December 2021 Quarterly Dinner Meeting

Date: Wednesday, December 8, 2021
Time: 4:30pm - 6:00pm
Speaker: Dorothy A. Brown

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Topic: "The Whiteness of Wealth"

Speaker: Dorothy A. Brown

Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law

Emory University

Dorothy A. Brown is Asa Griggs Candler Professor of Law at Emory University School of Law and an advocate for economic and social justice. She is the author of THE WHITENESS OF WEALTH: HOW THE TAX SYSTEM IMPOVERISHES BLACK AMERICANS- AND HOW WE CAN FIX IT (Crown 3/23/2021). She is well known for her work in a variety of areas: the effects of tax policy by race, class, and/or gender; workplace equity and inclusion; and law school reform. She is also the author of the path breaking CRITICAL RACE THEORY: CASES, MATERIALS AND PROBLEMS currently in its third edition, which applies a racial lens to foundational law school courses such as contracts, property, civil and criminal law and procedure. She is a co-author of Federal Income Taxation: Cases, Problems, and Materials (West Academic Publishing, Sixth and Seventh editions).

She has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, and Bloomberg, and has written numerous opinion pieces addressing current events in the New York Times, The Atlantic, CNN Opinion, Washington Post, Forbes, National Law Journal and Bloomberg View to name a few.

Currently Dorothy teaches Fundamentals of Income Tax, Legislation and Regulation, Corporate Tax, Critical Race Theory and Tax Policy. She has won teaching awards at every law school she has taught. In 2018 she was co-recipient of the Clyde Ferguson Award 2018 (awarded by the AALS Minority Groups Section to outstanding law teachers who in the course of their careers have achieved excellence in the areas of public service, teaching and scholarship),

 

By now you should be familiar with our new DoorDash portal through which you will be authorized a credit of up to $75 (members) & $25 (for registered guests) that you can use for your dinner on 12/08/2021 **Please note the credit is for use only on December 8, 2021

Door Dash instructions will be included on confirmation email upon registering along with the Zoom Link. 

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