2010-2011
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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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