Lecture: Reckoning with Reparations

Professor Eric J. Miller

Fri 16 September 2022
17:30 - 20:00

Join Edinburgh Law School alumni, staff and current students to hear from distinguished University of Edinburgh alumni Professor Eric J. Miller, Leo J. O’Brien fellow at Loyola Law School (LLB, 1991) and Professor Lesley McAra, chair of penology at Edinburgh Law School (MA Politics, 1981). The lecture will be chaired by Jacquelyn MacLennan (LLB, 1983).

Reparations has 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 Prof Lesley McAra.

The event will be held in the Playfair Library and followed by a reception.

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