UF Law center welcomes prominent legal theorist for spring lecture

Author: Unknown Publication Date: Tuesday March 22, 2011

In 2009, African-American Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. was arrested by a white police officer while attempting to gain entry into his own home. The incident forced the nation to turn its attention to the case and consider issues of race and class in the United States. Harvard Law professor Charles Ogletree served as Gates’ attorney and the charges were dropped.

Ogletree’s latest book, “The Presumption of Guilt: The Arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Race, Class and Crime in America,” details the Gates incident and uses it as a springboard to look at broader issues of race in America.

Ogletree will give the UF Center for the Study of Race and Race Relations’ 2011 Spring Lecture. His talk is titled “Are We in A Post-Racial Society? Race in America Today.” It will be held at noon Thursday, March 24, at the Fredric G. Levin College of Law, in Holland Hall, room 180.