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How would you handle this situation: You learn that one of your prize students, a high school class valedictorian on a full-scholarship, has been arrested.
His offense? He’s an undocumented student, who now faces deportation.
The six regional People of Color scholarship conferences—the Mid-Atlantic, Midwestern, Northeast, Southeast, Southwest, and Western—will come together for the first time since 2004 at the THIRD NATIONAL PEOPLE OF COLOR LEGAL SCHOLARSHIP CONFERENCE on September 9-12, 2010, at Seton Hall University School of Law to explore the meaning of a “post-racial” society and its relevance to legal scholarship and teaching. Drawing on legal scholarship that examines historical and current racial contexts, the conference will address a broad range of critical national and global issues that disproportionately impact communities of color and other underrepresented groups.
Join Natsu Saito in signing her book, Meeting the Enemy: American Exceptionalism and International Law (Critical America).
On September 23-25th 2010, the LGBT Studies Program & Minor at Syracuse University will be hosting a Transnationalizing LGBT Studies Conference/Workshop in Syracuse, New York. This will be a small, single-track conference/workshop so that all participants will be in attendance for the keynote addresses, panels, and workshops. We will take up the question of what it means theoretically, politically, and pedagogically to 'transnationalize' LGBT Studies.
the crit, a critical legal studies journal, is hosting its first annual Critical Legal Studies conference. The conference will take place at University of Idaho College of Law.
Save The Date: A celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Clinical Theory Workshop, to be held all day Friday, October 1, 2010, and on the morning of Saturday, October 2, 2010, at New York Law School.
It's theme will be:
The Clinical Law Review will hold its third Clinical Writers' Workshop on the afternoon of Saturday, October 2, and the morning of Sunday, October 3, at NYU Law School. The Workshop will follow a celebration at New York Law School of the 25th Anniversary of the Clinical Theory Workshop on Friday, October 1, and the morning of Saturday, October 2.
Advise & Dissent, a documentary film that takes viewers behind the scenes of recent Supreme Court confirmation battles, as key senators wrestle with their Constitutional duty while under pressure from all sides. The film reveals the little-known activists who are re-shaping American politics.
Bring it to your law school by contacting Tracie Holder, First Monday Launch, 212 799 5078.
The Color of the Economic Crisis:
Exploring the Downturn from the Bottom Up
University of Denver Sturm College of Law, Denver, Colorado, October 7-10, 2010
We are pleased to invite you to LatCrit XV, the Fifteenth Annual LatCrit (Latina and Latino Critical Legal Theory) Conference, which begins in Denver, Colorado at Noon on Friday, October 8 and concludes Saturday night, October 9, 2010. This year’s theme is “The Color of the Economic Crisis: Exploring the Downturn from the Bottom Up”. Look for the Call for Papers in the next month or so, and plan to use the handy online process to submit your LCXV panel or paper proposal soon!
JUNIOR FACULTY DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP
As usual, we also will hold our Eighth Annual Junior Faculty Development Workshop, sponsored jointly with the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT), beginning at 9:00 a.m. Thursday, October 7 (the day before the conference program kicks off).
The Eighth Annual Junior Faculty Development Workshop (FDW) will be held on October 7-8, 2010 in Denver, Colorado, immediately preceding the Fifteenth Annual LatCrit Conference (LatCrit XV). The FDW is a one-day event conducted by the Latina & Latino Critical Legal Theory, Inc. (LatCrit) in association with the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) to familiarize progressive junior faculty with LatCrit and Salt principles and values and support them in the teaching, scholarship, and service aspects of professional success. In addition, the FDW seeks to foster scholarship in progressive and critical outsider jurisprudence, including LatCrit theory, among new faculty, junior faculty, students, and practitioners. Finally, the FDW aims to cultivate a community scholars interested in the continuation of this and similar projects over the years.
SALT Membership Annual Meeting
The SALT Board of Governors will meet on Sunday, October 10, 2010, from 8:00-10:45 am at the conclusion of the LatCrit XV Conference.
A Symposium Honoring Clare Dalton’s Contributions as a Scholar and Advocate
Indiana University will host a two-day, interdisciplinary symposium called “Queering the Countryside: New Directions in Rural Queer Studies.”
The Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development is the official publication of the Ronald H. Brown Center for Civil Rights and Economic Development at St. John’s School of Law, the Law School’s oldest academic center. For 17 years, the Journal has held important academic symposia on a wide array of legally significant social justice issues, such as environmental racism, domestic violence, the impact of the economic downturn on the New York City economy and the issues of race and gender in the 2008 presidential election.
The American Society of International Law (ASIL) International Economic Law Interest Group, will hold its next biennial conference at University of Minnesota Law School. The conference is called: International Economic Law in a time of Change: Reassessing Legal Theory, Doctrine, Methodology and Policy Prescriptions.
SALT Teaching Conference, December 10-11, 2010, to be held at two locations in Honolulu, Hawai'i: Waikiki Prince Hotel on Friday and University of Hawai'i on Saturday.
The conference's theme, Teaching in a Transformative Era: The Law School of the Future, will examine the most pressing challenges law schools face in the 21st century.
Watch her for a preliminary program. Registration for SALT members is $195 and $325 for non-SALT members. Renew your membership now to get the benefit of the preferential fee!
This year's Cover Workshop at the AALS Annual Meeting will address Civil Gideon. It is being hosted at Golden Gate University School of Law, and will feature experts and activists.
This year's SALT Annual Dinner will be at the Delancey Street Foundation on the Embarcadero in San Francisco. Space is limited!
Sponsorships are available to secure your school's table at the Annual Dinner. Contact Hazel Weiser for details at 631 650 2310, or via email.
Annual meeting of the SALT Board of Governor's with new Board Members will take place on January 8, 2010.
SALT New Teachers’ Pipeline presentation at the National Black Law Students Association Annual Meeting in Houston, TX
This year's Trina Grillo Social Justice Retreat is being organized by the University of San Francisco School of Law, which will be hosting the event on its campus.
To learn more about the history of the Trina Grillo Social Justice Retreat, click here.
Watch this space for an upcoming announcement of the theme of this year's program.
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