, press conference introducing the
Civil Rights Act of 1997, Dirkson Senate Office
Building, Washington, D.C. ,June 17, 1997.
- Talk, Federalist Society, Boston College
School of Law, April 17, 1997.
- Talk, Federalist Society, University of
Connecticut Law School, April 15, 1997.
- Talk (with Stephan Thernstrom, Rhode Island
Association
of Scholars, Providence College, April 9, 1997.
- Lecture on affirmative action, Lecture Series
on American
Constitutionalism, Southwest Texas State University,
November 22, 1996.
- Participant, Symposium on "Group Conflict
and the Constitution," Yale Law School,
November 14,
1996.
- Panelist, Symposium on affirmative action,
sponsored
by the Whitney Humanities Center and the Yale
Law School, October 17, 1996.
- Panelist, panel on affirmative action with
Christopher
Edley, Glenn Loury and other guests, alumni
weekend, School of Education, Harvard University,
April 27, 1996
- Panelist, panel on "Affirmative Action:
From Promise to Controversy," with Christopher
Edley and other
guests, Tufts University, April 24, 1996.
- Panelist, panel on race, Dark Ages Weekend,
Miami,
FL, December 29, 1995-Jan. 1, 1996.
- Participant, Institute for Justice press
conference on Supreme Court arguments in two
voting rights cases, National Press Club, December
4, 1995.
- Participant, panel discussion on affirmative
action,
National Lawyers Conference of the Federalist
Society,
Washington D.C., September 23, 1995.
- Participant, Conference on the 1994-1995
Term of the U.S. Supreme Court, Touro Law Center,
Huntington,
N.Y., October 6, 1995
- Debate (with James Turner, who at one time
headed
the Civil Rights Division in the U.S. Department
of Justice) on affirmative action, Nichols
College, Dudley, MA, September 14, 1995.
- Participant, panel discussion on "The
End of Group Identity in Politics?" opening
session, annual
meeting of the American Sociological Association,
August 19, 1995.
- Participant, press conference held by Senator
Dole
and Charles Canady, July 27, 1995, Capitol
Hill, introducing bill to abolish race and
gender preferences in federal employment and
contracts.
- Participant, evening forum on affirmative
action, National Press Club, June 29, 1995,
sponsored by the Washington Association of
Black Journalists and the Capital City Chapter
of the Coalition of 100 Black Women and moderated
by Beryl Anderson, WABJ president.
- Participant, evening debate with William
Coleman, Glenn Loury and Christopher Edley,
moderated by Juan Williams, on affirmative
action, The Woodrow Wilson Center, Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, D.C., June 21, 1995.
- Luncheon address on affirmative action,
Independent Women's Forum, June 21, 1995.
- Participant, Press Conference on Voting
Rights at the National Press Club (sponsored
by The Center for Equal Opportunity), Washington
D.C., April 18, 1995.
- Speaker, conference on "Public Policy
and the American Community," Hubert H.
Humphrey Institute, University of Minnesota,
April 8, 1995.
- Paper, "The Black Presence in American
Politics," at a Fulbright Collquium on "The
Quest for Equality," University of London,
March 27, 1995.
- Speaker, conference on voting rights, Emory
Law School
(Atlanta, Georgia), February 23, 1994.
- Speaker, Federalist Society, Yale Law School,
February
9, 1995.
- Participant, Briefing on Civil Rights (sponsored
by The
Institute for Justice), Capitol Hill, January
19, 1995.
- Participant, Colloquium on "Where Has
Herbert Croly Taken Us and How Do We Like It
Here?" sponsored by the Hudson Institute,
Washington, D.C.
December 7, 1994.
- Talk, "Minority Voting Rights," meeting
of the Union
of American Hebrew Congregations, New York
City, October 24, 1994.
- Keynote address, conference on voting rights,
University
of North Carolina at Wilmington, September
23, 1994.
- Luncheon talk on voting rights, The Federalist
Society,
Atlanta, Georgia, July 7, 1994.
- Talk, "Voting Rights," American
Jewish Committee, National Affairs Commission,
New York City, N.Y., June 20, 1994.
- Lecture, "Black Politics," Middlebury
College, April
13, 1994.
- Talk, "The American Dilemma Revisited," Massachusetts
Association of Scholars," Amherst, MA,
October 20, 1993.
- Paper commentator, Workshop on Race, Ethnicity,
Representation
and Governance, Center for American Political
Studies, Harvard Unviersity, June 8-9, 1992.
- Witness, Hearings on the Voting Rights Act,
Subcommittee
on Civil and Constitutional Rights, Committee
on the Judiciary, U.S. House of Representatives,
Washington,
D.C., April 8, 1992.
- Talk, "Race and Schooling," Duke
Association of
Scholars, Duke University, April 3, 1992
- Paper, "Voting Rights and Redistricting
Symposium," sponsored by La Raza Law Journal,
Law School, University
of California, Berkeley (Boalt Hall), March
13-14, 1992.
- Participant, symposium, "The Changing
Culture of the University," Partisan Review,
March 6, 1992,
the University Club, New York City.
- Briefing, "Making Achievement Matter:
Public School Reform in Massachusetts," Mass
Insight, February
12, 1992.
- Speech, conference, "Focus on Children:
The Beat of the Future," School of Journalism,
Columbia University,
February 4, 1992
- Panelist, "Entrepreneurial Education:
Bringing the Bottom Line Into the Classroom," Horace
Mann Forums,
cosponsored by the John F.Kennedy Library and
the Horace Mann Foundation, Kennedy Library,
Boston, November 12, 1991.
- Panelist, "Affirmative Action--Is It Working?," Temple
Israel, Boston,
November 7, 1991.
- Panelist on "Beyond the Right to Vote:
Changing the Meaning of Fair and Effective Representation," Twenty-Second
Annual Leadership
Conference, Center for the Study of the Presidency,
Richmond, Virginia, November 1-3, 1991.
- Co-Chair, workshop on "What's Happening
in K-12 Education," third general convention
of the National
Association of Scholars, Minneapolis, MN, October
18-20, 1991.
- Testimony before the Pennsylvania Legislative
Reapportionment
Commission, Harrisburg, Penn., September 5,
l99l
- Address, "Minority Voting Rights," program
on "Drawing the Lines: The Law, The Issues,
and the Technology of Reapportionment," annual
meeting of the
American Bar Association, Atlanta, Georgia,,
August 10, 1991.
- Talk, "Electoral Systems and Voting Rights,
International Conference on Ethnic Conflict Resolution
Under Rule of Law," sponsored by the United
States Institute
of Peace, Washington D.C., June 12-14, 1991.
- Talk, "A New Moment in America?: A Washington
Conversation on Politics and Culture," Washington
D.C., May 10-11,
1991.
- Talk, "The Question of Race-Exclusive
Scholarships," conference organized by
the National Association of Scholars, The New
School, New York, May 4, 1991
- Participant, symposium on Public Education
in Massachusetts,
sponsored by the Pioneer Institute and Nichols
College, April 28, 1991.
- Participant, "Choice in Massachusetts," Olin
Foundation seminar
on educational choice, New York, April 25,
1991
- Address, "The Voting Rights Act Twenty-Five
Years Later," Symposium on the Voting
Rights Act, U.S. Department of Justice, November
16, 1990
- Paper, "Thinking About School Choice," annual
meeting of the
American Political Science Association, San
Francisco, September 1990.
- Paper, "Standards and Double-Standards
in Higher Education," conference on "Second
Thoughts About Race in America," Sheraton-Carlton
Hotel, Washington,
D.C., May 3, 1990.
- Paper, Conference on "Tomorrow's Challenges
for the University," The Ohio State University,
April 10-11,
1990.
- Talk, "Affirmative Action in Higher Education," Commonwealth
Center for the
Study of American Culture, College of William
and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, February 22, 1990.
- Participant, Liberty Fund/Fraser Institute
Colloquium, San
Diego, January 26-28, 1990, "Liberty,
Free Markets
and the Role of Government."
- Paper, "Harper v. Virginia Board of Elections," conference
on "Virginia and the Constitution," Virginia
Commonwealth
University, November 2-3, 1989.
- Participant, Conference on U.S.-French Immigration
Policy
sponsored by the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences, L'Abbaye Royaumont, France, October
12-14,
1989.
- Participant, Workshop on Immigration, Ethnicity
and American Social Life sponsored by the National
Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences,
Woods Hole, MA, Sept. 14-15, 1989.
- Chair, panel on "The Voting Rights Act," annual
meeting of the
American Political Science Association, Atlanta,
August 31-Septemper 3, 1989.
- Commentator, panel on "The Bill of Rights:
Individual, Institutional, Minority, Majority
Perspectives," annual APSA meeting, September
1989.
- Chair, roundtable discussion of the Voting
Rights
Act, annual meeting of the Western Political
Science
Association, Salt Lake City, Utah, March 30-April
1 1989.
- Discussant, Roundtable on the Bush administration,
WPSA
meeting.
- Commentator, panel on "Reexamining Constitutional
Protections," WPSA meeting.
- Conference on "One Person, One Vote," The
Twentieth Century
Fund, January 1989.
- Chair, roundtable discussion of the Voting
Rights
Act, annual meeting of the American Political
Science
Association, Washington, D.C., August 1986.
- Conference on "American Society: Public
and Private Responsibilities," John F.
Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University,
March 1986.
- Chair, roundtable discussion of the Voting
Rights
Act, annual meeting of the American Political
Science
Association, New Orleans, August 1985.
- Panelist, "Administering Rights: Law,
Courts and Public Administration," sixth
annual conference
of the Association for Public Policy Analysis
and Management (APPAM), New Orleans, October
1984.
- Chair, roundtable discussion of the Voting
Rights
Act, annual meeting of the American Political
Scienceds
Association, Washington, D.C., August 1984.
- Panelist, "The Constitution and the Fourteenth
Amendment," The Intercollegiate Studies
Institute, Inc.
and the Claremont Institute for the Study of
Statesmanship and Political Philosophy, Claremont
Graduate School, February 1983.
- Paper, "Identifying Electoral Discrimination," "Conference
on the Voting Rights Act," Pomona College,
Claremont, CA,
February 1983.
- Commentator, Session on "Blacks and Youth:
Political Protest and the Electoral System," annual
meeting of the
American Historical Association, Los Angeles,
December 1981.
- Participant and rapporteur, The American
Assembly on Ethnic Groups in the United States,
Arden House, Harriman, N.Y., November 1981.
- Participant, Seminar on "Judicial Power
in the U.S.: What are the Appropriate Constraints?," The
American Enterprise
Institute, Washington, D.C., October 1981.
- Paper, "The Voting Rights Act: The Statutory
Meaning of Electoral Discrimination," annual
meeting of the
American Political Science Association, New
York, September 1981.
- Symposium on "Voting Rights and the Impact
of the Bolden decision," The Rockefeller
Foundation, New
York April 1981.
- Symposium on the Voting Rights Act, American
Bar Association,
Special Committee on Election Law and Voter
Participation, Washington D.C., April 1981.
- Talk, Meeting of the Education Issues Task
Force,
American Federation of Teachers, Bal Harbour,
Florida,
January 1981.
- Talk, Conference on "Bilingualism and
Biculturalism: The American Experience," Center
for Study of
the American Experience, Annenberg School of
Communications, University of Southern California,
Los Angeles, May 1980.
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