Christopher Edley Lecture: Education Is Not a Fundamental Civil Right, But Could It Be?

Stanford School of Education Cubberley Lecture Series Presents:

Christopher Edley, Jr., Dean and Professor of Law at U.C. Berkeley

Professor Christopher Edley will address the question of civil rights as it relates to education, discussing his research related to Brown v. Board of Education, the No Child Left Behind Act, and state education finance.

A Q&A session and reception will immediately follow the lecture.

Christopher Edley, Jr. joined U.C. Berkeley School of Law as dean and professor of law in 2004 after 23 years as a professor at Harvard Law School. He earned a law degree and a master's degree in public policy from Harvard, where he served as an editor and officer of the Harvard Law Review. Edley's academic work is primarily in the areas of civil rights and administrative law. Edley was co-founder of the Harvard Civil Rights Project, a reknowned multidisciplinary research and policy think tank focused on issues of racial justice. His publications include "Not All Black and White: Affirmative Action, Race and American Values," and "Administrative Law: Rethinking Judicial Control of Bureaucracy." In 1995, he was also special counsel to President Bill Clinton, directing the White House review of affirmative action. He returned in 1997 as a consultant to President Clinton's advisory board on the race initiative. From 1999-2005, Edley served on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.