Gerald Torres, co-author with Lani Guinier of The Miner’s Canary: Enlisting Race, Resisting Power, Transforming Democracy, a treatise on race in America, will speak for both the Assembly Series and the School of Law.
The lecture, “Knowledge, Power and Democracy: Insights From the Civil Rights and Environmental Movements,” will be at 4 p.m. Oct. 28 in Graham Chapel.
Torres is the H.O. Head Centennial Professor in Real Property Law at the University of Texas and is president of the American Association of Law Schools. He has served as counsel to the attorney general on issues of environmental law and policy, and on Indian affairs.
He also was deputy assistant attorney general for the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Torres is a graduate of Yale Law School.
Assembly Series talks are free and open to the public.
For more information, call 935-5285 or go online to assemblyseries.wustl.edu.