Symposia
- Spring 2011
Gendered Violence Against African American Girls and Young Women: A Call to Action
- Fall 2010
Empowered Partnerships: Participatory Action Research for Environmental Justice - Fall 2009
ReProducing Justice - Spring 2009
Beyond Law’s Divide: Effective Strategies for Redress in the 21st Century - Fall 2008
Transformative Justice in Communities of Color: A Convening - Spring 2008
Whose Poverty? Whose Crime? Unlocking the Criminalization of Poverty - Fall 2007
Reclaiming and Reframing the Dialogue on Race and Racism - Spring 2007
Law's Violence, Ruptured Community: Justice and Healing for Immigrant Youth - Spring 2007 - Colloquium
Law and Community Economic Justice in the 21st Century: Creating a Vision of Transformative Justice - Fall 2006
Loving by Law: Forty Years Since Loving v. Virginia - Spring 2006
Citizenship Without Borders: Belonging & Exclusion in Immigrant American - Fall 2005
The New Face of California: The Great Central Valley - Spring 2005
Social Justice Movements in the U.S.: Appraising the Past, Unlocking the Future - Fall 2004
After the War on Crime: Race, Democracy and a New Reconstruction - Spring 2004
New Metropolis: Social Change in California's Cities - Fall 2003
Rekindling the Spirit of Brown v. Board of Education: A Call to Action - Spring 2003
The Corporation in Social Context: An Agenda for the Future
- Fall 2002
Whose Welfare?: Income Transfers and Economic Justice - Spring 2002
Reparations for Slavery and its Legacy - Spring 2000
Strategies of Empowerment: A Diverse Academy in a Post-Affirmative Action World
The Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice sponsors ground-breaking conferences and symposia that bring together experts from around the country to discuss strategies for social change.The Center hosts two annual lectures honoring distinguished alumni committed to social justice.
The fall symposium is host to the Hon. Mario G. Olmos Law and Cultural Diversity Memorial Lecture. This annual Boalt Hall lecture was established by friends, family and associates in memory of the late Judge Mario G. Olmos '71 to honor his commitment to social justice. The endowed lecture addresses issues of justice for people of diverse national, economic, racial and cultural backgrounds.
The spring symposium is host to the Robert D. and Leslie-Kay Raven Lecture on Access to Justice. This annual Boalt Hall lecture, established in 1994 by the law firm of Morrison & Foerster in honor of Robert D. Raven '52, presents topics relating to access to justice.