Race Preferences After Grutter

Cleveland Lawyers Chapter

Speaker:

• Terence J. Pell, President,  Center for Individual Rights

Speaker:

• Terence J. Pell, President, Center for Individual Rights

Terence J. Pell is president of the Center for Individual Rights in Washington, D.C., a national advocacy organization dedicated to the defense of individual liberties. The Center for Individual Rights was actively involved in the twin cases of Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. Bollinger, in which the United States Supreme Court set new rules for the use of racial preferences in college and law school admissions.

Pell worked as an attorney for many years with the Washington, D.C. firm of Arent, Fox, Kintner, Plotkin & Kahn. Mr. Pell then served in the Reagan Administration from 1985 to 1988 as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights at the United States Department of Justice. He later served as General Counsel and Chief of Staff at the Office of National Drug Control Policy.

Pell earned his Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame, his J.D. from Cornell University Law School, and his undergraduate degree from Haverford College. Mr. Pell is the author of many articles including: "Racial Preferences and Formal Equality." Journal of Social Philosophy (Forthcoming, Summer 2003); "Does 'Diversity' Justify Quotas? The Courts Say No." Wall Street Journal November 24, 1998, Sec. A p. 22; "Racial Preferences and Racial Progress: Analyzing Nathan Glazer's Argument." Academic Questions, 11 (Fall, 1998) No. 4: 81-85; "Conservatives and the Courts: Judicial Activism on the Right." Philanthropy (May/June, 1998).

RSVP: David C. Tryon, Esq. to (216) 443-2560, [email protected]

COST: $13 (Includes buffet lunch)