How does the federal government's war on diversity, equity, and inclusion intersect with equal protection law and the First Amendment?

For the Winter Quarter installment of the Diversity and Inclusion Reading Group, Professor Sonja Starr will lead a discussion about "The War on DEI as a Project of Constitutional Subversion," a new paper co-authored with Professor Genevieve Lakier. We will read the introduction plus additional excerpts focused on the Trump administration's efforts to use Title VI enforcement threats and other leverage points to stamp out DEI (including speech advancing ideas that the administration considers to entail "discriminatory equity ideology") at schools and universities. We will discuss the extent to which their arguments are supported by existing equality law doctrine, as well as the conflicts with the First Amendment.

Please join us on Monday, January 26, at 12:15 pm in Room F; lunch will be provided! The recommended reading will be sent to registered attendees. 

This program is sponsored by the D'Angelo Law Library.  

Space is limited to the first 25 students to RSVP, lunch will be provided for registered attendees.