CLINICAL PROFESSOR MEGAN RIESMEYER SERVES AS PANELIST AT PENNSYLVANIA LEGAL AID NETWORK’S 2021 CONFERENCE OF COUNTY BAR LEADERS PANEL DISCUSSION
February 2021 — Clinical Professor of Law Megan Riesmeyer participated in a panel discussion of Richard Rothstein’s book The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. This discussion was hosted by the Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network, the Pennsylvania Bar Association, and co-sponsored Penn State Dickinson Law.
Professor Riesmeyer’s remarks addressed the how the federal government participated in the creation and continuation of housing segregation in the United States, focusing specifically on the history explained throughout Rothstein’s book of the policies put in place in the early and middle part of the twentieth century. Professor Riesmeyer addressed the intentional nature of the segregation and racism we see today, and that such segregation, having been intentionally created, can also be intentionally dismantled.
Clinical Professor of Law Megan Riesmeyer is the director of Dickinson Law's Community Law Clinic, where she focuses litigation on family, disability, and poverty law. She chairs Dickinson Law's Diversity, Inclusion, and Educational Equity Committee, is a member of the Pennsylvania Joint State Commission on Domestic Relations Matters, and sits on the Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Ethics Committee. Professor Riesmeyer serves as a board member for the Community Justice Project (a statewide legal service agency) and as a board member for UPMC Carlisle Hospital