3122 - The Faces of Poverty in North Carolina
Course Description
The hardships triggered by intense poverty, amidst plenty, are among North Carolina’s most potent challenges. Our rates of poverty, child poverty, concentrated poverty, hunger, low wage work, and income inequality, as well as the percentage of residents without health insurance, are among the worst in the nation.
These burdens fall very disproportionately on racial minorities, women and children. And they are difficult to square with our claims to equal justice under law. Nichol will explore poverty across North Carolina principally through narrative – conversations with hundreds of impoverished rural and urban Tar Heels. He will also explore the North Carolina General Assembly poverty policies over the past decade. Join us for an insightful and informative discussion.
Course Outline
Gene Nichol is the Boyd Tinsley Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He obtained his J.D. from the University of Texas, graduating Order of the Coif. He was president of the College of William & Mary (2005-2008), law dean at the University of Colorado (1988-1995), and dean at UNC from 1999-2005. He is the author of The Faces of Poverty in North Carolina: Stories from Our Invisible Citizens (UNC Press, 2018); Federal Courts (2015, Marshall & Wells). He published articles in the Harvard, Yale, Chicago, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Duke, California, and Virginia law reviews. He’s been a columnist for the Raleigh News & Observer for over fifteen years and writes regularly for The Progressive Populist, the Charlotte Observer, and the Durham Herald.
Nichol is the recipient of numerous teaching and service awards. In 2013, the NC Council of Churches gave Nichol its Faith Active in Public Life Award; the NC-ACLU named him its W.W. Finlator Award winner; and UNC gave him its Thomas Jefferson Award, the university's highest faculty honor. In 2014, he received the McCall Teaching Award from the UNC Law School and the University of Colorado's Joanne Arnold award for courage in defense of civil liberty. In 2018, he was invited by the faculty of the University of Michigan to give the annual Davis, Markert, Nickerson Academic Freedom Lecture and he also received UNC's Wettach Award for research excellence.
Notes
This course takes place at the Friday Conference Center and consists of one session, Wednesday, May 3, from 10:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. The fee is $35.00.
CANCELLATION POLICY
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