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The College of Staten Island’s Legal Studies Institute (LSI) is housed within the Department of Political Science and Global Affairs and the Department of Philosophy.

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Fall 2015 Lectures


The CSI Legal Studies Institute will host three exciting public lectures this Fall.  


The Annual Lecture in Law, Philosophy, and Public Policy: 

Richard A. Epstein, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of Law, New York University Law School.  "The Classical Liberal Constitution and Religious Liberty." 
Wednesday, September 30th, 5 pm, Williamson Theater (Building 1P).
A reception will follow.  For more information, click here.








Studies in Race, Crime, and Public Policy:

Lecture I:  
Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library.  Professor Muhammad will discuss his book: The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America (Harvard University Press, 2010).  
Monday, October 19th, 5 pm, Williamson Theater (Building 1P).
A reception will follow.  For more information, click here.




Lecture II:
Naomi Murakawa, Associate Professor at the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University.  Professor Murakawa will discuss her book: The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America (Oxford University Press, 2014).
Wednesday, November 4th, 5 pm, Williamson Theater (Building 1P).
A reception will follow.
For more information, click here.

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