Welcome Reception:
Friday, March 28, 2025
5 - 7 p.m.
2nd Floor Gallery, Sullivan Hall

Panels & Keynote:
Saturday, March 29, 2025
8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Room 110, Sullivan Hall
Reception: 5 - 6 p.m., 2nd Floor Gallery, Sullivan Hall

Please note: this event has moved from room C6 to room 110 on Saturday, the 29th.

In March, scholars, students, and the community are invited to gather at Seattle University School of Law to attend the 2025 Epoch Symposium, "Our Not-So-Colorblind Constitution." An epoch is a period of time in history, typically one marked by notable events or particular characteristics, the beginning of a distinctive period in the history of someone or something. Our symposium was born out of the 2020 protests in response to the murders of Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and George Floyd, which caused a belated reckoning in our collective consciousness around anti-Black and anti-Brown racism. Our symposium aims to provide a space and a platform for new ideas and discussions to examine legal issues related to how the Constitution shapes and affects Black and Brown lives. We expect the symposium will provide the historical context for the current moment, highlight race equity efforts across the legal field, and reimagine a future where the legal landscape is centered around race equity and anti-racism. This is an opportunity for our community to bring together preeminent scholars to draw attention to issues that hit at the core of our national identity and explore dire, urgent issues in Constitutional law.