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Celebrating its 50th anniversary, this year's Legal Issues in Museum Administration conference will both reflect on how museum lawyering has evolved and look to its future. Featured sessions include instruction on this year’s most important legal issues, including:
• The Art of Bias: Disrupting Cultures that Perpetuate Inequality
- The existence of implicit bias in the “elite” fields of law and the museum profession, and why the effects of bias are particularly pronounced in these fields The need to foster more diverse, inclusive, and equitable institutions in order to serve a changing nation, audience, and client base How the principles of equality underlying anti-discrimination law are in tension with principles of equity Strategies for addressing structural and individual biases in the legal and museum fields.
• Governance: How Good is Good Enough?
- Museums must not only protect their collections, they must also protect the public’s trust in the museum’s high ethical and professional standards. This panel focuses on the key pillars of good governance and the rules, policies, and practices that help ensure the integrity of the museum’s decision-making processes. Join us in taking a closer look at the museum board’s role in addressing a variety of critical areas including conflicts of interest, ethics, reputational harm, and diversity, equity, and inclusion