Event Description
Drexel University School of Law student organizations celebrate diversity across the legal profession and within the Philadelphia bar during Diversity Awareness Week through a series of events surrounding issues of diversity and the law.
Feb. 19
A CONVERSATION ABOUT DISABILITY LAW
12 p.m. – 1 p.m.| Room 240
A Disability Rights Network attorney will discuss the legal difficulties that people with disabilities face, and the areas of law that are insufficient to protect people with disabilities.
Sponsored by the Health Law Society
VOTING ID LAW AND ITS IMPACT
6 p.m. – 7 p.m.| Room 140 |
This event will feature a panel moderated by Professor Tibbs.
Sponsored by BLSA and ACS
Feb. 20
CHALLENGES FACING THE LATINO COMMUNITY: Medical Repatriation, Stop & Frisk, and More
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. | Room 340
Presenter: Professor Rachel Lopez
Sponsored by LALSA
EXONEREE EVENT
5 p.m. – 6 p.m. | Room 140
Shareef Cousin who spent three years on death row in Louisiana for the murder of Alred Michael Gerardi will discuss his experience in the criminal justice system as the youngest person ever sent to death row in Louisiana.
Sponsored by NLG, Criminal Law Society, Labor & Employment Society
RECEPTION AND AWARD CEREMONY
6 p.m. – 8 p.m. | 3rd Floor Gallery
Sponsored by the SBA |
