Keynote Speaker: Tom Gerety

“Exit Callicles: The Liberal Virtues and Human Rights.”

Tom Gerety became the executive director of the Brennan Center for Justice at the New York University School of Law in September 2003. He is also the Brennan Center for Justice professor at NYU. Gerety had been president of Amherst College (Mass.) for nine years.

The Center engages in three programs: criminal justice, democracy, and poverty. The Center’s mission is to develop and implement an innovative, nonpartisan agenda of scholarship, public education, and legal action that promotes equality and human dignity, while safeguarding fundamental freedoms.

Under his leadership, Amherst College reached its capital campaign goal of $200 million a year ahead of schedule, the endowment nearly tripled, and approximately 35 percent of the first-year class was composed of students of color. Gerety earned four academic degrees from Yale University: a bachelor’s, a master’s and a Ph.D., both in philosophy, and a J.D. Before coming to Amherst, he was president and professor of philosophy at Trinity College (Conn.).

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