Lecture: Reckoning with Reparations
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Eric Miller
Join Edinburgh Law School alumni, staff and current students next month to hear from distinguished University of Edinburgh alumni Professor Eric J. Miller (Loyola Law School) and Professor Lesley McAra CBE FRSE.
Reparations have become a major means of demanding redress, advanced by different groups identified by race, nationality, and even sexual orientation. There are a variety of different ways of understanding the nature of reparations, and the political movements that use reparations to advance their objective.
In this lecture, Professor Miller will recount how and why someone born and raised in Glasgow, and learning law at Edinburgh Law School, became one of the foremost reparations litigators in the United States, representing the Black victims of a 100 year-old race massacre before US state and federal courts and in the United States Congress.
Professor Miller will explain why reparations is such a powerful idea both globally but also nationally and locally, and why it resonates here in Scotland. The lecture will be followed by a response from and dialogue with Professor McAra.
The lecture will be held in the Playfair Library and followed by a reception.
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