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Addressing Anti-Black Racism: Public Affairs

Public Affairs Programming

Our law school faculty actively develop ideas that contribute not only to academic discourse but also speak to matters of concern to the public at large. This section summarizes those programmatic contributions. 

Weekly Workshop Series

Since 2017, the law school has offered a weekly workshop series (known colloquially as the “Wednesday Workshop”) in which both internal and external faculty present a work-in-progress. The Associate Dean for Faculty Research and Development organizes these workshops. In the past 18 months, this Wednesday Workshop has featured the following speakers and talks that all relate to the Black experience:

  • Camille Gear Rich: Love Match or Compatible in Theory - Charting The Relationship Between Critical Race Theory and Queer Theory in Legal Scholarship, Wednesday, November 06, 2019.
  • Robert Bartlett: Consumer-Lending Discrimination in the FinTech Era, Wednesday, September 04, 2019.
  • L. Song Richardson: The Fallacy of the (Racial) Solidarity Presumption, Wednesday, June 19, 2019.
  • Trina Jones: DNA Based Race, Wednesday, April 17, 2019.
  • Joy Milligan: Preserving Plessy - Agencies and the Effective Constitution, Wednesday, February 27, 2019.
  • Judith Daar: The New Eugenics, Wednesday, February 06, 2019.
  • Allegra McLeod: Envisioning Abolition Democracy, Wednesday, January 09, 2019

Conferences, Events, and Symposia

Much of the intellectual life - including conferences, events and symposia - is driven by the faculty. A full accounting of faculty-organized events is available here, but the events of two centers deserve special mention: The Center for Law, Equality and Race (CLEAR) directed by Professor Kaaryn Gustafson and the Center for Biotechnology and Global Healthy Policy (CBGHP) directed by Professor Michele Goodwin. Here is a list of programming offered by those centers in the last few years:

CLEAR

  • Perspectives: The Second Founding (Workshop), Tuesday, February 18, 2020.
  •  Perspectives: The Limits of Whiteness (Workshop), Tuesday, January 28, 2020.
  •  SPONSORSHIP: Dr. Joseph L. White Lecture - Yusef Salaam (Lecture), Thursday, January 23, 2020.
  •  Perspectives: How to Be an Antiracist (Workshop), Tuesday, November 19, 2019.
  •  Co-sponsored w/ Social Sciences: Jennifer Eberhardt (Speaker), Friday, October 04, 2019.
  •  Perspectives: Biased (Workshop), Tuesday, September 24, 2019.
  •  Distinguished Critical Race Theory Lecture: Meera Deo (Speaker/Lecture: Single), Tuesday, February 26, 2019.
  •  Co-sponsored Event – Dealing with Racist Patients (Seminar), Wednesday, February 13, 2019.
  •  Perspectives: Jeanne Theoharis (Seminar), Monday, February 11, 2019.
  •  Perspectives: Algorithms of Oppression (Seminar), Friday, October 26, 2018.
  •  Perspectives: City of Inmates (Seminar), Tuesday, October 16, 2018.
  •  Race, Inequality, and Debt (Conference/Symposium), Friday, March 16, 2018.
  • Distinguished Critical Race Theory Lecture: Paul Butler (Speaker/Lecture: Single), Tuesday, February 13, 2018.
  • Perspectives: Paul Butler, Chokehold (Seminar), Wednesday, January 31, 2018.
  • Perspectives: Ta-Nehisi Coates, We Were Eight Years in Power (Seminar), Tuesday, January 16, 2018.
  • Anti-Blackness and the American Dream: Revisiting the 1992 L.A. Uprisings (Speaker/Lecture: Panel), Monday, October 30, 2017.
  • Distinguished Critical Race Theory Lecture: James Forman Jr. (Speaker/Lecture: Single), Wednesday, September 27, 2017.
  • Perspectives: Matthew Desmond, Evicted (Seminar), Wednesday, September 20, 2017.
  • Co-sponsored with CLEANR – What the Eyes Don't See: Mona Hanna-Attisha Book Talk (Speaker/Lecture: Single), Wednesday, January 23, 2019.

CBGHP

  • Confronting Maternal Mortality (Speaker/Lecture: Panel), Wednesday, March 11, 2020.
  •  Book Talk with Christopher Lehman: Slavery's Reach (Speaker/Lecture), Thursday, February 13, 2020.
  •  Film Screening: The Power to Heal (Film Screening), Thursday, April 4, 2019.
  •  Conversation with Ruha Benjamin on Technology & Race (Speaker/Lecture), Saturday, February 8, 2020.
  •  A New Jim Code: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life (Speaker/Lecture), Friday, February 7, 2020.
  •  Trauma, Policing & The 13th Amendment: The Long Arc to Freedom (Speaker/Lecture: Panel), Friday, February 22, 2019.
  •  Hate in a Period of Political Turmoil Colloquium: The Rise of Mainstream Hate (Speaker/Lecture: Panel), Sunday, April 29, 2018.
  •  Hate in a Period of Political Turmoil Colloquium: Inside the Hateful Mind (Speaker/Lecture: Panel), Thursday, October 19, 2017.
  •  Hate in a Period of Political Turmoil Colloquium: Hate Crimes (Speaker/Lecture: Panel), Thursday, September 21, 2017.
  • Hate in a Period of Political Turmoil Colloquium: Charlottesville (Speaker/Lecture: Panel), Friday, September 08, 2017.