Visitors in Residence

Spring 2014
Malika Saada Saar, Special Counsel on Human Rights, The Raben Group; and Director, Human Rights Project for Girls
Ruth Chance Lecture Title: “It’s Rape: A Reframing of Domestic Child Trafficking”

Spring 2013
Wilbert Rideau, Capital Punishment Defense Team Consultant and Former Death Row Prisoner; and George H. Kendall, Capital, Criminal, and Civil Rights Attorney and Former Attorney to Wilbert Rideau

Fall 2012
Christine Sun, Deputy Legal Director, Southern Poverty Law Center
Ruth Chance Lecture Title: “The Fight for LGBT Equality in the Deep South”

Fall 2011
Henderson Hill, Executive Director, Federal Defenders of Western North Carolina Inc.
Ruth Chance Lecture Title: “The North Carolina Racial Justice Act and the Georgia Execution of Troy Davis”

Spring 2011
Christina Swarns, Director, Criminal Justice Project, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.
Ruth Chance Lecture Title: “Post-Racial America: The View from Death Row”

Fall 2010
Randy Susskind, Deputy Director, Equal Justice Initiative
Ruth Chance Lecture Title: “Illegal Racial Discrimination in Jury Selection: A Continuing Legacy”
Panel Discussion Title “Fighting Race Discrimination in Jury Selection: From Trial Courts to Appellate Courts”

Spring 2010
Caroline Bettinger-Lopez, Lead Counsel, Jessica Gonzales v. United States; and
Jessica Gonzales Lenahan, Litigant in Jessica Gonzales v. United States
Ruth Chance Lecture Title: “Domestic Violence as a Human Rights Violation: Lessons from Jessica Gonzales V. United States”
Panel Discussion Title: “Real-Time Strategic Planning Roundtable: Brainstorming Human Rights Strategies for Domestic Violence Advocacy”

Fall 2009
Andrea Ritchie, Director, Sex Workers Project, Urban Justice Center
Ruth Chance Lecture Title: “Policing Sex: Prostitution Policy in the U.S.”
Panel Discussion Title: “Racial Profiling and Police Brutality: What’s Gender Got to Do with It?”

Spring 2009
Sandra Del Valle, Senior Staff Attorney, New York Lawyers for the Public Interest
Ruth Chance Lecture Title: “Stigmatization: Struggle for Social Justice Through the Lens of Language and Disability Rights”

Fall 2008
Cynthia Valenzuela, National Director of Litigation, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund Education (MALDEF)
Ruth Chance Lecture Title: “Latinos in Education: Shaping the Law, Shaping America’s Future”
Panel Discussion Title: “The Rhetoric of Hate: Fuel for Violence Against Immigrants and People of Color”

Spring 2008
Robert “Tim” Coulter, Founder and Executive Director, Indian Law Resource Center

Fall 2007
Lisalyn Jacobs, Vice President for Government Relations, Legal Momentum

Spring 2007
Nina Perales, Southwest Regional Counsel, Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF)
Ruth Chance Lecture Title: “Race and Redistricting: The Latino Fight for a Vote That Counts”
Panel Discussion Title: “Women Lawyers – Defining Lives through Public Interest Careers”

Fall 2006
Erica Teasley Linnick, former Western Regional Counsel for the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF)
Ruth Chance Lecture Title: “Coalition of the Willing: The Benefits and Challenges of Legal Advocacy by Coalition”
Panel Discussion Title: “The Challenges Facing the Flagship Civil Rights Advocacy Organizations Today”

Spring 2006
Barbara Olshansky, Deputy Director for Litigation and Movement Support, Center for Constitutional Rights
Ruth Chance Lecture Title: “Tilting the Scales of Justice: The Dangerous Expansion of Executive Power by the Bush Administration”
Panel Discussion Title: “Does Terrorism Justify Torture?: The Parallels Between the Americas”

Fall 2005
James Bell, Executive Director, The W. Haywood Burns Institute
Ruth Chance Lecture Title: “Shadowboxing with the Apocalypse: Finding Light in Difficult Times for Children of Color in Trouble with the Law”
Panel Discussion Title: “A New Agenda for Juvenile Justice in California: Practitioners, Scholars and Activists Working Together”

Spring 2005
Tom Saenz, Vice President of Litigation, Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF)
Panel Discussion Title: “Current Immigration Issues”

Fall 2004
Stewart Kwoh, founding President and Executive Director of the Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California
Ruth Chance Lecture Title: “Searching for the Uncommon Common Ground: Can Lawyers be Multi-Cultural Leaders?”

Spring 2004
Van Jones, Founder and Executive Director, Ella Baker Center Ruth Chance Lecture Title: “Books Not Bars: California’s Incarceration Industry”

Fall 2003
Jonathan Hiatt, General Counsel for the American Federation of Labor Congress of Industrial Organization (AFL-CIO)
Ruth Chance Lecture Title: “Confronting the Lack of Freedom to Choose a Union: Labor’s Agenda”

Spring 2014
Stephen Lee ’05, Assistant Professor of Law, UC Irvine School of Law
Student Lecture Title: “Setting a Research Agenda for Immigrant Worker Advocates”
Faculty Lecture Title: “Policing Wage Theft in the Day Labor Economy”

Fall 2013
Justice Albie Sachs (ret.), Constitutional Court of South Africa
Lecture Title: “50 years with Mandela”

Spring 2013
Madhavi Sunder, Professor of Law, UC Irvine School of Law
Student Lecture Title: “Reading the Qur’an in Kuala Lumpur”
Faculty Lecture Title: “Technologies of Enlightenment”

Fall 2011
Angela Onwuachi-Willig, Charles M. and Marion J. Kierscht Professor of Law, The University of Iowa College of Law
Lecture Title: “The Obama Effect: Understanding Emerging Meanings of ‘Obama’ in Anti-Discrimination Law”

Spring 2011
Guy-Uriel Charles, Professor of Law, Duke University School of Law

Spring 2010 (Asian American Law Journal’s 2010 Neil Gotonda Lecturer)
Muneer Ahmad, Clinical Professor of Law, Yale Law School
Lecture Title: “Resisting Guantánamo: Rights at the Brink of Dehumanization”

Fall 2009
Devon W. Carbado, Vice Dean and Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
Lecture Title: “What Exactly is “Discrimination on the Basis of Race”?”

Fall 2007
William P. Quigley, Janet Mary Riley Distinguished Professor of Law; Director, Law Clinic and Gillis Long Poverty Law Center, Loyola University New Orleans School of Law
Lecture Title: “Hurricane Katrina, the Law, and Social Justice”

Spring 2007
Eric Yamamoto, Professor of Law, William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai’i at Manoa
Lecture Title: “American Reparations Theory and Practice at the Crossroads”

Fall 2006
Robert Williams, E. Thomas Sullivan Professor of Law and American Indian Studies; Director, Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program, University of Arizona Rogers College of Law in Tucson
Lecture Title: “Protection of Indigenous Peoples’ Right to Property in the International Human Rights System: The Clinical Advocacy Work of the University of Arizona Indigenous Peoples Law and Policy Program”

Spring 2006
Sheryll D. Cashin, Professor of Law, Georgetown Law School
Lecture Title: “The Failures of Integration: How Race and Class are Undermining the American Dream”

Fall 2005
Devon Carbado, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
Student Lecture Title: “Racial Naturalization”
Faculty Lecture Title: “Scrutinizing Strict Scrutiny”

Spring 2005
Craig Haney, Professor of Psychology, UC Santa Cruz
Lecture Title: “Condemning the Other in Death Penalty Trials: Biographical Racism, Structural Mitigation and the Empathic Divide”

Fall 2004
Leti Volpp, Professor of Law, American University, Washington, D.C; Visiting Professor, UCLA Law School
Lecture Title: “Engendering Culture”

Barry Scheck, Professor of Law; Director/Co-Founder, Innocence Project, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University
Lecture Title: “Innocence Project”

Spring 2004
Mary Helen McNeal, Clinical Director and Professor, University of Montana School of Law
Lecture Title: “The Next Step in Equal Justice: A Civil Gideon”

Fall 2003
Richard Delgado, Jean Lindsley Professor of Law, University of Colorado at Boulder School of Law