Harvard scholar offers OCU lecture on Bush, the Supreme Court

Journal Record, The (Oklahoma City), Mar 31, 2005 by Journal Record Staff

Charles J. Ogletree Jr., Harvard Law School's Jesse Climenko Professor of Law and director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, will give the 2005 Quinlan Lecture at Oklahoma City University School of Law.

His lecture, Reflections on Brown v. Board, President Bush, and the Supreme Court, is scheduled at 5 p.m. April 7 in the Sarkeys Law Center at OCU. The lecture is free and open to the public.

Ogletree is the author of All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education, published in 2004. His other books include Brown at 50: The Unfinished Legacy and Beyond the Rodney King Story: An Investigation of Police Conduct in Minority Communities.

Ogletree is a graduate of Stanford University and received his law degree from Harvard Law School. After graduating from law school in 1978, he worked as a staff attorney in the District of Columbia Public Defender Service and then entered private practice. He became an assistant professor at Harvard Law School in 1989.

He represents the plaintiffs in the Tulsa Race Riot reparations case and served as legal counsel to Anita Hill during the Senate confirmation hearings for Justice Clarence Thomas' nomination to the Supreme Court. Hill is a former professor at the University of Oklahoma School of Law.

The Quinlan Lecture is named for Oklahoma City University School of Law professor Wayne Quinlan. Born in 1917 in Woods County, Quinlan taught at Oklahoma City University from 1952 until his death in 1981.