Ruth Chance was the only woman in her Boalt Hall class of 1931. That, alone, is an accomplishment. But Chance went on to do much more. A social commentator, historian, sociologist, and social justice crusader, Chance worked tirelessly on behalf of children and youth against poverty, racism, and class discrimination.
This beloved lecture series honors Chance by inviting social justice practitioners to Berkeley Law to discuss current issues and cases with students. At these gatherings, we break bread and brainstorm about community law practice, private practice in the public interest, access to health care, the digital divide, international human rights, criminal justice, reproductive justice, children’s advocacy, social entrepreneurism, and so much more.
This speaker series has been endowed through a grant from the Rosenberg Foundation.
Video Catalog by Academic Year
Ramón Arias, Executive Director, Bay Area Legal Aid; and John O’Toole ’74, Director, National Center for Youth Law
From Theory to Reality: Memories and Advice From a Couple of Social Justice Veterans
Date: 11/18/2013
Duration: 1:11
Description: Ramon Arias (Executive Director of Bay Area Legal Aid) and John O’Toole ’74 (Director of National Center of Youth Law) share their knowledge, experience, and advice of over 30 years with current law students and those interested in social justice. Arias and O’Toole discuss changes within social justice work throughout their careers.
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Justice Albie Sachs (ret.), Constitutional Court of South Africa
“50 Years with Mandela”
Date: 11/14/2013
Duration: 1:07
Description: Join the Henderson Center for an extraordinary talk with South African Freedom Fighter, Justice Albie Sachs. His career in human rights activism started at the age of seventeen, when as a second year law student at the University of Cape Town, he took part in the Defiance of Unjust Laws Campaign. In 1966 he went into exile. After spending eleven years studying and teaching law in England he worked for a further eleven years in Mozambique as law professor and legal researcher. In 1988 he was blown up by a bomb placed in his car in Maputo by South African security agents, losing an arm and the sight of an eye. During the 1980s working closely with Oliver Tambo, leader of the ANC in exile. After recovering from the bomb he devoted himself full-time to preparations for a new democratic Constitution for South Africa. In 1990 he returned home and as a member of the Constitutional Committee and the National Executive of the ANC took an active part in the negotiations which led to South Africa becoming a constitutional democracy. After the first democratic election in 1994, he was appointed by President Nelson Mandela to serve on the newly established Constitutional Court.
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Adam Murray ’98, Executive Director, Inner City Law Center (Los Angeles, CA)
From Corporate Lawyer to Skid Row: One Lawyer’s Journey
Date: 10/07/2013
Duration: 1:11
Description: An expert on both housing and homelessness, Adam Murray has developed and promoted innovative public policies that reduce homelessness and lead to safe, healthy and affordable housing. Recognized nationally as a leader in homelessness issues, Murray the Executive Director of Inner City Law Center (ICLC) has led in developing effective programs, including groundbreaking programs that meet the legal needs of homeless veterans in Los Angeles. Murray received a B.A. In International Relations from Pomona College, an M.A. In Economics from Claremont Graduate University, and a J.D. from University of California at Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law.
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Veena Dubal ’06, Ph.D. candidate, Jurisprudence and Social Policy, UC Berkeley; Graduate Fellow, Center for Research on Social Change, UC Berkeley
Putting the ‘Community’ back in Community Policing in the Post 9/11 Context: A Case Study of Lawyers Using Local Government to Resist FBI Profiling and Surveillance
Date: 09/23/2013
Description: This lecture addresses the advocacy of Bay Area civil rights attorneys working alongside grassroots partners to stop the use of local resources for national initiatives that unfairly target communities based on race, religion, and country of origin. Working with South Asian, Arab, and Muslim American communities, community lawyers have built strong coalitions and addressed federal profiling initiatives through an appeal to local governments’ commitment to community policing. While federal litigation against problematic national security initiatives has too often been disappointing, strong community solidarity and activism have paved the path to successful legal resistance.
Sponsor(s): Asian American Law Journal, South Asian Law Students Association, Men of Color Alliance, Middle Eastern Law Students Association, and Women of Color Collective
Eva Paterson ’75, Co-founder and President, Equal Justice Society
Trayvon Martin: Exiles in Our Own Land
Date: 09/09/2013
Description: Civil rights attorney Eva Jefferson Paterson is co-founder and President of the Equal Justice Society, a national strategy group focused on reclaiming the 14th Amendment and its Constitutional safeguards against discrimination. Paterson has received numerous awards, including the Fay Stender Award from the California Women Lawyers, Woman of the Year from the Black Leadership Forum, the Earl Warren Civil Liberties Award from the ACLU of Northern California, and the Alumni Award of Merit from Northwestern University. She is a graduate of Northwestern University, where she received her B.A. in political science, and U.C. Berkeley’s Boalt Hall School of Law.
Sponsor(s): Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy, Women of Color Collective, Men of Color Alliance, and Law Students of African Descent
Sujatha Baliga, Esq., Director, Restorative Justice Project, National Council on Crime and Delinquency
Law’s Middle Way: Mindfulness and Restorative Justice
Date: 10/22/2012
Duration: 01:07:16.32
Description: Sujatha Baliga, a former criminal defense attorney and now Director of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency’s Restorative Justice Project, will discuss the value of mindfulness in her work, the parallel paradigm shifts invited by the practices of mindfulness and restorative justice, and the place of forgiveness in restorative processes. She has taught restorative justice at both the colleges and law school levels, offers lectures and training in a number of restorative practices, and has served as a consultant to the Stanford Criminal Justice Center.
Sponsor(s): Berkeley Initiative for Mindfulness in Law; Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
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Jennifer Chacon, Professor of Law, UC Irvine School of Law
Arizona v. United States, 567 U. S. (2012): The Political Forces that Shaped the US Supreme Court Decision
Date: 09/17/2012
Duration: 57:42.31
Description: After Arizona enacted an unprecedented immigration statute (SB 1070), several civil liberties organizations and the US government sued to block its enforcement, calling it unconstitutional because it encroached on the federal government’s exclusive authority over immigration and would result in widespread racial profiling. The Supreme Court struck down and upheld portions of the law. Those that it upheld offer unprecedented affirmation for state and local participation in immigration enforcement. In her talk, Professor Chacón will discuss the political forces that influenced the Court’s novel understanding of the role of sub-federal actors in immigration enforcement.
Sponsor: Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
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Adante Pointer, Civil Rights Attorney, Law Offices of John L. Burris
Date: 09/10/2012
Duration: 56:48.30
Description: Named one of the Nation’s 40 Best Lawyers under 40 by the National Bar Association, Adante D. Pointer will describe his journey from student to legal advocate to community steward of justice. “My path was not straight forward but was filled with many fits and spurts along with an occasional diversion and many potholes. Nevertheless, through academic, personal and professional challenges, I found my voice in the law and now use that voice to give voice to the voiceless and just perhaps hope to the hopeless!” Mr. Pointer is a civil rights attorney and criminal defense lawyer with the nationally renown Law Offices of John L. Burris. He specializes in representing victims of police abuse. He also practices criminal defense law. Among his cases was his participation in the successful civil defense of NBA star Gary Payton and NFL star Keyshawn Johnson. While Mr. Pointer has secured millions of dollars for victims of police brutality, unlawful arrest, and excessive tasing, he also takes on cases where the monetary award may be low but the cause is righteous.
Sponsor: Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
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Taryn Kiekow, Staff Attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council
The Legal Fight to Block Pebble Mine, Bristol Bay, Alaska
Date: 04/09/2012
Duration: 00:56:45.56
Description: In this Ruth Chance Lecture, Taryn Kiekow, a staff attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), discussed Pebble Mine, a proposed mine near Bristol Bay, Alaska, what’s at stake if it is built and the legal fight she is leading to block it. Pebble Mine would become one of the largest (if not the largest) gold and copper mines in the world if built. The area is very remote though, and would require massive amounts of new infrastructure. This would put an end to the traditional Native lifestyles and culture by diverting and blocking Salmon rivers (currently the largest business in the area) and preventing subsistence hunting (the main source of food).
Sponsor(s): Native American Law Students Association (NALSA); Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
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Robert Rubin, Director of Litigation, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area
California Voting Rights Act
Date: 04/02/2012
Duration: 00:39:29.19
Description: Robert Rubin, a civil rights attorney for the past 28 years and the Legal Director for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, represents a group of Asian Americans and Latinos who in April 2011, brought a voting rights lawsuit against San Mateo County, the only county in California that elects supervisors by at-large balloting rather than by districts. Mr. Rubin’s lecture is a behind-the-scenes look at the case, which asks a judge to declare the county-wide elections illegal under California law. While Asians Americans and Latinos make up slightly less than 25 percent of San Mateo County’s voting-age population, only one Latino and no Asian Americans have held seats on the five-seat Board of Supervisors since 1995.
Sponsor: Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
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Hon. Lise A. Pearlman (ret.) ’74
People v. Huey Newton and the Election of President Barack Obama
Date: 02/06/2012
Duration: 00:44:01:72
Description: In this Ruth Chance Lecture, attorney, and former judge Lise Pearlman ’74 discussed her book The Sky’s the Limit: People v. Newton, The REAL Trial of the 20th Century? In the book she argues that the death penalty trial of Huey Newton provides the most insight into the American 20th century. Ms. Pearlman contends that had the jury voted for the death penalty, Barack Obama would likely not be President. In 1968, Black Panther co-founder Huey P. Newton was brought to trial for the murder of an Oakland police officer, following a shoot-out. All the major power struggles based on race, class, gender and ideology were at play. The diverse jury found Newton guilty of involuntary manslaughter, which spared him the penalty of death.
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Daniel Werner, Deputy Legal Director, Southern Poverty Law Center
ChallengingAnti-Immigrant Laws: Lessons from Alabama
Date: 02/21/2012
Duration: 1:06:30
Description: Guest Lecturer Dan Werner is a leader in the Southern Poverty Law Center’s campaign to defeat Alabama’s draconian anti-immigrant law. Under the Alabama law, police are allowed to check the immigration status of people they stop and reasonably suspect are in the country unlawfully. Nearly all new contracts between an undocumented immigrant and another person are unenforceable in state court. It is a felony for undocumented immigrants to enter into a “business transaction” with the state of Alabama. Beginning April 1, 2012, employers will be required to use e-verify to determine the immigration status of prospective employees.
Sponsor(s): Berkeley La Raza Law Journal; Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
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Kimberly Papillon, Esq., Senior Education Specialist, California Judicial Council, Administrative Office of the Courts
Neuroscience & Psychology of Decision-making in the Law: Gender and Racial Preferences and Biases
Date: 01/23/2012
Duration: 01:02:36:97
Description: Kimberly Papillon is a nationally recognized expert on the subject of judicial and legal decision-making. She is an attorney and a Senior Education Specialist at the California Judicial Council’s Administrative Office of the Courts in the Education Division. She serves as the statewide Project Manager for fairness education for judges and court personnel in California. She has delivered over 100 lectures nationwide on the implications of neuroscience, psychology and implicit association in the analysis of judicial fairness to multiple audiences including judges and appellate justices throughout California, the Council of Chief Judges of the State Courts of Appeal, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District, the D.C. Court of Appeals, national judicial organizations and the California State Bar. In the past several months she has delivered lectures to the Los Angeles and San Francisco County District Attorney’s Offices, the United States Department of Justice, and the judiciaries of Vermont, Washington, Nebraska, and Idaho. She is regular faculty at the National Judicial College. She has been appointed to the National Center for State Courts, National Training Team on Implicit Bias a “think tank” for national judicial education. She has produced documentaries on Neuroscience and Judicial Decision-Making which have received national recognition.
Brad Seligman, Attorney, Impact Fund; and Co-Lead Counsel
Wal-Mart v. Dukes, 131 S. Ct. 2541 (2011)
Date: 11/07/2011
Description: In this Ruth Chance lecture, Brad Seligman discussed Wal-Mart v. Dukes, a case decided in the Supreme Court’s most recent term. The decision may effectively cut out consumer and employee claims because it restricts the ability to use class action lawsuits. For over 30 years, Brad Seligman has been a civil rights attorney specializing in class action and individual employment and civil rights litigation. He is the founder of public foundation, the Impact Fund, which provides financial and technical assistance and representation for complex public interest litigation. After serving as the organization’s Executive Director for 17 years, Seligman became Senior Counsel in July 2010. Since 1992, the Impact Fund has granted over $5 million to support such litigation. He has successfully litigated over 50 civil rights class actions and countless individual employment cases including wrongful termination actions.
Henderson Hill Executive Director, Federal Defenders of Western North Carolina Inc.
The North Carolina Racial Justice Act and the Georgia Execution of Troy Davis
Date: 10/24/2011
Duration: 00:57:40:76
Description: In this Ruth Chance lecture, Henderson Hill discussed the political and legal organizing that led to North Carolina’s adoption in 2009 of the Racial Justice Act, a law that allows death-row inmates and defendants facing the death penalty to use statistics and other evidence to show that racial bias played a significant factor in either their sentence or in the prosecutors’ decision to pursue the death penalty. Mr. Hill also discussed the impact of the law and will also compare and contrast the death penalty environment in North Carolina versus Georgia, where Troy Davis was executed on September 21, 2011, despite serious doubts among many about his guilt.
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Kafi D. Blumenfield, President and CEO, Liberty Hill Foundation
Change. Not Charity: Investing in Community Leaders at the Frontlines of Change
Date: 10/10/2011
Duration: 00:56:16.60
Description: Kafi D. Blumenfield is the President and CEO of Liberty Hill Foundation, one of the nation’s most admired social change foundations. Since joining Liberty Hill in 2004, she has focused on expanding Liberty Hill’s impact by strengthening the Foundation’s investment in community leaders on the frontlines of change. During her tenure, Ms. Blumenfield has overseen several critical aspects of the Foundation’s work in Los Angeles including the launch of the Wally Marks Leadership Institute for Change, an intensive on-the-job training for local community organizers; initiatives to increase donor diversity in social justice philanthropy including Change L.A., which is building millennial-generation giving; and a strategic refocusing of Liberty Hill’s nearly $5 million annual grant investments.
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Michael Bien, Managing Partner, Rosen, Bien & Galvan LLP, and Co-Lead Counsel
Brown v. Plata, 131 S. Ct. 1910 (2011)
Date: 09/26/2011
Duration: 01:02:05.07
Description: Michael W. Bien is co-lead counsel in the three-judge court proceeding initiated in 2006 to impose a population cap on the California prison system, the nation’s largest correctional system. The case resulted in an August 2009 Order requiring the prison system to reduce overcrowding within two years to 137.5% of design capacity—a reduction in population of approximately 30-40,000 prisoners. The case went on direct appeal to the United States Supreme Court, which affirmed in a 5-4 decision on May 23, 2011.
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Maeve Elise Brown, Executive Director & Founder, Housing and Economic Rights Advocates
Predatory and Unfair Mortgage Lending: What Happened and Will the Abuses Continue
Date: 09/12/2011
Duration: 01:00:04:63
Description: Federal and state court dockets are overflowing with predatory lending and unfair mortgage lending cases. The abusive practices have deprived hundreds of thousands of Americans of their homes. Unscrupulous lawyers have also been implicated in this under-recognized social justice issue. Maeve Elise Brown, Executive Director and a founder of Housing and Economic Rights Advocates (HERA), will discuss some of the abusive mortgage lending practices that have severely damaged the United States economy. She will also discuss some of the changes to federal laws and some proposed regulations that may serve to curb some abusive practices, and the fair housing implications of these changes.
Sponsor(s): Consumer Advocacy and Protection Society (CAPS) at Berkeley Law
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Jean-Claude Beaujour, Partner, Cabinet Hobson
Opposition to “American-Style” Diversity in France: How the French Business Community Responds
Date: 03/28/2011 Duration: 58:51 Description: France provides a remarkable lens for exploring racism. The country is committed through its revolutionary republican, anti-aristocratic principles to the denial of the relevance of race or any other form of identity other than citizenship. Yet inequalities based on race, ethnicity and religion are glaring. Jean-Claude Beaujour discusses that in the face of opposition to what are often described as “American-style” civil rights remedies, French business interests, wanting the economic benefits of competing in a diverse world market, are leading a campaign to legitimize the principle of embracing diversity. Sponsor: Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice and Berkeley Center for Law and Business
Christina Swarns, Director, Criminal Justice Project, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.
Post-Racial America: The View from Death Row
Date: 03/14/2011 Duration: 57:16 Description: Christina Swarns is the Director of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.’s (LDF) Criminal Justice Project. She represents death-sentenced prisoners throughout the country; litigates, consults and advises on cases and issues involving race and criminal justice nationwide; prepares amicus briefs to various courts including the United States Supreme Court; and organizes LDF’s Annual Capital Punishment Training Conference. Sponsor(s): Law Students of African Descent (LSAD) Sponsor: Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
Rachael Knight ’05, Director, Community Land Titling Initiative, International Development Law Organization
Community Land Titling: Statutory Recognition of Customary Land Rights
Date: 02/14/2011 Description: Rachael Knight is an attorney with expertise in the areas of land tenure security, access to justice, and legal empowerment of the poor. In this Ruth Chance lecture, Ms. Knight discusses her work as the current Director of the International Development Law Organization’s (IDLO) Community Land Titling Initiative, working to document and protect the customary land rights of indigenous groups in Uganda, Liberia and Mozambique. Sponsor: Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
Renee Saucedo ’90, Community Empowerment Coordinator, La Raza Centro Legal
Perspectives of a Community Lawyer Working in the Immigrant Rights Movement
Date: 01/31/2011 Duration: 55:31 Description: Renee Saucedo ’90 is an organizer, an activist and a lawyer who has played a prominent role in this country’s immigrant rights movement at all levels. She has led various immigrant rights organizations and has participated in numerous community campaigns related to the rights of undocumented immigrants, immigrant workers and poor people, in general. Sponsor: Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
Angela Chan, Juvenile Justice and Education Project at the Asian Law Caucus
Addressing Biased-Related Youth Crime through Restorative Justice
Date: 11/01/2010 Duration: 58:48 Description: In her Ruth Chance lecture, Angela Chan, staff attorney managing the Juvenile Justice and Education Project at the Asian Law Caucus, discussed patterns of youth violence in schools and the over-reliance on suspensions, expulsions, and the juvenile justice system to address it. Her presentation explored the application of restorative justice as a promising approach to achieve the dual goal of disrupting the school to prison pipeline and promoting safe and inclusive schools. Sponsor(s): Advocates for Youth Justice, the Restorative Justice Committee at Berkeley Law, and the Asian American Law Journal. Sponsor: Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
Randall Susskind, Equal Justice Initiative
Illegal Racial Discrimination in Jury Selection: A Continuing Legacy
Date: 10/18/2010 Duration: 58:48 Description: The Henderson Center’s fall 2010 Practitioner-in-Residence, Randall Susskind, Deputy Director at the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) in Montogomery, Alabama, delievered a Ruth Chance lecture on the EJI’s report, “Illegal Racial Discrimination in Jury Selection: A Continuing Legacy.” Sponsor(s): Death Penalty Clinic at Berkeley Law Sponsor: Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
Reginald T. Shuford, Equal Justice Society
Implicit Bias and the Law
Date: 10/04/2010 Duration: 54:07 Description: In this Ruth Chance lecture, Reginald Shuford, the Director of Law and Policy at the Equal Justice Society, discussed the importance of understanding implicit or unconscious bias and its relationship to the law. Sponsor: Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
Sondra Solovay ’96, Author of “Tipping the Scales of Justice” and Marilyn Wann, Author of “FAT!SO?”
Do Fat People Have Rights?: Fat as a Civil Rights Issue
Date: 09/13/2010 Duration: 1:02 Description: In the tradition of critical race studies, queer studies, and women’s studies, fat studies is an interdisciplinary field of scholarship marked by an aggressive, consistent, rigorous critique of the negative assumptions, stereotypes, and stigmas placed on fat and the fat body. In this Ruth Chance lecture, Sondra Solovay ’96 and Marilyn Wann discussed weight discrimination in all aspects of our life, including health care, education, employment, housing and public accommodation. Sponsor: Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
Thomas A. Saenz, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF)
Arizona’s New Immigration Law: Is it Unconstitutional?
Date: 08/30/2010 Duration: 58:57 Description: In this Ruth Chance lecture, Thomas A. Saenz discussed the lawsuit that the civil rights organization he leads filed in federal court to block the enforcement of the unprecedented Arizona immigration statute signed into law by Arizona’s governor in April, 2010. Mr. Saenz also discussed what the law portends as more and more elected officials and political candidates call for replication of the statute across the United States. Sponsor(s): Center for Latino Policy Research at UC Berkeley, Berkeley La Raza Law Journal, and Boalt Hall’s American Constitution Society. Sponsor: Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
Johanna D. Hoffmann, Attorney at Law and client Demetrius Daniel, along with Leonard Rubio
The Politics and Policy of Parole in California: Views of Two “Lifers” and an Attorney
Date: 04/12/2010
Duration: 1:00:47
Description: In this lecture, Johanna Hoffmann discusses the politics and policies of parole in California alongside former “lifers” Demetrius Daniel and Leonard Rubio.
Sponsor: Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
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Caroline Bettinger-Lopez, Lead Counsel in Jessica Gonzales v. United States
Domestic Violence as a Human Rights Violation: Lessons from Jessica Gonzales V. United States
Date: 03/15/2010
Duration: 1:03:51
Description: In this lecture, Caroline Bettinger-Lopez, together with her client, Jessica Gonzales Lenahan, discuss the history and dynamics of Jessica Gonzales v United States. Lenahan also discuss her experience as a litigant in the case, and specifically, her personal transformation through the course of the case from victim to survivor to client to activist.
Sponsor: Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
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Pamela Y. Price, Price And Associates
How I Won Over US Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas in a Race
Date: 02/08/2010
Duration: 54:30
Description: In this lecture, Pamela Price explains how she argued and won a Title VII race discrimination case, whose decision was authored by Justice Clarence Thomas.
Sponsor(s): Berkeley Journal of African American Law & Policy, Law Students of African Descent, and the Women of Color Collective Sponsor: Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
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Adrienne Bloch, Senior Staff Attorney, Communities for a Better Environment (CBE) & Nile Malloy, Northern California Program Director, Communities for a Better Environment (CBE)
From the Ground Up: Communities for a Better Environment (CBE) v. City of Richmond/Chevron – A Case Study in Grassroots Organizing and Legal Advocacy
Date: 11/02/2009
Duration: 1:04:58
Description: In this lecture, Adrienne Bloch, Senior Staff Attorney for Communities for a Better Environment (CBE) and co-counsel in the litigation against City of Richmond and Chevron, and Nile Malloy, CBE’s Northern California’s Program Director, discuss the grassroots campaign and legal advocacy used against the Chevron Richmond refinery project.
Sponsor(s): Center for Law, Energy & the Environment (CLEE) & Law Students for Environmental and Economic Justice (SEEJ) Sponsor: Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
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Osagie Obasogie, Associate Professor of Law, UC Hastings School of Law
Medical Exploitation: Prisoners as Guinea Pigs
Date: 10/19/2009
Duration: 1:03
Description: Professor Obasogie’s research looks at the complex interplay between law and society with regards to American race relations. In this lecture, he discusses his recent work involving developing regulatory schemes for reproductive and genetic technologies that encourage innovation, protect vulnerable communities, and promote the public good.
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Stephen Pershing, Director, UCDC Law Program, University of California Washington Center
Ashcroft v. Iqbal or Civil Procedure v. Civil Rights
Date: 09/14/2009
Duration: 49:34
Description: Stephen B. Pershing wrote an amicus curiae brief to the Supreme Court in the case of Aschroft v. Iqbal. In this lecture, he examines the decision through the lens of social justice, and reveal how rules of civil procedure that are intended to promote access to justice can become barriers to that very access.
Sponsor: Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
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Cecilia Estolano, CEO, Community Redevelopment Agency of the City of Los Angeles (CRA/LA)
A Progressive Model of Economic and Environmental Justice Through City Redevelopment – A Case Study in Los Angeles
Date: 08/31/2009
Description: With an annual budget exceeding $600 million and a work program covering 32 project areas throughout the City of Los Angeles, CRA/LA is the largest redevelopment agency in the State of California. Under Ms. Estolano’s leadership, CRA/LA has focused on creating family-supporting jobs, producing affordable and workforce housing, promoting sustainable urbanism and delivering significant, transformative investment to areas of Los Angeles that have not shared in the city’s cycles of prosperity. In this lecture, she discusses how CRA/LA has rebuilt its housing department, adopted a landmark policy on local hiring in construction jobs receiving financial support from CRA/LA, adopted a Healthy Neighborhoods policy as a blueprint for incorporating sustainability principles throughout CRA/LA’s practices, programs and projects.
Sponsor(s): Law Students for Environmental and Economic Justice (SEEJ) Sponsor: Thelton E. Henderson Center for Social Justice
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