Word: bisharat
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Shifting from its confrontational stance against the January civil rights course offering taught by Chambers and Defense Fund Director-Counsel Jack Greenberg, the coalition has organized and launched its own non-credit course. "Racism and American Law." George E. Bisharat, a leading member of the coalition, characterized the course as alternative in two respects: "It's an alternative course to the other Third World civil rights courses, and offers an alternative format to the highly formal authoritarian pedagogy [of most law classes...
...will increase faculty awareness of student concerns. "Over 185 people signed up for the course. The numbers should send a very, very strong, clear signal to the faculty that we're not a bunch of troublemakers, that we're not isolated, and our actions are based on strong sentiment." Bisharat said this week...
...Bisharat said he expects about 12 professors and minority legal experts from around the country to come speak, although arrangements still need to be finalized for a number of the possible lectures. W. Haywood Burns '62, co-chairman of the New York-based National Conference of Black Lawyers, delivered Wednesday's lecture, speaking on "Racism and American Law. "A Historical and Theoretical Overview...
...addition to Burns Bisharat said that he has confirmed lecturers for the following three weeks: Robert T. Coulter, founder and executive director of the Indian Resource Center in Washington. D.C., John Britain, associate professor at the University of Connecticut Law School, and Neil Gotanda, assistant professor of Law at Duquesne University School of Law. The lecturers will address other legal topics involving racial discrimination, particularly with historical analysis dating back to colonial America...
...There is deep outrage against the Phalangists, Israel, and the U.S. among Harvard's Arab community," said George Bisharat, President of the Arab Students Society...