2008 Program

FOURTH ANNUAL FAIR HOUSING LAW FOR THE PEOPLE: *THE CIVIL RIGHTS LAW SCHOOL*

“THE COMING WORLD: FAIR AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING IN THE 21ST CENTURY”

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 2008 9:00 AM—1:00 PM HOWARD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW MOOT COURTROOM

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AGENDA

8:00 am - 9:30 am Registration—Moot Court Foyer | Continental Breakfast — Moot Court Foyer

9:15 am Introduction and Welcome:

Kurt L. Schmoke, Dean, Howard University School of Law

The Howard Clinical Law Program: Professor Josephine Ross

HUSL Fair Housing Clinical Law Program: Adjunct Professor Brian Gilmore

9:30 am -11:00 am

Panel Discussion:

Moot Courtroom Moderator: Adjunct Professor Rawle Andrews, Esquire, Senior Counsel, Legal Counsel for Elderly
Guest Panelists:

Mary Hahn, Director, Fair Housing Project — Washington Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law

Oramenta Newsome, Exceutive Director, Local Initatives Support Corporation (LISC)

Wendell Pritchett, Law Professor, University of Pennsylvania School of Law & Advisor to Presidential Candidate Barack Obama.

11:15 Am - 12:45 pm

A screening of the acclaimed film, “BRICK BY BRICK, ” by William Kavanaugh

Brick by Brick: A Civil Rights Story is a one-hour television documentary about a contemporary American battle for civil rights. It follows three families in Yonkers, New York, in the middle of a confrontation about the politics and law of racial discrimination in housing and schools that challenges and changes their hometown.

Brick by Brick tracks the resulting federal US v Yonkers litigation, which challenged neighborhood and educational discrimination. Coming back out of the courtroom into the community, the story describes the bitter local confrontation about race and the very concept of community that follows. From a first person perspective, characters weave a tale of years of work attempting to achieve justice, with a labyrinth of successes and setbacks that the struggle entails.