Columbia Law School professor and civil-rights lawyer Jack Greenberg joined us for a Live Talk on Tuesday, Jan. 16. Read the transcript.

Jack Greenberg has been at the forefront of many of the landmark civil-rights cases of the 20th century, including serving as co-counsel with Thurgood Marshall in the Brown v. Board of Education case in 1954. Greenberg suceeded Marshall as director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund, a position he held until in 1984, when he joined the faculty of Columbia Law School. He has continued to champion individual rights, and has participated in human-rights missions to the Soviet Union, Poland, South Africa, Sudan and elsewhere. Join Greenberg for a Live Talk on a career in civil rights and his work in school desgregation cases, on Tuesday, Jan. 16, at 1 p.m. ET. Submit questions now.