Dr. Donald C. Katt Institute for Constitutional Studies Lecture
Professor Deborah N. Archer, Associate Professor of Clinical Law; Co-Faculty Director of the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law; and Director of the Civil Rights Clinic at NYU School of Law, will deliver the Dr. Donald C. Katt Institute for Constitutional Studies fall 2020 virtual lecture “Have We Failed to Fulfill the Promise of the 14th Amendment?” on Constitution Day, Thursday, September 17. Sponsored by the Ulster Community College Foundation, Inc., the lecture can be viewed from any location with Internet access at 7 p.m. through SUNY Ulster’s YouTube Channel and through a Facebook Watch Party.
Deborah N. Archer is an Associate Professor of Clinical Law at NYU School of Law and Co-Director of the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law. She is a nationally recognized expert in civil rights and racial justice, and teaches and writes in the areas of racial justice, civil rights, and clinical pedagogy.
Professor Archer is a graduate of Yale Law School, where she was awarded the Charles G. Albom Prize, and Smith College. She previously worked as an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc., where she litigated in the areas of voting rights, employment discrimination, and school desegregation. She was also a member of the faculty at New York Law School for fifteen years and an associate at the firm Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett. Ms. Archer is currently a member of the Board of Directors and General Counsel to the Board of the American Civil Liberties Union. She is also the chair of the American Association of Law School’s Section on Civil Rights and a former chair of the Section on Minority Groups. She previously served on the New York City Civilian Complaint Review Board, the nation’s oldest and largest police oversight agency, and the 2018 New York City Charter Revision Commission. Ms. Archer received the Otto L. Walter Distinguished Writing Award and the 2014 Haywood Burns/Shanara Guilbert Award from the Northeast People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference. She was recently recognized by the New York Law Journal as one of New York’s Top Women in the Law.
Founded in 2009, the mission of the Dr. Donald C. Katt Institute fo
Founded in 2009, the mission of the Dr. Donald C. Katt Institute for Constitutional Studies is to help college faculty, students, teachers, business people, the legal community, and the general public in the Mid-Hudson Valley deepen their understanding of the fundamental principles of the United States and the New York State constitutions, their history and their
Professor Emeritus, Dr. Ray Raymond, recently retired from SUNY Ulster as Professor of Government and History in June 2020 and serves as the Katt Institute’s Director. A former British Diplomat, he is Adjunct Professor of Comparative Politics at the US Military Academy, West Point, Adjunct Fellow of the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy in Rhode Island and a regular visiting lecturer at the US Air Force Academy. Dr. Raymond’s book “Elite Souls,” the collective biography of five exceptional young West Point officers who have received multiple Silver Stars for valor, will be published by the US Naval Institute Press in 2021.
Dr. Raymond has received numerous academic awards including a Gilder Lehrman Fellowship in US History, an Andrew Mellon Visiting Faculty Fellowship at Yale University, and an Honorary Doctorate from Coe College, Iowa. He has also received awards for his diplomatic and government work. These include the Order of the British Empire awarded by Queen Elizabeth II and the Distinguished Service Medal (Civilian) awarded by the Chief of Staff of the United States Army.
To learn more, visit www.sunyulster.edu or call (845) 687-5262.
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September 11, 2020 – Stone Ridge, NY
