The intellectual hub of the law school's vibrant social justice community, the Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice is a training and research center that prepares the next generation of lawyers to represent underserved communities and produces innovative and accessible scholarship on issues of race, sex and poverty.
Pauli Murray Endowed Lecture Campaign
UPCOMING EVENTS
Jan. 9 - Social Justice Student Network Meeting
1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
141-Boalt Hall
Jan. 14 - Ruth Chance Lecture Series
12:45 p.m. to 1:45 p.m.
132-Boalt Hall
Jan. 17 - Social Justice Thursday Series
12:45 p.m. to 1:45 p.m.
132-Boalt Hall
Jan. 24 - Social Justice Thursday Series
12:45 p.m. to 1:45 p.m.
132-Boalt Hall
Jan. 28 - Ruth Chance Lecture Series
12:45 p.m. to 1:45 p.m.
132-Boalt Hall
Jan. 31 - Social Justice Thursday Series
12:45 p.m. to 1:45 p.m.
132-Boalt Hall
SAVE THE DATE
February 11 - 14, 2013
Capital Punishment Defense Team Consultant
Former Death Row Prisoner
with his former attorney
George H. Kendall
Capital, Criminal, and Civil Rights Attorney
Former Attorney to Wilbert Rideau
February 28, 2013
5:00 p.m.
105-Boalt Hall
2013 ROBERT D. AND LESLIE-KAY RAVEN LECTURE
ON ACCESS TO JUSTICE
Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence
and America's Prison Nation
Beth R. Richie
2013 Raven Lecturer
Beth E. Richie is Director of the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy; Professor of African American Studies and Criminology, Law, and Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author of Compelled to Crime: The Gender Entrapment of Battered Black Women (1996 by Routledge); and Arrested Justice: Black Women, Violence, and America’s Prison Nation (2012 by New York University Press).
Kimberlé W. Crenshaw
Respondent
Kimberlé Crenshaw, Professor of Law at UCLA and Columbia Law School, is a leading authority in the area of Civil Rights, Black feminist legal theory, and race, racism and the law. She is the founding coordinator of the Critical Race Theory Workshop, and the co-editor of the volume, Critical Race Theory: Key Documents That Shaped the Movement. She is also the author of “Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color” (Stanford Law Review , Vol. 43, No. 6 (Jul., 1991), pp. 1241-1299).
Program Assistant:
Ariana Ceja
aceja@law.berkeley.edu
Graduate Student Researcher:
Rekia Jibrin
rekia@berkeley.edu
Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
UC Berkeley School of Law
897 Simon Hall, #7200
Berkeley, CA 94720-7200
Phone: 510-642-6969
Fax: 510-642-3728
E-mail: henderson.center@law.berkeley.edu