NYU Urban Seminar: Olatunde Johnson on Changes in Civil Rights Law

On April 5th, the Spring 2016 NYU Urban Seminar Series, co-hosted by the NYU Furman Center and Marron Institute, welcomed Olatunde Johnson, a professor of Law at Columbia University. She led a discussion based on her paper, "The Local Turn: Innovation and Diffusion in Civil Rights Law", which focuses on civil rights law and how it is changing due to new innovations in inclusionary regulation. 

The paper is a draft of a short piece which will be published in a volume on the future of civil rights. It is part of a larger project on innovation in civil rights and inclusionary regulation. This larger project explores the use of competitive grants, tax incentives, contests for labor agreements and licenses, requirements attached to land-use development, and scoring systems for public contracts that reward entities that promote inclusion.  

The NYU Urban Seminar series is co-hosted by the NYU Furman Center and the Marron Institute. The speaker series is focused on research with implications for urban policy, and features a variety of researchers from across the U.S. discussing their work. The NYU Urban Seminar is open to the public; registration is required.