Kenji Yoshino, deputy dean for intellectual life and professor of law at Yale Law School, will present a lecture at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School titled, "The End of Civil Rights? The Supreme Court’s Rejection of Identity Politics," at 4:30 p.m. April 5 in Dodds Auditorium, Robertson Hall, on the Princeton University campus.
The talk is free and open to the public.
A professor and dean of intellectual life at Yale Law School, Professor Yoshino’s work revolves around constitutional law, anti-discrimination law, civil rights, law and literature, and Japanese law and society.
He previously served as a law clerk for federal appellate judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. In 1998 he became an associate professor at Yale Law School and in 2003 he was given a full professorship.
He is the author of the book, "Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Human Right" in which he examines the human instinct to "cover" or downplay disfavored traits so as to blend into the mainstream and argues that "coerced conformity" can pose a hidden threat to civil rights.
The event is cosponsored with the Woodrow Wilson School and the University Center for Human Values.

