
Heard at Hopkins Commencement: Conversations about hope, ethics, law, moral values in higher educati
Several months ago, I wrote a blog post about Harvard Law Professor Charles Ogletree who, in the face of an Alzheimer’s diagnosis, has lent his voice to raise awareness about the illness and the need for a cure. I met Charles Ogletree in the fall of 1978 on the steps of the Supreme Court. We were both students: him, a 2L student at Harvard law, and me, an undergrad at Johns Hopkins. We were at the Supreme Court hoping to hear oral arguments in the landmark Bakke case. As sco