Louise McBee Lecture in Higher Education: “The Evolving Social Contract of Higher Education”

Delivered by Joan T.A. Gabel, president, University of Minnesota.

Gabel is the 17th president to serve at the University of Minnesota, one of the largest university systems in the U.S. Her scholarship focuses on the public higher education mission, ethical governance and women’s leadership.

The Mason Public Leadership Lecture: Dr. Raphael W. Bostic

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Dr. Raphael Bostic serves as the 15th president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta. He is responsible for all the institution’s activities, including monetary policy, bank supervision and regulation, and payment services. Bostic previously held the Judith and John Bedrosian Chair in Governance and the Public Enterprise at the University of Southern California.

Constitution Day Lecture

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The American Founding Group and the UGA School of Public and International Affairs are hosting a virtual celebration of Constitution Day. The centerpiece of these festivities will be a virtual lecture and discussion titled “On Juneteenth: History, Memory, the Present and the Future” by Annette Gordon-Reed, Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hemingses of Monticello and On Juneteenth.

22nd Annual Symposium on Legal Ethics & Professionalism (Virtual)

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Fundamental ethical questions abound in lawyering for the President—Who is the client? How far is too far in terms of advocating a legal position? When, if ever, is it appropriate to follow directives from the President? What is the proper balance between privileged communications and the public’s right to know? This Symposium will examine how lawyers—public and private—dealt (or should have dealt) with these and other difficult questions in relation to various administrations. 

COMPLETE OUTAGE of campus Internet access and campus information systems

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EITS will conduct network maintenance that will result in complete outages of campus Internet access and campus information systems on Saturday, October 23, 2021, from 6:00 a.m. until 11:59 p.m. 

Please make note that unlike previous planned network maintenances where there were intermittent outages, this maintenance will result in a complete outage of access to services.

Business as Usual: Inequality and Health Litigation during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil with Natalia Pires de Vasconcelos

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Brazil's active judicial system has the power to define the constitutional content of the country's healthcare policy by forcing the government to embrace equal protection of the right to health. In this talk, I present the results of an upcoming chapter in which I compare the pandemic’s effect on the judicial protection of the right to health for those incarcerated and those who are free. In both cases, courts had serious incentives to take the pandemic seriously and consider its disproportionate impact on marginalized communities.

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