Agenda

BEYOND LAW’S DIVIDE: Effective Strategies for Redress in the 21st Century

Day 1      THURSDAY, March 12, 2009
Goldberg Room, 297 Simon Hall.

2:00 pm      Graduate Student Presentations
PRESENTERS –
• Willoughby Anderson, J.D. candidate, UC Berkeley School of Law; Scholar Advocate
• Jose Arias, Ph.D. candidate, Social and Cultural Studies Program, Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley; ISSC Graduate Fellow
• Atteeyah Hollie, J.D. candidate, UC Berkeley School of Law
• Kony Kim, J.D. candidate, UC Berkeley School of Law
• Genevieve Negron-Gonzales, Ph.D. candidate, Social and Cultural Studies Program, Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley; ISSC Graduate Fellow
• Kim Richards, Ph.D. candidate, Comparative Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley; ISSC Graduate Fellow

4:30 pm      Introduction and Welcome

Robert D. and Leslie-Kay Raven Lecture on Access to Justice
The Paradox of Sovereignty: Race and Tribal Membership
• Kevin Noble Maillard, Assistant Professor of Law, Syracuse University, College of Law; Seminole Nation of Oklahoma (Mekusukey Band)

6:00 pm    Reception in Donor Lobby

Day 2      FRIDAY, March 13, 2009
Goldberg Room, 297 Simon Hall.

8:15 am    Continental Breakfast and Registration

8:45 am     Introduction and Welcome

9:00-10:30 am    Beyond the Discrimination Frame: How Critical Race Theory and Scientific Research Can Inform Civil Rights Practice
PANELISTS –
• Edgar S. Cahn, Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Law, The University of the District of Columbia, David A. Clarke School of Law
• Cheryl Harris, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
• Justin D. Levinson, Associate Professor of Law, University of Hawai’i, William S. Richardson School of Law
• Kimberly Thomas Rapp, Director of Law and Public Policy, Equal Justice Society

Student Participant:
Willoughby Anderson, J.D. candidate, UC Berkeley School of Law; Scholar Advocate

Break

10:45 am-12:15 pm    The Best Path Forward for Native People: Race, Sovereignty, and Conceptualizing an Anti-Subordination Trust Doctrine
PANELISTS –
• Rovianne Leigh (Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma), Alexander Berkey Williams & Weathers, LLP
• Michael Alexander Pearl (Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma), Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP
• Susan Serrano, Director of Educational Development Center for Excellence in Hawaiian Law, University of Hawai’i, William S. Richardson School of Law
• Mary Christina Wood, Philip H. Knight Professor of Law, University of Oregon School of Law

Student Participants:
Kamaile Maldonado, J.D. student, UC Berkeley School of Law
Kim Richards, Ph.D. candidate, Comparative Ethnic Studies, UC Berkeley; ISSC Graduate Fellow

12:15-1:45 pm    Lunch – Breakout Sessions

2:00-3:30 pm    A Third Way: Rejecting the Traditional Divisive Paradigms
PANELISTS –
• Robert T. Coulter (Potawatomi), Executive Director, Indian Law Resource Center
• Kevin Noble Maillard (Seminole Nation of Oklahoma – Mekusukey Band), Assistant Professor of Law, Syracuse University, College of Law
• Eric Yamamoto, Professor of Law, University of Hawai’i, William S. Richardson School of Law

Student Participants:
Kony Kim, joint J.D. & Ph.D. student, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, UC Berkeley School of Law

Break

3:45-5:15 pm    Case Studies in Success
PANELISTS –
• Troy Fletcher (Yurok), Policy Analyst, Yurok Tribe
• Robert Garcia, Executive Director, City Project of Los Angeles
• Marybelle Nzegwu, Civil Rights Advocate, Center on Race, Poverty and the Environment
• Robin Steinberg, Executive Director, The Bronx Defenders
• R. Mona Tawatao, Regional Counsel, Legal Services of Northern California

Student Participants:
Jose Arias, Ph.D. candidate, Social and Cultural Studies Program, Graduate School of Education, UC Berkeley; ISSC Graduate Fellow
Atteeyah Hollie, J.D. student, UC Berkeley School of Law

5:15 pm    Closing Remarks