The Supreme Court of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin will hear real oral arguments in an actual case at noon Friday, March 3, during Northwestern University School of Law's Diversity Week. 357 E. Chicago Ave.
All events are free and open to the public.
The week is designed to address legal issues of racial, cultural, religious, sexual and socioeconomic diversity. Williams, judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, will deliver the judicial keynote. A former third grade teacher and assistant U.S. attorney, Williams, at age 35, became the youngest district court judge appointed in the Northern District of Illinois. In November 1999, she became the first African-American to serve on the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals. Kinoy, professor emeritus of Rutgers School of Law, will deliver the social justice keynote.