“Intellectual Freedom in Dangerous Times” will be the challenge explored by Mari Matsuda on October 16, at 4 pm in Lecture Hall 150.
A noted Constitutional scholar and one of the leading voices in critical race theory since its inception, Matsuda is the John Carroll Research Professor of Law at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.. In 1998, she became the first tenured female Asian American law professor in the United States when she taught at the University of California at Los Angeles. Matsuda has served as a judicial training consultant in countries as diverse as Micronesia and South Africa, and her work has been quoted by the U.S. Supreme Court. She also has the rare dual distinction of being recognized by Ms. Magazine as one of the 100 most influential Asian Americans and being listed as one of the 101 most dangerous professors in America by neoliberal conservative David Horowitz.
The event is sponsored by the Department of Women’s Studies, the Office of the President, the Office of the Provost, the College of Liberal Arts, the Department of Asian & Asian American Studies, the Department of Criminal Justice, and the Women’s Resource Center.
