TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — U.S. District Judge Myron H. Thompson will deliver the keynote address for the Alabama Law Review symposium as it marks the 50th anniversary of the Voting Rights Act at noon Feb. 27 at The University of Alabama School of Law.
Thompson was appointed to the federal bench in 1980. He became Chief Judge in February of 1991, becoming the first African-American Chief Judge of any U.S. District Court in the state of Alabama.
Along with Thompson, the nation’s foremost experts on the Voting Rights Act will commemorate the 50th anniversary of this historic enactment during a one-day symposium that begins at 8 a.m. in the Bedsole Moot Courtroom, room 140.
They are: Jack Bass, author of “Taming the Storm”; Guy-Uriel Charles, professor, Duke University School of Law; Kareem Crayton, professor, University of North Carolina School of Law; Richard L. Hasen, professor, University of California Irvine School of Law; Samuel Issacharoff, professor, New York University School of Law; Pamela Karlan, deputy assistant attorney general and professor, Stanford Law School; and Franita Tolson, professor, Florida State University College of Law.
The event is free and open to the public. Visit law.ua.edu/votingrights for more information or to register for the event.
The Alabama Law Review is a nationally recognized journal of legal scholarship and the flagship legal journal in Alabama.
Contact
Monique Fields, manager of communications, UA School of Law, 205/348-5195, mfields@law.ua.edu