Published: Sept. 14, 2021

Thanks to all who joined us for the annual John and Katherine Rosenbloom Endowed Symposium for the Exploration of Ideas on Tuesday, October 26. This interdisciplinary conversation addressed the State of Equality in 2021. 

Dean Lolita Buckner Inniss of the University of Colorado Law School moderated a discussion by scholars of law, philosophy, and politics on these questions and more.

The John and Katherine Rosenbloom Endowed Symposium for the Exploration of Ideas was established in 2016 to support engaging interdisciplinary, relevant, and thoughtful discussions on important issues in honor of former Colorado Law Dean Phil Weiser and the lectures he implemented during his deanship. Presented as a partnership between the University of Colorado Law School and the University of Colorado Boulder Conference on World Affairs.

Watch the recording of the discussion below:

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Speaker Biographies

Hosein

Adam Omar Hosein

Fellow-in-Residence, Safra Center for Ethics, Harvard University • Associate Professor of Philosophy, Northeastern University
Speaker
For the academic year 2021-22, Adam Omar Hosein is a Fellow-in-Residence at the Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. Professor Hosein works mainly in moral, political, and legal philosophy, with a special interest in areas of international concern and issues relating to race or gender. He is an Associate Professor of Philosophy and Affiliate Professor of Law at Northeastern University. Before coming to Northeastern, Professor Hosein was an Associate...
Siegel

Reva Siegel

Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Speaker
Reva Siegel is the Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law at Yale University. Professor Siegel’s writing draws on legal history to explore questions of law and inequality, and to analyze how courts interact with representative government and popular movements in interpreting the Constitution. She is currently writing on the role of social movement conflict in guiding constitutional change, addressing this question in recent articles on the enforcement of Brown, originalism...
Wilson

James Lindley Wilson

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago
Speaker
James Lindley Wilson is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. His research interests span political philosophy, ethics, and law. Most of his work focuses on normative democratic theory, including the moral evaluation of democracy and what democratic ideals require of citizens and institutions. His book, Democratic Equality (Princeton University Press, 2019), articulates the moral force of the democratic idea that all citizens...

Moderator Biography

Inniss

Lolita Buckner Inniss

Dean of the University of Colorado Law School, Provost's Professor of Law
Moderator
Lolita Buckner Inniss is the dean of the University of Colorado Law School, and is also Provost's Professor of Law. Before coming to CU Law she served as Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and a Professor of Law at SMU Dedman School of Law. At SMU she was a University Distinguished Professor, an honor reserved for SMU faculty members who demonstrate the highest levels of academic achievement. She was...