The University of Detroit Mercy School of Law will present the third annual Dewitt C. Holbrook Lecture on Social Justice online this year on Monday, March 22, from 5 to 6 p.m. via Zoom.
This lecture series provides prominent leaders in the legal profession a forum to address issues on law and policy related to social justice. For this year's lecture, Professor Ruqaiijah Yearby of Saint Louis University School of Law will speak on "Now or Never: Eradicating Structural Racism in the Government's Pandemic Response."
Yearby is a professor of law and member of the Center for Health Law Studies at Saint Louis University School of Law. She is also co-founder and executive director of Saint Louis University's Institute for Healing Justice and Equity. Yearby is an expert in racial health disparities, who advocates for equal access to quality health care and fair wages for racial and ethnic minorities, women, and the poor. Her work has been published in the American Journal of Bioethics, Health Affairs, and the Oxford Journal of Law and the Biosciences and been used in law and medical schools, and social science classes at universities such as Harvard, NYU, Fordham, and the University of California Berkeley.
To register for the free event, visit https://lawschool.udmercy.edu and scroll down to "Virtual Events." Additional Zoom information will be provided via email to all registrants 1 to 2 days before this virtual lecture.
Anyone with questions can contact Sunny Kerschenheiter at kerschsc@udmercy.edu.
