Professor Charles Ogletree

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Charles Ogletree is the Harvard Law School Jesse Climenko Professor of Law and Director of the Criminal Justice Institute.   In addition, Professor Ogletree serves Harvard Law School as the Executive Director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice as well as Director of the Trial Advocacy Workshop and Saturday School Program.   Professor Ogletree is a prominent legal theorist who has made an international reputation by taking a hard look at complex issues of law and by working to secure the rights guaranteed by the Constitution for everyone equally under the law.\

In 1998, Professor Ogletree was awarded the Jesse Climenko Professor of Law chair at Harvard Law School. He holds honorary doctorates of law from North Carolina Central University, New England School of Law, Tougaloo College, Amherst College, Wilberforce University, and the University of Miami School of Law.

Professor Ogletree earned an M.A. and B.A. (with distinction) in Political Science from Stanford University, where he was Phi Beta Kappa. He also holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School where he served as Special Projects Editor of the Harvard Civil Rights – Civil Liberties Law Review .

Professor Ogletree is the author of All Deliberate Speed: Reflections on the First Half-Century of Brown v. Board of Education , published by W.W. Norton & Company and released in April of 2004 ( www.alldeliberatespeed.com). He is the co-author of the award-winning book, Beyond the Rodney King Story: An Investigation of Police Conduct in Minority Communities , and he frequently contributes to the Harvard Law Review , among other publications. He has written chapters in several books, including If You Buy the Hat, He Will Come , in Faith of Our Fathers: African American Men Reflect on Fatherhood and The Tireless Warrior for Racial Justice , which appears in Reason & Passion: Justice Brennan’s Enduring Influence.

Event

Unity in the Community Social Justice Roundtable
Where: St. Stephen’s Cathedral Church of God in Christ
5825 Imperial Ave., San Diego, CA 92114
When: Thursday October 16 6:30pm
For more information, please call 619-262-2671 ext. 0 or visit www.ststephenscogic.org

The Unity in the Community Social Justice Roundtable is a part of a national community dialogue designed to find common ground focusing on ideas that will solve problems and promote a proactive discussion for the common good of all. The National Unity in the Community Roundtable Tour is co-founded by Dr. Charles Ogletree and Frank Jordan.

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