Martha Minow, the Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, will present the Fifth Annual Humanities Distinguished Lecture, sponsored by the USC Center for Law, History and Culture and the USC English Department.
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The lecture will be held Thursday, Jan. 18, at 4 p.m. in Town and Gown. A reception will follow on the Town and Gown patio at 5:30 p.m. For more information, or to RSVP, please contact Shontel Johnson at 821-1239 or via e-mail.
Minow has authored numerous books, book chapters and scholarly articles. Her books include Breaking the Cycles of Hatred: Memory, Law and Repair (2003); Partners, Nor Rivals: Privatization and the Public Good (2002); Between Vengeance and Forgiveness: Facing History After Genocide and Mass Violence (1998); and casebooks on civil procedure and on women and the law.
A magna cum laude graduate of the University of Michigan, Minow received her master’s in education from Harvard and her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was editor and articles and book review editor of the Yale Law Journal. Minow clerked for U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Judge David Bazelon and for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. She has taught at Harvard since 1981.
Minow served on the Independent International Commission Kosovo and helped to launch Imagine Co-existence, a program of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, to promote peaceful development in post-conflict societies. Her five-year partnership with the federal Department of Education and the Center for Applied Special Technology worked to expand access to the general curriculum for students with disabilities. She received an Honorary Doctor of Law from the University of Toronto Faculty of Law in 2006 and the Sacks-Freund Award for Excellence in Teaching from Harvard Law School in 2005.
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