Tanya Katerí Hernández of Fordham University School of Law was this year’s speaker in the annual Yale L. Rosenberg Memorial Lecture at the University of Houston Law Center on March 4.
Professor Hernández is an internationally recognized authority on race relations and anti-discrimination law. Her lecture will explore racism faced by the growing number of "multiracials" in the United States. Instead of changing the current legal structure, she calls for a renewed focus on existing civil rights laws in light of today's resurgence of racism. Dean Leonard M. Baynes of UH Law Center will moderate a panel discussion following her lecture titled, "Multiracials and Civil Rights: Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination."
Her research on comparative race relations and anti-discrimination law has been published in numerous university law reviews and news outlets, including The New York Times. She is the author of Racial Subordination in Latin America: The Role of the State, Customary Law and the New Civil Rights Response and Multiracials and Civil Rights: Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination.
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