SEMC is excited to announce Brian K. Fair as the 2025 Annual Meeting Keynote Speaker. The keynote speech will incorporate the 2025 conference theme, Future Forward: Reach, Remember, Reclaim.

Professor Bryan K. Fair serves as interim president and CEO of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Professor Fair is a constitutional scholar and senior member of the law faculty at The University of Alabama School of Law. He has written extensively about inequality, equal protection, and racial caste in the United States.

Professor Fair joined the Alabama law faculty in 1991. He was named the Thomas E. Skinner Professor of Law in 2000. He has served as the faculty advisor to numerous student groups and has held several administrative posts at the law school and the university. Professor Fair has been named the law school’s Outstanding Faculty Member (selected by students) multiple times and received the university’s Outstanding Commitment to Teaching Award given each year by the National Alumni Association. He has also taught law courses at Seattle University, the University of Tennessee, the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and The Australian National University.

Professor Fair is the author of Notes of a Racial Caste Baby: Colorblindness and the End of Affirmative Action (NYU Press 1997) as well as many articles on inequality in the United States. His research agenda remains focused on equality theory under the Fourteenth Amendment.

He is a member of the American Law Institute and has served on ABA, AALS, and LSAC committees. He has served on numerous boards, including the Southern Poverty Law Center, Equal Justice Initiative, and Alabama Appleseed.