Critical Voices: Voting Rights
February 13, 2019 @ 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
| FreeJoin the Sorensen Center for a conversation on voting rights between Michael Waldman, President of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, and Frank Deale, a Professor at CUNY School of Law and former attorney for the Center for Constitutional Rights.
Waldman is President of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, a nonpartisan law and policy institute that focuses on improving the systems of democracy and justice. He is a constitutional lawyer and writer, and is an expert on the presidency and American democracy. The Brennan Center, which Waldman has led since 2005, is a leading national voice on voting rights, money in politics, criminal justice reform and constitutional law. Waldman’s most recent book, The Fight to Vote, is a history of the struggle to win voting rights for all citizens.
Deale is a Professor at CUNY School of Law who previously served successively as staff attorney, Associate Legal Director, and Legal Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights. As a staff attorney at CCR, he carried a docket of cases being litigated all levels of the federal and state court systems throughout the US, including Rogers v. Lodge and Butts v. City of New York.