Webinar - Social Distance and Social Change with Albany Law School Professor Ray Brescia

What do the Abolitionists, leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, and West Virginia teachers all have in common?  They succeeded in bringing about important social change in times of crisis.  In his new book, The Future of Change: How Technology Shapes Social Revolutions (Cornell University Press, 2020), Ray Brescia examines how social movements since the nation's founding have used advances in communications technologies to bring about social change, especially in times of crisis.  His talk will explore the ways that the lessons from the past can be harnessed to help us make sense of the present, bring about social change in this moment, and help consider what such change might look like in the future.

Ray Brescia is the Harold R. Tyler Chair in Law & Technology at Albany Law School.  He is the former Associate Director of the Urban Justice Center in New York City and was a Skadden Fellow at the Legal Aid Society of New York.  After graduating from Yale Law School, he was a law clerk to the Hon. Constance Baker Motley of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Members can receive 30% off of The Future of Change with the code: 09FLYER. 

5:30pm webinar, gratis. Advance registration required. Registrants will receive the link to view the lecture in the confirmation email.