NYU School of Law and the Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law invite you to the 31st Annual Derrick Bell Lecture on Race in American Society. Dorothy Roberts, Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law & Sociology, and Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights, at the University of Pennsylvania, will present her lecture, “Race, Eugenics, and American Authoritarianism" on Thursday, November 12, 2026 at 6:00 p.m. The lecture will be held in Vanderbilt Hall, located at 40 Washington Square South. 

This event has been approved to offer 1 New York State CLE credit in the category of Areas of Professional Practice. 

A reception will immediately follow the lecture.

We look forward to your joining us.

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