Robin West

Frederick Hass Professor of Law and Philosophy, Georgetown University Law Center

Faculty Director, Georgetown Center for the Study of Law and Humanities

Lecture Description:

The lecture presents a conception of civil rights as rights to participate in the legal regimes that structure civil society, rather than as anti-discrimination rights per se.

• History of the idea of civil rights
• Civil Rights contrasted with constitutional rights
• Civil Rights as ”Rights to Enter”

Speaker Bio:

Robin West is the Frederick J. Haas Professor of Law and Philosophy and Faculty Director of the Georgetown Center for the Study of Law and Philosophy at Georgetown University Law Center. Professor West has written extensively on gender issues and feminist legal theory, constitutional law and theory, jurisprudence, legal philosophy, and law and literature. She is the author of, most recently, Teaching Law: Justice, Politics and the Demands of Professionalism, and Normative Jurisprudence: An Introduction, both from Cambridge University Press. West earned her B.A. and J.D. from the University of Maryland and her J.S.M. from Stanford.