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Fall 2019
Save the Date: Symposium Celebrates Critical Race Studies at 20
UCLA Law’s Critical Race Studies Program turns 20 in 2020 and will celebrate at the CRS Symposium, “Rebellious Lawyering — Reverberations from One Chicano’s Radical Vision,” on March 12 and 13, 2020. The conference honors Professor Emeritus Gerald P. López and his groundbreaking book, Rebellious Lawyering: One
Chicano’s Vision of Progressive Law Practice. The book has reverberated for three decades — challenging the color-blind, experts-rule approach of conventional public interest practice and providing a blueprint for fundamental changes to legal education. We invite alumni to return to the law school for this event, including evening receptions! For more info, visit our symposium page.
Intersectionality at 30: A Q&A with Kimberlé Crenshaw
Distinguished Professor and founding CRS faculty member Kimberlé W. Crenshaw first defined the term intersectionality in a University of Chicago Legal Forum article in 1989. In an interview, she discusses the evolution of her groundbreaking
idea.
New Clinic Partners with Black Worker Center
In 2019, CRS launched a Race, Work and Economic Justice Clinic, in collaboration with the L.A. Black Worker Center.
L.A. County Supervisors Honor UCLA Law Reentry Clinic
In its first 10 years, the student-run clinic has assisted 2,800 individuals, filed 8,400 petitions and trained 400-plus volunteers.
The First Glazer Scholars
In 2018-19, CRS named Hope Bentley ’21 and Kennedy Willis ’21 to be the first recipients of the Erika J. Glazer Endowed Scholarship.
Human Rights and Race
The groundbreaking symposium “Critical Perspectives on Race and Human Rights: Transnational Re-Imaginings" brought more than 150 top scholars to UCLA Law.
Faculty Research
E. TENDAYI ACHIUME
Professor of Law
Faculty Director, Promise Institute for Human Rights
Achiume’s recent publications include reports to the United Nations General Assembly on reparations and anti-Semitic violence, delivered in 2019 in her role as Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance.
SAMEER ASHAR
Vice Dean for Experiential Education
Professor of Law
Ashar’s recent publications include “DACA, Government Lawyers, and the Public Interest,” with Stephen Lee, 87 Fordham Law Review 1879 (2019), and “Access to Power,” with Annie Lai, 148 Daedalus 82 (2019).
LATOYA BALDWIN CLARK
Assistant Professor of Law
Baldwin Clark’s recent publications include “Education as Property,” 105 Virginia Law Review 397 (2019), and “Beyond Bias: Cultural Capital in Anti-Discrimination Law,” 53 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 381 (2018).
ASLI Ü.BÂLI
Professor of Law
Bâli co-organized “Critical Perspectives on Race and Human Rights: Transnational Reimaginings” in 2019 and the American Society of International Law Midyear Meeting in 2018. Recent publications include “Turkey’s Constitutional Coup,” 288 Middle East Report (2018).
DEVON W. CARBADO
The Honorable Harry Pregerson Professor of Law
Professor of African American Studies
Carbado’s recent publications include “Intersectionality at 30: Mapping the Margins of Anti-Essentialism, Intersectionality, and Dominance Theory,” with Cheryl I. Harris, 132 Harvard Law Review 2193 (2019), and “States of Continuity or State of Exception? Race, Law and Politics in the Age of Trump,” 34 Constitutional Commentary 1 (2019).
JENNIFER M. CHACÓN
Professor of Law
Chacón will be a Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Cincinnati School of Law in 2020. Upcoming publications include “Prosecutors and the Immigration Enforcement System,” in The Oxford Handbook on Prosecutors and Prosecution (Oxford University Press).
KIMBERLÉ W. CRENSHAW
Distinguished Professor of Law
Crenshaw was named a 2019 Fellow of the American Academy of Political & Social Science. In June 2019, she received an honorary doctorate from York University’s Osgoode Hall Law School. Her upcoming book is On Intersectionality: Essential Writings (New Press).
LAURA E. GÓMEZ
Professor of Law
Professor of Sociology
Professor of Chicana & Chicano Studies
Faculty Director, Critical Race Studies Program
Gómez continued her founding role with the Latino Policy and Politics Initiative at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. Recent publications include “La Colonización Estadounidense del Norte de México y la Creación de los Mexicano-Estadounidenses,” 36 UCLA Chicanx/Latinx Law Review 189 (2019).
CHERYL I. HARRIS
Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Professor in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties
Professor of African American Studies
Harris was appointed a Princeton Law and Public Affairs Fellow for 2019-20. Recent publications include “Intersectionality at 30: Mapping the Margins of Anti-Essentialism, Intersectionality, and Dominance Theory,” with Devon W. Carbado, 132 Harvard Law Review 2193 (2019).
HIROSHI MOTOMURA
Susan Westerberg Prager Distinguished Professor of Law
Motomura received an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Loyola University New Orleans in May 2019. Upcoming publications include “The New Migration Law: Migrants, Refugees, and Citizens in an Anxious Age,” 105 Cornell Law Review.
SUNITA PATEL
Assistant Professor of Law
Faculty Director, UCLA Veterans Legal Clinic
Patel testified to the Los Angeles Police Commission during its hearing reviewing data-driven police strategies in April 2019. Upcoming publications include “Jumping Hurdles to Sue Police," 104 Minnesota Law Review.
ANGELA R. RILEY
Professor of Law
Director, MA/JD Joint Degree Program in Law and American Indian Studies
Director, Native Nations Law and Policy Center
Riley was the Senior Visiting Indigenous Scholar at Melbourne Law School in 2018. Recent publications include “Privatizing the Reservation?,” with Kristen Carpenter, 71 Stanford Law Review 791 (2019).
SHEROD THAXTON
Professor of Law
Professor of African American Studies
Professor of Sociology
Upcoming publications include “Shrinking the Accountability Deficit in Capital Charging,” in The Oxford Handbook on Prosecutors and Prosecution (Oxford University Press) and “Metrics of Mayhem: Quantifying Capriciousness in Capital Cases,” in The Eighth Amendment and Its Future in a New Age of Punishment, (Cambridge University Press).
NOAH D. ZATZ
Professor of Law
Zatz recently became co-editor of the Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal. Upcoming publications include “Get To Work or Go To Jail: State Violence and the Racialized Production of Precarious Work,” Law & Social Inquiry, and “Employer Aversion to Criminal Records: An Experimental Study of Mechanisms,” Criminology (2020).
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