Law Symposium to Focus on Park Hill School Desegregation Case

The Denver University Law Review is hosting its annual symposium, “Forty Years Since Keyes v. School District No. 1: Equality of Educational Opportunity and the Legal Construction of Modern Metropolitan America.” The symposium will begin with a welcome reception hosted by the Tenth Judicial Circuit Historical Society at the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday, January 31, with panels to continue on Friday, February 1 – Saturday, February 2, at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law in Denver, Colorado.
Emanating from Denver, Colorado, and specifically the Park Hill Neighborhood, Keyes was the first school-desegregation case from “a major city outside of the South” to reach the United States Supreme Court. The symposium will accordingly work to re-center Keyes’s importance in American law by looking back at how the city, the metropolitan area, and the state’s public school systems have evolved over the past forty years as well as consider the challenges they face today and in the future. However, we plan on exploring Keyes not solely as an education case, but one that speaks to the particular challenges facing families, and their children as they move, settle, and go to schools in a fractured metropolitan America.
If you are interested in attending please register for the event at: alumni.du.edu/keyes-symposium. For more information, visit: denverlawreview.org/keyes-symposium or contact Abby Brown at abrown13@law.du.edu.