Symposium 2021

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.

*UPDATE*

If the webinar has reached capacity, please use the following links to view the livestream of the event via the African American Policy Forum YouTube:
DAY 1-- Livestream: https://youtu.be/gYyCCi9gKm_E
DAY 2-- Livestream: https://youtu.be/jj95DQZ-MpQ

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

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