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SPECIAL GUEST 2020

Robert G. Schwemm

Ashland-Spears Distinguished Professor at the University of Kentucky College of Law

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Robert G. Schwemm is the Ashland-Spears Distinguished Professor at the University of Kentucky College of Law. He began his fair housing career as an attorney with the Leadership Council for Metropolitan Open Communities in Chicago in the 1970s, and has written and lectured extensively on fair housing law ever since.  His works include the major treatise in the field, Housing Discrimination: Law and Litigation, and many of his articles may be accessed at http://works.bepress.com/robert_schwemm.
Professor Schwemm has been plaintiffs' counsel in several landmark housing discrimination cases, including three in the U.S. Supreme Court: Meyer v. Holley; Gladstone Realtors v. Village of Bellwood; and Village of Arlington Heights v. Metropolitan Housing Development Corp. From 1986 to 1990, he was Vice-Chair of the Kentucky Commission on Human Rights, and in 1991, he served as a special attorney and scholar-in-residence with the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.