ClassCrits XIV--Program
Demanding Justice in the Face of Retrenchment: Finding Common Ground and Building Coalition Across Borders
Co-Sponsored by ClassCrits, Inc., Southwestern Law School, The Law &
Political Economy Collective, The Southwestern Law Review,
and the Southwestern Journal of International Law
at
Southwestern School of Law
February 9-10, 2024
Friday, February 9, 2024
8:00 a.m.-8:45a.m. Bullocks Wilshire 3rd Floor Foyer: Registration and Breakfast
8:45 a.m.-9:00a.m. BW 390: Welcome and Opening Remarks
Darby Dickerson, President and Dean, Southwestern Law School
Lucy Jewel, ClassCrits President, Professor of Law & Director of Legal Writing,
University of Tennessee College of Law
9:00 a.m.-10:15 a.m. Opening Plenary: Reproductive Justice & Resistance
Moderator: Nazenin Eghbal
Kathryn Abrams, Herma Hill Kay Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Berkeley
Athena Mutua, Floyd H. & Hilda L. Hurst Faculty Scholar, University at Buffalo, School of Law
Denise Cespedes, Legal Research & Writing Instructor at Florida A&M University, College of L
Law
Anibal Rosario-Lebron, Associate Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School S.I. Newhouse Center
for Law and Justice
10:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m. Break (Refreshments available in BW 3rd Floor Foyer)
10:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Concurrent Panels
Concurrent Panel 1A: Race, Work, and Twenty-First Century Organizing
Moderator: Laura Price
Shirley Lin, Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
Veena Dubal, Professor of Law, UCI
Saul Sarabia, Academic Coordinator at UCLA’s Institute for Research on Labor and Employment, Independent Consultant at Solidarity Consulting, Inc.
Angela P. Harris, Professor Emerita, UC Davis School of Law
Concurrent Panel 1B: Sweetening the Struggle: Justice Cream (Ice Cream) As A Case Study on Learning Through Practice
Moderator: Kari Van Sinden
British Reynolds, Liberatory Educator at Justice Cream
Claudia Espinel, PhD Student Criminology, Law, and Justice, University of Illinois, Chicago, Core Team, Justice Cream
Maria Espinel, Justice Cream
Hialy Gutierrez, Founder and Solidarity Systems Imagineer at Justice Cream
Sarah Malone, PhD Student, Criminology, Law, and Justice, University of Illinois, Chicago
Concurrent Panel 1C: Ending the War on Drugs & Stopping Fascism
Moderator: Fernando Samayoa
Steven Ramirez, Abner J. Mikva Professor of Law & Director, Business Law Center, Loyola
University Chicago, Author
Sheldon Lyke, Associate Professor, Loyola University Chicago School of Law, Reader
Andre Cummings, Associate Dean for Faculty Development Charles Baum Distinguished
Professor of Law, University of Arkansas, Author
Audra Savage, Assistant Professor of Law, Wake Forest Law, Reader
Concurrent Panel 1D: Law--Dual Consciousness
Moderator: Piper Hinson
Camilo Romero, Professor of Law, Santa Ana College and Co-Founder of ReGeneracion
Brendan Conner, Assistant Professor of Law, Delaware Law School
Navi Kaur, Assistant Professor, San Francisco State University
Jenny Logan, Attorney and PhD candidate in Law at Birkbeck College, University of London
Catherine Carpenter, The Honorable Arleigh M. Woods and William T. Woods Chair and
Professor of Law, Southwestern Law School
12:15 p.m.-1:30 p.m. Louis ___ Room (BW 2nd Floor): Lunch and Keynote Speaker Professor Veena Dubal
1:45 p.m.-3:00 p.m. Concurrent Panels
Concurrent Panel 2A: Immigration—Identity, Violence, & Mobility
Moderator:
Daniel Morales, Associate Professor of Law; Dwight Olds Chair, University of Houston Law
Center
Stephen Lee, Professor of Law, UCI School of Law
Isabel Medina, Ferris Family Distinguished Professor of Law, Loyola University New Orleans
College of Law
MariaTeresa "Maritere" Gomez, Northern Illinois University College of Law
Concurrent Panel 2B: On Law Breaking, Defiance, and Non-Compliance
Moderator:
Amna A. Akbar, Charles W. Ebersold and Florence Whitcomb Ebersold Professorship, Ohio
State University
Jennifer Lee, Associate Professor, Temple University
Marbre Stahly-Butts, Soros Justice Fellow at Center for Popular Democracy, Law Professor, CUNY Law School
Ryan Doerfler, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Veryl Pow, Associate Professor of Law, Golden Gate University School of Law
Concurrent Panel 2C: Conservative Constitutionalism
Moderator:
Luke Boso, Professor of Law, Southwestern Law School
Thomas Kleven, Professor of Law, Texas Southern University
Michael Smith, Assistant Professor of Law, St. Mary’s School of Law
Jeremiah Ho, Associate Professor of Law, Saint Louis University School of Law
3:00 pm.-3:15 p.m. Break (Refreshments BW 3rd Floor Foyer)
3:15 p.m.-4:30 p.m. Concurrent Panels
Concurrent Panel 3A: Demanding Justice Via Private Law: A Space for Coalitions
Moderator:
Martha Chamallas, Robert J. Lynn Chair in Law, Ohio State University
Gali Racabi, Associate Member of the Law Faculty & Assistant Professor, School of Industrial
& Labor Relations, Cornell School of Law
Lua Yuille, Professor of Law and Business; Associate Dean for Research and Interdisciplinary
Education, Northeastern University School of Law
Hila Keren, Associate Dean for Research, Paul E. Treusch Professor of Law, Southwestern Law
School
Concurrent Panel 3B: Youth Power Not Guns: Legal Empowerment to Reimagine the Constitution with Youth Movements
Moderator:
Zenande Booi, Executive Director, Fordham Law School Center for Race and Justice
Maryam Salmanova, Co-Executive Director, Peer Defense Project, Law Student, Brooklyn Law
School
Addys Castillo, Executive Director Citywide Youth Coalition, Law Student, University of
Connecticut School of Law
Concurrent Panel 3C: Barbara Kingsolver’s Demon, Copperhead, a ClassCrits Law & Literature Discussion
Moderator:
Lucy Jewel, Director of Legal Writing and Professor of Law, University of Tennessee College of
Law
Wendy Bach, Professor of Law, University of Tennessee College of Law
Telia Williams, Assistant Professor of Law, Northern Illinois University College of Law
Lisa Pruitt, Professor of Law, University of California Davis School of Law
Concurrent Panel 3D: Environmental Justice
Moderator: Graham Outerbridge
Vincent Benlloch, 3L Law Student, UCLA School of Law
Rohan Gray, Assistant Professor of Law, Willamette University College of Law
Naadiya Hutchinson, Just Transition Lawyering Network Manager at Taproot Earth
Carmen Gonzalez, Morris I. Leibman Professor of Law, Loyola University Chicago School
of Law
4:30 p.m.-4:45 p.m. Break (Refreshments BW 3rd Floor Foyer)
4:45 p.m.-6:00 p.m. Concurrent Panels
Concurrent Panel 4A: Food Justice
Moderator:
Ernesto Hernandez-Lopez, Professor of Law, Chapman University, Fowler School of Law
Kim Vu-Dinh, Associate Professor of Law & Director of the Economic Inclusion Clinic,
Mitchell Hamline School of Law
Andrea Freeman, Professor of Law, Southwestern Law School
Marley Weiss, Professor of Law, University of Maryland Carey School of Law
Concurrent Panel 4B: In Real Life
Moderator:
Heidi Gilchrist, Professor of Legal Writing and Co-Director of Legal Research and Writing,
Brooklyn Law School
McKay Cunningham, Director, On-Campus Experiential Learning, College of Idaho
Latonia Haney Keith, Vice President of High Impact Practices at The College of Idaho
Ron Hochbaum, Director, Homeless Advocacy Clinic, Assistant Clinical Professor of Law,
University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law, Individual Presentation
Phoenix Johnson & Julia Ricciardi, Tlingit & Haida Nation; Law Student, Willamette University
College of Law
Concurrent Panel 4C: Reexamining Socially Constructed Status Categories: “Children” and the “Disabled”
Moderator:
Diane Kemker, Professor of Law, Southern University Law Center
Sarah Medina Camiscoli, Assistant Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School Newark & Peer
Defense Project
Sean Scott, President and Dean of California Western School of Law
Kia Turner, Knight-Hennessy Scholar, Stanford University
Concurrent Panel 4D: Economic Regulation, Enforcement & the Administrative State
Moderator: Aria Beizai
Darren Bush, Professor of Law, University of Houston Law Center
Thomas Joo, Professor of Law, University of California Davis
Jay Varellas, Ph.D. student at the University of California, Berkeley
6:15 p.m.-8:00 p.m. The Louis Room (BW 2nd Floor) Dinner + Poetry Reading with Alycia D. Jenkins
8:15 p.m. – 10:00 p.m. Film Screening: Finding the Money (Westmoreland 329)
Saturday, February 10, 2024
8:00 a.m.-9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast and Works in Progress Sessions
Mentoring newer scholars is an important part of ClassCrits conferences. We encourage everyone to participate in discussing one of the individual presentations by emerging scholars over breakfast.
David Seaton, Translating Leftist Legal Theory Into Action, graduate student at University of Missouri; Commentator: Lua Yuille, Professor, Northeastern University School of Law
Greg Baltz, Tenant Union Law, Assistant Professor, Rutgers Law School Newark; Commentator: Thomas Kleven, Professor, Thurgood Marshall School of Law
Ximena Benavides, The Shadows of Sun Shine Laws, Lecturer & Postdoctoral Fellow, Yale Law School; Commentator: Chumlin Leonhard, Professor, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
Jenna Prochaska, From Participation to Engagement, Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Chicago Law School; Commentator: Jenny Logan, Associate Faculty Member, Brooklyn Institute for Social Research
Zsea Bowmani, Queering Climate Justice, Assistant Professor, University of Toledo College of Law; Commentator: Jeremiah Ho, Associate Professor, Saint Louis University School of Law
Jacqueline Stein, Moving Beyond Isolation – A Reconceptualization of Union Rights for Prison Workers, PhD candidate, Martin-Luther-University, Halle, Germany; Commentator: Angela Cornell, Professor, Cornell Law School
Ally Potamianos, Regulation of Street Food Vendors in New York City: An Administrative Law Problem, LLM candidate, New York University School of Law; Commentator: Kim Vu-Dinh, Associate Professor, Mitchell Hamline School of Law
Amanda Stephens, Does Ratifying CEDAW Make a Difference in Women’s Lives? Lessons From India’s Ratification of CEDAW, Assistant Professor. St. Mary’s University School of Law;
Commentator: Saru Matambanadzo, Associate Professor, Tulane University School of Liberal Arts
Kristina Kersey, Don’t Forget About Me: Demanding Transfer Schemes Adhere to Prevailing Notions of Science, Assistant Professor, University of Tennessee College of Law; Commentator: Michael Smith, Assistant Professor, St. Mary’s University School of Law
Fanna Gamal, The Racial Proxy Paradox, Assistant Professor, UCLA School of Law; Commentator: Angela Harris, Professor Emerita, UC Davis School of Law
9:15 a.m.-10:30 a.m. Concurrent Panels
Concurrent Panel 5A: Tax Law and Policy and Its Implications
Moderator:
Ajay Mehrotra, William G. and Virginia K. Karnes Research Professor of Law,
Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Camille Walsh, Associate Professor, University of Washington Bothell
Francine Lipman, Professor of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Concurrent Panel 5B: Power Shifting
Moderator:
Ximena Benavides, Resident Fellow, Yale Law School
Ndjuoh MehChu, Associate Professor of Law, Seton Hall University School of Law
Gigi Tewari, Assistant Professor of Law, Widener University Delaware Law School
Concurrent Panel 5C: Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights (Author meets Reader)
Moderator: Hila Keren, Associate Dean of Research and Professor of Law, Southwestern
Law School
Dylan Penningroth (author), Professor of Law and History, University of California, Berkeley
LaToya Baldwin-Clark, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law (Reader)
Fanna Gamal, Assistant Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law (Reader)
Ariela Gross, Distinguished Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law (Reader)
Concurrent Panel 5D: Living Up to Our Commitments
Moderator:
Aileen Doherty, Adjunct Economics Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Daniel Evans, Assistant Professor of Law, Seattle University School of Law
Andrew Mamo, Associate Professor of Law, University of Cincinnati College of Law
Chunlin Leonhard, Professor of Law, Loyola University New Orleans College of Law
10:30 a.m.-10:45 a.m. Break (Refreshments available in BW 3rd Floor Foyer)
10:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Emerging Scholars Workshop (closed session)
Moderator: Angela Harris
Scholar: Seema Patel
Commentators
- Professor Hiba Hafiz, Associate Professor of Law, Boston College Law School
- Professor Brishen Rogers, Professor of Law, Georgetown Law
- Professor Noah Zatz, Professor of Law and Labor Studies, University of California, Los Angeles School of Law
10:45 a.m.-12:00 p.m. Concurrent Panels
Concurrent Panel 6A: Revisiting Race & Class
Moderator:
Neil Gotanda, Professor of Law, Emeritus, Westcliff University, Western State College of Law
Swethaa Ballakrishnen, Professor of Law & Associate Dean for Faculty Research and
Development, University of California Irvine, School of Law
Reshard Kolabhai, Yale Law School, LL.M. Student
Concurrent Panel 6B: The History and Future of the Labor Union Movement
Moderator:
Michael Green, Professor of Law, Texas A&M University School of Law
Shirley Lin, Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
Sameer Ashar, Clinical Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine School of Law
Angela Cornell, Clinical Professor of Law, Cornell Law School
Christopher Cameron, Professor of Law, Southwestern Law School
Concurrent Panel 6C: Property and Housing
Moderator: Anayensy De La Cruz-Zepeda
John Whitlow, Associate Professor of Law, The City University of New York School of Law
Ana Rivera, Associate Clinical Professor and Director, Northeastern University School of Law
Zachary Hale, CUNY John Jay Economics Graduate Program
Julie Gilfoff , Associate Professor, Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
Concurrent Panel 6D: Legal History & Race
Moderator:
Lucy Jewel, Professor of Law, University of Tennessee College of Law
Malachi Crawford, Associate Professor, Prairie View A&M University
Martha Mahoney, Professor of Law and Dean’s Distinguished Scholar, University of Miami
School of Law
Alex Pearl, Professor of Law, University of Oklahoma College of Law
12:15 p.m.-1:45 p.m. The Louis Room (BW 2nd Floor): Lunch and Plenary Panel: UNITE HERE
Moderator: Thomas Kleven
Kurt Petersen, Co-President
Jeremy Blasi, General Counsel
Robbie Robertson, Chief Shop Steward, Cook, Beverly Hilton
Alice Stanford, Chief Shop Steward, Banquet Server, JW Marriott LA Live. Local 11 Executive
Board Member.
Vicky Beza, Chief Shop Steward, Front Desk Agent, Westin Bonaventure. Local 11 Organizer.
Liliana Hernandez, Chief Shop Steward. Room Attendant, Fairmont Miramar.
2:00 p.m.-3:15 p.m. Concurrent Panels
Concurrent Panel 7A: Coalition Building & Movement Lawyering
Moderator:
Andrew Friedman, Director, Initiative for Community Power, Center on Race, Inequality and
the Law and Adjunct Professor of Clinical Law, New York University School of Law
Donna Coker, Professor of Law, University of Miami School of Law
Chad Sinkler, Beyond the Bars Attorney (former)
Hedwig Lieback, Ph.D. Candidate, Columbia University
Andrew Milne, Poverty Lawyer for Seniors, Maine
Concurrent Panel 7C: Wealth & Power
Moderator: Roksana Czech
Jeena Shah, Associate Professor of Law, The City University of New York School of Law
Meena Jagannath, Director of Global Programs, Movement Law Lab
Timothy Kuhner, Associate Professor of Law, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Danni Hart, Professor of Law, Southwestern Law School
Concurrent Panel 7D: Inverting Immigration Exceptionalism
Moderator:
Carrie Rosenbaum, Assistant Professor of Law, Chapman University School of Law
Pooja Dadhania, Professor of Law, California Western School of Law
Susan Bibler Coutin, Professor of Criminology, Law and Society and Anthropology, University
of California, Irvine
3:15 pm.-3:30 p.m. Break (Refreshments BW 3rd Floor Foyer)
3:30 p.m.-4:45 p.m. Concurrent Panels
Concurrent Panel 8A: Workers, Unions, & Marx
Moderator:
Jonathan Harris, Associate Professor, Loyola Law School
Tristin Green, Professor of Law, Loyola Law School
Saru Matambanadzo, Professor of Law, Tulane University Law School
Concurrent Panel 8B: Critical Constitutional Reinvention: A Proposal for Reimagining America’s First Principles
Moderator:
Atiba Ellis, Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Darrell Jackson, Professor of Law, University of Wyoming College of Law
Christian Sundquist, Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Concurrent Panel 8C: Economics at Work
Moderator:
Enrique Guerra-Pujol, Associate Instructor of Law, University of Central Florida
Michael Sousa, Associate Professor, University of Denver Sturm College of Law
Tayyab Mahmud, Professor of Law, Seattle University
Farshad Ghodoosi, Assistant Professor, California State University, Northridge
4:45 p.m.-5:00 p.m. Closing Remarks (BW 390)