Prof. Kappelhoff to Deliver Keynote Address at Hate Crimes Conference

Clinical Professor Mark Kappelhoff will deliver the keynote address at the Anti-Defamation League's Centennial Hate Crimes Conference on September 17, 2013, at the Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas. Kappelhoff's address, entitled "Prosecution and Prevention of Hate Crimes," will discuss his efforts to secure passage of the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act while he was a senior government official in the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice.