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Shep Melnick, on “Why School Desegregation Still Matters.” R. Shep Melnick (‘73) is the Thomas P. O’Neill, Jr. Professor of American Politics at Boston College and co-chair of the Harvard Program on Constitutional Government. He has written many articles on courts, agencies, and public policy, and his most recent book is The Transformation of Title IX: Regulating Gender Equality in Education (Brookings, 2018). He is currently completing a book on education and the civil rights state. He received his BA and PhD from Harvard, and taught at Harvard and Brandeis before moving to Boston College.
Presented by the Program on Constitutional Government on March 4, 2022.
Shep Melnick, on “Why School Desegregation Still Matters.” R. Shep Melnick (‘73) is the Thomas P. O’Neill, Jr. Professor of American Politics at Boston College and co-chair of the Harvard Program on Constitutional Government. He has written many articles on courts, agencies, and public policy, and his most recent book is The Transformation of Title IX: Regulating Gender Equality in Education (Brookings, 2018). He is currently completing a book on education and the civil rights state. He received his BA and PhD from Harvard, and taught at Harvard and Brandeis before moving to Boston College.
Presented by the Program on Constitutional Government on March 4, 2022.
