Speaker at SULC to discuss African American’s experience in Civil War

The second lecture of the Sixth Annual Speakers Series sponsored by the Southern University Law Center will feature a law professor’s reflections on the African-American experience in the Civil War Friday, November 14 at noon.
Stanford Law Professor William B. Gould, IV will present “Reflections on the African-American Civil War Experience: The Life and Times of William B. Gould” in A.A. Lenoir Hall Room 129.
Gould, the William M. Ramsey Distinguished Professor at Willamette College of Law and the Charles A. Beardsley Professor of Law Emeritus at Stanford Law School, has researched and published widely on the African-American experience in the Civil War. Among Gould’s selected publications are Diary of a Contraband: The Civil War Passage of a Black Sailor and the video, “Civil War Blacks in Navy Blue: Diary of a Contraband.”
A member of the Stanford law faculty since 1972, Gould teaches labor law, comparative labor law, employment discrimination law and the International Labor Studies Program.
Prior to his teaching career, he obtained a broad background in the practice of labor law as assistant general counsel of the United Automobile Workers, staff attorney for the National Labor Relations Board and in private practice in New York City.