Michigan Professor to Deliver UA Law School’s Hugo L. Black Lecture

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Deborah C. Malamud, professor at the University of Michigan Law School, will deliver the Hugo L. Black Lecture at The University of Alabama School of Law moot courtroom on Monday, Oct 22, at 11 a.m.

Malamud, a 1986 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, most recently has authored “Saying No to Stakeholding,” “Intuition and Science in the Race Jurisprudence of Justice Blackmun” and “Engineering the Middle Classes: Class Line-Drawing in New Deal Hours Legislation,” which focuses on race and class within the bounds of affirmative action and New Deal.

The Black Lecture was established in 1996 to honor former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black, a member of the law class of 1906. Previous Black lecturers include Kathryn Adams, Harry T. Edwards and Richard Delgado.