Harvard Law Professor to Deliver Hugo L. Black Lecture at UA Law School

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Kenneth Mack of Harvard Law School will present the Hugo L. Black Lecture on “The Relationship between the Legal Realist and Civil Rights Movements” at The University of Alabama School of Law on Thursday, Oct. 30.

The lecture will be held at 1 p.m. in the Moot Court room; it is open to the public.

Mack received a bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, in electrical engineering from Drexel University (1987), a J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School (1991), and a master’s in history from Princeton University (1996). While in law school, he served as executive editor of the Harvard Law Review.

Following graduation, Mack clerked for Judge Robert L. Carter of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1991-92) and was an associate with Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. (1992-94). His research interests include civil rights history, history of the legal profession, and race, identity and the law. Mack’s publications have appeared in the Cornell Law Review, Law and Social Inquiry, and the Harvard Law Review. He has served as assistant professor of law at Harvard since 2000.

The University of Alabama established the Hugo L. Black Lecture in 1996 to honor one of its most distinguished alumni, former United States Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black, a member of the law class of 1906. Memorabilia and papers from Justice Black’s long and distinguished career are held in the special collections of the Law School’s Bounds Law Library. The library also houses a replica of Black’s study containing more than 1,000 volumes from his personal library and other memorabilia donated by the Black family.

For more information, contact Jennifer McCracken in the UA Law School at jmccrack@law.ua.edu or 205/348-5195.