Alabama State University News January 22, 2016 Dr. Bryan K. Fair to Speak at ASU’s Distinguished Lecture Series Author: Timothy C. Ervin A noted author and distinguished law professor at the University of Alabama School of Law will serve as the keynote speaker for the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences’ Distinguished Lecture Series. *** Alabama State University’s College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences will host its Distinguished Lecture Series on Sunday, Feb. 28 from 3 to 6 p.m. in John Garrick Hardy Student Center ballroom. The topic for the lecture is “The Continuing Challenges of Our Democracy: Securing Equality for All.” Dr. Bryan K. Fair, an author and distinguished law professor at the University of Alabama School of Law, will be the guest speaker. The cost to attend the lecture is $15 for students, $35 for faculty and staff, and $300 for a table. Funds will be used to help support research and student travel at ASU. For tickets and more information, contact Gina Brown at 334-229-5176 or email: ghbrown@alasu.edu<mailto:ghbrown@alasu.edu>. After earning his bachelor’s degree from Duke University and a law degree from UCLA, Fair worked as an associate with Bryan, Cave, McPheeters & McRoberts in Los Angeles. In 1987, he joined the UCLA law faculty as a lecturer and co-directed its Academic Support Program. He served as a commissioner of the California State Bar Commission on Minority Access to the Legal Profession and as a Public Counsel legal services volunteer. Fair joined the University of Alabama law faculty in 1991 and was named the Thomas E. Skinner Professor of Law in 2000. He is an 11-time member of the law school commencement hooding team (selected by students), and twice has been named the law school’s outstanding faculty member (selected by students). He also has received the University’s Outstanding Commitment to Teaching Award given each year by the National Alumni Association. Fair is the author of “Notes of a Racial Caste Baby: Colorblindness and the End of Affirmative Action” (NYU Press 1997). His research agenda remains focused on equality theory under the Fourteenth Amendment, with the central theme that equal protection jurisprudence has lost its anti-caste moorings, rendering it largely obsolete to address significant forms of American caste. He is a member of the American Law Institute and has served on ABA, AALS, and LSAC committees. He has served on numerous boards and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Southern Poverty Law Center. SANDRA M. PHOENIX Executive Director HBCU Library Alliance sphoenix@hbculibraries.org<mailto:sphoenix@hbculibraries.org> www.hbculibraries.org<http://www.hbculibraries.org/> 800-999-8558, ext. 4820 404-702-5854 Skype: sandra.phoenix1 1438 West Peachtree NW Suite 200 Atlanta,GA 30309 Toll Free: 1.800.999.8558 (LYRASIS) Fax: 404.892.7879 www.lyrasis.org<http://www.lyrasis.org/> Honor the ancestors, honor the children.