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16 Jul 2012, 4:15 pm by jleaming@acslaw.org
” University of Maryland School of Law professor Sherrilyn Ifill in an opinion piece for CNN said the governors are carrying on a long tradition of not doing a terribly good job of governing. [read post]
LDF President Sherrilyn Ifill stated: The majority of Black people in this country still live in the South and continuously face impediments to voting, education equity, and racial and economic justice. [read post]
12 Jul 2018, 3:38 pm by NCC Staff
Sherrilyn Ifill, the seventh President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and Trustee of the National Constitution Center, provides introductory remarks. [read post]
9 Jun 2011, 9:45 am by Lovechilde
” Following an ACS event exploring the need to diversify the federal bench, University of Maryland School of Law Professor Sherrilyn Ifill told ACSblog that judicial decision-making is improved by judges “who represent and are reflective of the larger society. [read post]
29 Sep 2007, 7:00 am
Fernandes- Senior Policy Analyst and Special Counsel, Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Vicki Schultz- Professor, Yale Law School Mark Tushnet- Professor, Harvard Law School Sherrilyn Ifill- Professor, University of Maryland School of Law (moderator) 4:00 - 4:15 p.m. [read post]
In a statement from the American Civil Liberties Union, Sherrilyn Ifill of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund said, “The provisions of the new law and the manner in which it was enacted reflect a thorough disregard for the sanctity of protecting the right to vote and a headlong and determined zeal to diminish Black political power in Georgia. [read post]
5 Sep 2012, 4:22 pm by jleaming@acslaw.org
  University of Maryland law school professor Sherrilyn A. [read post]
18 May 2015, 12:59 pm by Harold O'Grady
., District Attorney of New York County and Joseph Plumeri, Vice Chairman of the First Data Board of Directors New York University School of Law — Sherrilyn Ifill, President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Pace University School of Law — U.S. [read post]
19 Apr 2018, 3:30 am by Eric B. Meyer
Johnson’s follow-up video and the company’s announcement, Starbucks identified a who’s who of thought leaders upon whom the company would rely to develop the training: The curriculum will be developed with guidance from several national and local experts confronting racial bias, including Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative; Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and… [read post]
19 Apr 2018, 3:30 am by Eric B. Meyer
Johnson’s follow-up video and the company’s announcement, Starbucks identified a who’s who of thought leaders upon whom the company would rely to develop the training: The curriculum will be developed with guidance from several national and local experts confronting racial bias, including Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative; Sherrilyn Ifill, president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and… [read post]
4 Apr 2023, 4:09 am by SHG
Beyond the unseemly, highly inappropriate nature of this ban, that federal judges can legally announce a categorical ban on employees from accredited law schools. https://t.co/MTL9HjJ0Vn — Sherrilyn Ifill (@SIfill_) April 2, 2023 Are Judges Ho and Branch right to use their offices for this purpose? [read post]
7 Feb 2025, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
“Pamela Brandwein of the University of Michigan, Sherrilyn Ifill of Howard University School of Law, and Ilan Wurman of the University of Minnesota Law School will explore the 14th Amendment and the history of Reconstruction. [read post]
16 Jul 2017, 12:00 am by Smita Ghosh
Bryan Stevenson also engages with the history of lynching in A Presumption of Guilt, which references Sherrilyn Ifill’s On the Courthouse Lawn and Devin Allen’s A Beautiful Ghetto.In the Nation, Elizabeth Bruenig reviews several books on the reformation (Martin Luther: Renegade and Prophet by Lyndal Roper; The Protestants: The Faith That Made the Modern World by Alec Ryrie; Luther and His Progeny: 500 Years of Protestantism and Its Consequences for Church,… [read post]
25 Sep 2024, 9:30 pm by ernst
“I am grateful to both Sherrilyn Ifill and her successor Janai Nelson as president and director-counsel of the Legal Defense Fund for supporting our organizations’ shared vision of providing greater access to resources documenting the organization’s transformative work and storied history. [read post]
20 Oct 2023, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
  For the livestream option for virtual attendees, this.ICYMI: Legal Historian Tomiko Brown-Nagin and Sherrilyn Ifill discussed the immediate aftermath of the Students for Fair Admissions’ suit against Harvard (Harvard Crimson). [read post]
13 Feb 2021, 3:30 am by SHG
Sherrilyn Ifill, director of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, raises a question of what to do about it. [read post]
3 Feb 2023, 7:06 am by Gene Takagi
A Response to Conor Friedersdorf: When White America Offloads its Failures on to Civil Rights Movements (Sherrilyn Ifill, Sherrilyn’s Newsletter) How Native Americans Will Shape the Future of Water in the West (Rachel Monroe, New Yorker) If there are any attorneys or law students who identify as Black, Native Americans, or Pacific Islanders who are interested in nonprofit corporate and tax-exemption laws and who’d like to pursue this area of practice,… [read post]
19 Mar 2010, 7:17 am by Anna Christensen
In a post at Concurring Opinions, Sherrilyn Ifill examines the implications of January’s Citizens United decision for judicial campaigns, predicting that the lifting of restrictions on corporate campaign spending will provoke a “virtual run on judicial elections. [read post]
3 Jun 2010, 8:42 am by Erin Miller
  Sherrilyn Ifill at The Root surmises that Justice Sotomayor, the author of the dissent, drew on her “real-world understanding of the pressures of interrogation in custody and the incentives of police. [read post]
30 Aug 2016, 11:21 am by Amy Howe
The same may be true, writes Sherrilyn Ifill of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, for affirmative action if Scalia is replaced by a conservative Justice. [read post]