UCLA Symposium 2021: Structural Inequality & the Law
Please virtually join the UCLA Law Review on Friday, February 5th and Saturday, February 6th PST for our annual symposium titled, "Structural Inequality & the Law."
RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe3hB7Lx5EQMhDTywAvUux5uOTpt5t7tNgHc9535HAryVa9Bg/viewform to receive an invitation to join. ASL/English interpretation will be provided. Please e-mail lrsymposium@lawnet.ucla.edu for other access requests.
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Day 1: Friday, February 5, 2020
9:30-10:00 Opening Remarks and Welcome
- UCLA Law Review | Ryann Garcia, Symposium Editor and AK Shee, Editor-In-Chief
- Sunita Patel | Assistant Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the UCLA Veterans Legal Clinic
10:00-11:30 Opening Roundtable—Framing what grounds us-- structural inequality, social
movements, and the law
Moderated by Kim Crenshaw |Co-Founder and Executive Director of African American Policy Forum, Promise Institute Chair in Human Rights at UCLA School of Law
- Cheryl Harris | Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at UCLA School of Law
- Amna Akbar | Associate Professor of Law at the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
- Charles Lawrence | Centennial Professor and Professor of Law, Emeritus, at the University of Hawai‘i
- Talila "TL" Lewis | Co-founder and Volunteer Director of Helping Educate to Advance the Rights of Deaf Communities (HEARD)
12:00-1:30 Structural Inequality and Public Safety
Moderated by Devon Carbado | Honorable Harry Pregerson Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law
- Osagie K. Obasogie | Haas Distinguished Chair and Professor of Bioethics at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Joint Medical Program and School of Public Health
- Peyton Provenzano | First-year JD student and third-year PhD student in the Jurisprudence & Social Policy Program at Berkeley Law
- Sunita Patel | Assistant Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the UCLA Veterans Legal Clinic
- Khiara M. Bridges | Professor of Law at UC Berkeley School of Law
- Jeff Fagan | Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and Professor of Epidemiology at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University
1:30-1:45 Closing
Kim Crenshaw |Co-Founder and Executive Director of African American Policy Forum, Promise Institute Chair in Human Rights at UCLA School of Law
Day 2: Saturday, February 6th
10:15-10:30 Opening and Welcome
Asli Bâli | Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA School of Law
10:30-12:00 Social Movements and Institutional Change
Moderated by Scott Cummings | Robert Henigson Professor of Legal Ethics and Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law
- Reva Siegel | Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law at Yale Law School
- Purvi Shah | Founder, Movement Law Lab/Co-Founder Law For Black Lives
- Rebecca Tsosie | Regents Professor and Faculty Co-Chair, Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program at the James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona
- Shaun Ossei-Owusu | Presidential Assistant Professor of Law at University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School
12:30-2:00 Closing Conversation— Social Movements, Freedom Dreams, and the Law
Moderated by Sunita Patel | Assistant Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the UCLA Veterans Legal Clinic
- Robin D.G. Kelley | Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA
- Marbre Stahly-Butts |Member of the Leadership Team of the Movement For Black Lives Policy Table
- Jacinta Gonzalez | Senior Campaign Organizer with Mijente in Phoenix, AZ
- Dean Spade | Associate Professor at Seattle University School of Law
2:00-2:15 Closing
Sunita Patel | Assistant Professor of Law and Faculty Director of the UCLA Veterans Legal Clinic
Program Flyer:
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