Friday, June 1—10:30 a.m.–noon
Kenji Yoshino
Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights
 Kenji Yoshino is the Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at the NYU School of Law. Prior to moving to NYU, he was the inaugural Guido Calabresi Professor of Law and Deputy Dean of Intellectual Life at Yale Law School, where he taught from 1998 to 2008. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College, took a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University, and earned his law degree at Yale Law School.
A specialist in constitutional law, antidiscrimination law, and law and literature, Yoshino has published in major academic journals, such as The Columbia Law Review, The Stanford Law Review, and The Yale Law Journal. He has also written extensively in other popular venues, such as The L.A. Times, The New York Times, and The Washington Post. He is a regular contributor to Slate, and a contributing editor to The Advocate. He has appeared on "The Charlie Rose Show," "The O'Reilly Factor," "Washington Journal", and "The Tavis Smiley Show," as well as a broad number of radio shows.
His award-winning book, Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights (Random House 2006) has been chosen as the "first-year book" (the book read by incoming students as part of their orientation experience) by Pomona College, University of North Carolina, University of Richmond, and Virginia Commonwealth University. He is currently working on a book on Shakespeare and the Law to be published by Ecco Press, an imprint of HarperCollins.
Source: https://its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofiles/profile.cfm?section=bio&personID=22547
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