Event Archive
CBGHP: Confronting American Health Disparities: Crisis Pregnancy
10/14/2022
12:00:00 AM to 12:00:00 AM
In this year-long series, Confronting American Health Disparities, we amplify urgent health concerns related to women and LGBTQ communities. In the United States, health disparities track along nearly every aspect of healthcare delivery, too often resulting in unequal treatment, poor health outcomes, and sadly, even death. From birth to death, race, sex, disability and LGBTQ discrimination interferes with achieving wellness and wellbeing. This series takes up these important concerns and centers racial, reproductive, disability, and socioeconomic justice as imperative to a healthy and well-functioning democracy.
The Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy (CBGHP) serves as a reference point for research, policy development and advocacy concerning science, biotechnology, bioethics and healthcare in the United States and abroad.
CBGHP: Confronting American Health Disparities: Reproductive Landscape Post-Roe
6/8/2022
11:00:00 AM
In this year-long series, Confronting American Health Disparities, we amplify urgent health concerns related to women and LGBTQ communities. In the United States, health disparities track along nearly every aspect of healthcare delivery, too often resulting in unequal treatment, poor health outcomes, and sadly, even death. From birth to death, race, sex, disability and LGBTQ discrimination interferes with achieving wellness and wellbeing. This series takes up these important concerns and centers racial, reproductive, disability, and socioeconomic justice as imperative to a healthy and well- functioning democracy.
For the third event of the series we will have an intimate conversation about the future of reproductive rights in the post-Roe world.
As the leaked draft opinion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization clearly underscored, the Supreme Court appeares poised to overturn the historic and precedential decision in Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey and eliminate the constitutional rights to abortion. Join us for an intimate discussion between Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky and UCI Law School's Chancellor's Professor and author, Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood, Michele B. Goodwin. Dean Chemerinsky and Professor Goodwin will examine the current moment in constitutional jurisprudence, survey the broader legal landscape, and forecast the outlook for reproductive rights in a seemingly imminent post-Roe America. These Constitutional scholars will discuss about the broader implications a decision to overturn Roe could have on other Supreme Court decisions that rely on it to protect aspects of personal privacy such as contraceptive use, marraige, child custody, consensual sex among adults, and others.
Confronting American Health Disparities: Race, Class, and Maternal Mortality in the United States
2/9/2022
5:00:00 PM to 6:00:00 PM
In this year-long series, Confronting American Health Disparities, we amplify urgent health concerns related to women and LGBTQ communities. In the United States, health disparities track along nearly every aspect of healthcare delivery, too often resulting in unequal treatment, poor health outcomes, and sadly, even death. From birth to death, race, sex, disability and LGBTQ discrimination interferes with achieving wellness and wellbeing. This series takes up these important concerns and centers racial, reproductive, disability, and socioeconomic justice as imperative to a healthy and well-functioning democracy.
This event is the first in a multipart series that addresses the urgency of health disparities in the United States. This event features speakers Nourbese Flint, Dr. Tabetha Harken, Judge Glenda Hatchett, and Charles S. Johnson, IV to discuss issues at the intersection of race, sex, and class related to maternal mortality. According to the CDC, about 700 women die each year in the United States as a result of pregnancy or delivery complications. Maternal mortality affects pregnant women of all races and classes but the effects on women of color and women of lower socio-economic groups is staggering. As more and more women are being forced by the state to endure pregnancy and labor, the urgency of this issue comes to the fore. The panelist will explore what these issues mean in medicine, society, and law, drawing from personal and professional experiences.
This event is eligible for Continuing Legal Education credit. To obtain certification, please contact CWLC at cwlc@cwlc.org.
Please join us for the rest of the Series:
Confronting American Health Disparities: Access to Abortion and Health Care in the United States – April 6, 2022, 5:00 PM PST | 8:00 PM EST
Confronting American Health Disparities: Title X and Access to Contraception in the United States – June 8, 2022, 5:00 PM PST | 8:00 PM EST
Confronting American Health Disparities: Social Determinant of Health and Well-being – September 7, 2022, 5:00 PM PST | 8:00 PM EST
Confronting American Health Disparities: Crisis Pregnancy – October 14, 2022, 5:00 PM PST | 8:00 PM EST
GLAS & CBGHP | Colonialism, Capitalism, and Race in International Law
9/18/2021
This symposium centers on racial constructions and their effects as social, cultural, and legal phenomena. They are transnational, if not global. This workshop will address the construction of race in international law (both historically and contemporaneously) and thus its ongoing legacy. We combine this with a look forward at the role that international law (has and) could play as a normative resource to address and redress institutionalized racial discrimination within countries.
Speakers Include:
Tendayi Achiume, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
Jose Alvarez, Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of International Law, NYU School of Law
Thiago de Souza Amparo, Professor, FGV Direito SP
James Anaya, University Distinguished Professor and Nicholas Doman Professor of International Law, University of Colorado Law School
Penelope Andrews, Professor of Law, New York Law School
Antony Anghie, Professor, The University of Utah College of Law
Asli Bali, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
James Cavallaro, Co-Founder and Executive Director, University Network for Human Rights
James Gathii, Wing-Tat Lee Chair in International Law and Professor of Law, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Hirokazu Miyazaki, Kay Davis Professor, Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences
KS Park, Professor of Law, Korea University School of Law
Catherine Powell, Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law
Sergio Puig, Professor of Law, The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law
Annelise Riles, Executive Director of the Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Studies and Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzerk School of Law
Silvia Serrano Guzmán, Associate Director of the Healthy Families Initiative at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown Law
Matiangai Sirleaf, Nathan Patz Professor of Law, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Anna Spain Bradley, Professor of Law and Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, UCLA School of Law
Dire Tladi, Professor of International Law, University of Pretoria
GLAS & CBGHP | Colonialism, Capitalism, and Race in International Law
9/17/2021
This symposium centers on racial constructions and their effects as social, cultural, and legal phenomena. They are transnational, if not global. This workshop will address the construction of race in international law (both historically and contemporaneously) and thus its ongoing legacy. We combine this with a look forward at the role that international law (has and) could play as a normative resource to address and redress institutionalized racial discrimination within countries.
Speakers Include:
Tendayi Achiume, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
Jose Alvarez, Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of International Law, NYU School of Law
Thiago de Souza Amparo, Professor, FGV Direito SP
James Anaya, University Distinguished Professor and Nicholas Doman Professor of International Law, University of Colorado Law School
Penelope Andrews, Professor of Law, New York Law School
Antony Anghie, Professor, The University of Utah College of Law
Asli Bali, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
James Cavallaro, Co-Founder and Executive Director, University Network for Human Rights
James Gathii, Wing-Tat Lee Chair in International Law and Professor of Law, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Hirokazu Miyazaki, Kay Davis Professor, Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences
KS Park, Professor of Law, Korea University School of Law
Catherine Powell, Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law
Sergio Puig, Professor of Law, The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law
Annelise Riles, Executive Director of the Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Studies and Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzerk School of Law
Silvia Serrano Guzmán, Associate Director of the Healthy Families Initiative at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown Law
Matiangai Sirleaf, Nathan Patz Professor of Law, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Anna Spain Bradley, Professor of Law and Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, UCLA School of Law
Dire Tladi, Professor of International Law, University of Pretoria
Supreme Court Review: The State of Reproductive Rights and Justice in America
9/14/2021
5:30:00 PM to 6:45:00 PM
Women's reproductive health and rights in the U.S. are in serious peril. The U.S. Supreme Court’s recent decision to let stand Texas’s ban on abortions after six-weeks of pregnancy sets the stage for the upcoming Mississippi abortion case, Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which the Court will hear this term. Neither law provides an exception for cases of rape or incest. Both cases represent direct challenges to Roe v. Wade, which for nearly fifty years has protected the bodily autonomy and reproductive privacy of pregnant women. In a radical challenge to abortion rights, states like Mississippi, Texas, and others are appealing to the Supreme Court to reverse Roe v. Wade.
- Michele Bratcher Goodwin, Chancellor's Professor of Law & Founding Director, Center for Biotechnology & Global Health Policy, author, Policing The Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood
- Joia Crear-Perry, MD, FACOG, and Founder and President, National Birth Equity Collaborative
- Tabetha Harken, MD, MPH, Professor and Division Director, Obstetrics and Gynecology, UCI Medical School
- Lisa Ikemoto, Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law, UC Davis School of Law
- Mary Ziegler, Stearns Weaver Miller Professor, Florida State University College of Law, author, Abortion and The Law in America: Roe v. Wade To The Present
Moderator:
- Tanya Acker, Judge, CBS Television Show, Hot Bench and Host, "The Tanya Acker Show"
Presented by UCI Law and the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy.
Reference materials:
Michele Goodwin, Policing the Womb: The New Race & Class Politics of Reproduction (Cambridge University Press, 2019).
Michele Goodwin, Constitutional Gerrymandering Against Abortion Rights, 94 NYU L. Rev. 61 (2019) (with Erwin Chemerinsky).
Michele Goodwin, Abortion: A Woman’s Private Choice, 95 Tex. L. Rev. 1189 (2017) (with Erwin Chemerinsky) (reprinted in 2018 Edition of Women and the Law, Tracy Thomas eds.).
Michele Goodwin, Fetal Protection Laws: Moral Panic and the New Constitutional Battlefront, 102 Calif. L. Rev. 781 (2014).
Media:
Ms. Magazine: The Texas Abortion Ban Is History Revisited
Slate: The Sinister Origins of the Texas Abortion Law, and Why Democrats Are So Unprepared to Do Anything About It (with Dahlia Lithwick)
KQED: By 5-4 Vote, Supreme Court Refuses to Block Texas Abortion Law, Most Restrictive in Nation
Letters and Politics: Talking Reproductive Rights: The Future, the Present and the Past.
Bloomberg News: After Texas Abortion Ruling, Progressives Brace for SCOTUS Term
KPCC 89.3: What Texas’ 6-Week Abortion Ban Might Mean for Roe v . Wade Means for Roe
The Times of India: Guns for hire: New US abortion law sparks debate on bounty hunters
France News Live: Pourquoi le Texas Abortion Restriction Act ravive le débat des chasseurs de primes
La Nacion: Nueva ley antiaborto de EE. UU. suscita un debate sobre los cazarrecompensas
KPFA: Talking Reproductive Rights: The Future, the Present, and the Past
Advancing Women's Equality: Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice
3/10/2021
10:00:00 AM to 11:00:00 AM
This program is part of a four-part 2021 series: Advancing Women's Equality: Confronting Barriers to Full Inclusion and Progress. In this series, we address women's status in the United States through a civil liberties lens, examining how histories of race, sex, immigration, and LGBTQ discrimination undermine constitutional equality. The series identifies historic and contemporary legal and social barriers to women's advancement and identifies pathways forward.
Our program on March 10, 2021, Reproductive Health, Rights, and Justice, features Michele Goodwin (ACLU of MN and National Executive Committee Member); Priscilla Ocen (Professor of Law and co-author of the influential policy report, Black Girls Matter: Pushed Out, Overpoliced and Underprotected ); June Carbone. (ACLU of MN, Professor of Law, and author of Red Families v. Blue Families: Legal Polarization and the Creation of Culture); Priscilla Smith (Clinical Lecturer at Yale Law School and pathbreaking reproductive rights attorney); and Alanah Odoms (Executive Director of the ACLU of Louisiana). They will engage in a robust discussion about the future of Roe v. Wade, how the Supreme Court might rule on litigation in the pipeline, and offer insights on the current state of affairs related to reproductive liberties and justice, paying close attention to class, race, LGBTQ status, and disability rights.
Reckoning and Reconciliation: Art, Architecture, and Culture in Contested Sites and Bodies
2/19/2021
9:00:00 AM to 12:00:00 PM
Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy at the University of California, Irvine School of Law and the UConn Law School co- host Reckoning and Reconciliation: Art, Architecture, and Culture in Contested Sites and Bodies. This online symposium. will consist of three, hour-long panels related to art, architecture, and culture respectively.
Additional details: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/reckoning-reconciliation-art-architecture-culture-in- contested-sites-tickets-140451079961
Race, Sex, and Policing
2/8/2021
10:00:00 AM to 11:00:00 AM
CBGHP and ACLU-MN present "Race, Sex, and Policing" the second in a four part series
This program is part of a four-part 2021 series: Advancing Women's Equality: Confronting Barriers to Full Inclusion and Progress. In this series, we address women's status in the United States through a civil liberties lens, examining how histories of race, sex, immigration, and LGBTQ discrimination undermine constitutional equality. The series identifies historic and contemporary legal and social barriers to women's advancement and identifies pathways forward.
Our program on February 8, 2021, Race, Sex, and Policing in America features Michele Goodwin (ACLU of MN and National Executive Committee Member); Nusrat Choudhury, the Roger Pascal Legal Director of the ACLU of Illinois; Amy Fettig, the Executive Director of the Sentencing Project; and Judge Glenda Hatchett, former Chief Presiding Judge and department head of one of the largest juvenile systems in the nation.
Their conversation will grapple with the historic and modern-day challenges involving women, policing, and incarceration. What are the lessons that can be learned from a history of policing rooted in race and sex discrimination? How have money-bail systems affected women? How does policing affect women even after they've been incarcerated, such as in cases of solitary confinement? This program addresses the glaring lack of consideration given to how policing is perceived, which results in rendering women invisible as victims and targets in the criminal justice system.
Advancing Women's Equality "Women, Mass Incarceration and Criminal Justice"
1/13/2021
10:00:00 AM to 11:00:00 AM
U.S. prisons, detention centers, and jails can be deadly for women. Physical and sexual violence and medical neglect are common experiences for incarcerated women.
Women, Mass Incarceration, and Criminal Justice, features a robust discussion about how mass incarceration affects women's lives, including their reproductive health and rights. They explain how histories of racial and sexual discrimination result in the mass incarceration of vulnerable women and they explore the tragic consequences for incarcerated women, including shackling, forced sterilizations, denial of medical care, and sexual violence.
FEATURING:
- Aziza Ahmed, Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law
- Cynthia Chandler, ESQ., Co-Founder, Critical Resistance and Justice Now
- Michele Goodwin, ACLU of MN & National Board Executive Committee Member
- Erika Cohn, Documentary Filmmaker & Director Belly of the Beast
REGISTER at: https://bit.ly/37x3CUn
CBGHP | Women on the Frontlines: COVID and Beyond
10/30/2020
8:00:00 AM to 10:00:00 AM
This year, the Cornell Law Review will host, Women on the Frontlines: COVID and Beyond, an online symposium that examines the political, economic, social, and legal status of women. The symposium makes interventions along the lines of sex, race, and class to understand the persistence of women’s inequality and invisibility at a critical juncture in American history marked by both the 150th and 100th year anniversaries of the 15th and 19th Amendments, respectively, as well as troubling contemporary times demarcated by the COVID-19 pandemic, political turmoil, and racial unrest. As the authors show, the pandemic exacerbates underlying systemic patterns of discrimination against women.
The Cornell Law Review cultivates this special symposium at a critical juncture in American history and as such, brings to light the various ways in which women consistently labor and serve at the forefronts of society, constituting the foundation of essential workers, performing critical services from child to medical care. Yet, even during pandemic, women, especially women of color, suffer persistent economic constraints; health and death disparities; obstruction of rights; and the troubling perceptions of fungibility and expendability. The symposium takes up these compelling issues and more to elevate the discourse about the role of women and pathways toward a more just society.
Additional Details: https://bit.ly/375nJce
The 1619 Project: Intersecting Realities: Health, Race, and the Ongoing Legacies of Slavery and Jim Crow
10/15/2020
5:00:00 PM to 6:30:00 PM
Moderator: Gwendolyn R. Majette (Cleveland-Marshall College of Law)
Speakers:
• Sabrina Strings (Sociology)
• Candice Taylor Lucas (Health Sciences)
• Michele Goodwin (Law)
This event is 60 minutes and will include a Q&A session. For those who are interested, please stay for a bonus 30 minute facilitated discussion.
Discussion Facilitators:
• Srimayee Basu (English)
• Sherine Hamdy (Anthropology)
Suggested Podcast/Readings:
- The 1619 podcast episode 4: How the Bad Blood Started
- Janeen Interlandi, “Why doesn’t the United States have universal health care? The answer has everything to do with race,” pp. 44-45
- Linda Villarosa, “Myths about physical racial differences were used to justify slavery - and are still believed by doctors today," pp. 56-57
- Khalil Gibran Muhammad, “The sugar that saturates the American diet has a barbaric gustiest as the ‘white gold’ that fuels slavery," pp. 70-77
To read the 1619 Project, see: (www.pulitzercenter.org/sites/default/files/full_issue_of_the_1619_project.pdf) To access the podcasts, see: (https://guides.lib.uci.edu/oceanproject)
To participate in The 1619 Project in 2020: Student Showcase (one minute reflection videos eligible for gift card drawings), see: bit.ly/1619Showcase
The 1619 Project in 2020
#UCI1619Project
The 1619 Project, published by the New York Times, retells the history of the U.S. by foregrounding the arrival 401 years ago of enslaved Africans to Virginia. Through a series of essays, photos, and podcasts, the 1619 Project charts the impact of slavery on the country’s founding principles, economy, health care system, racial segregation of neighborhoods and schools, popular music and visual representations. Conversations around the 1619 project have served as a flashpoint for intensive ideological debates about its content and impact. It has been both widely lauded and subjected to critiques from academics, journalists, pundits and policymakers who challenge its accuracy and its interpretation of history. Conservative politicians even seek to defund schools that teach the project. What is the power of the 1619 Project to reframe our understanding of U.S. history and our contemporary society? How might we go beyond the 1619 Project to develop an even fuller understanding of the centrality of slavery and race in the U.S. and in the broader Atlantic world? Join us for month plus exploration of The 1619 Project, which culminates in the visit of Nikole Hannah- Jones, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of the project.
The 1619 Project series is presented by UCI Humanities Center and is co-sponsored by: UCI Illuminations: The Chancellor’s Arts & Culture Initiative, UCI Black Thriving Initiative, School of Humanities, Claire Trevor School of the Arts, School of Education, School of Law, School of Social Ecology, School of Social Sciences, UCI Libraries, Academic English, Composition Program, Center for Latin American Studies, Center on Law, Equality, and Race, Center for Medical Humanities, International Center for Writing and Translation, Literary Journalism and Center for Storytelling, Office of Inclusive Excellence, Student Affairs, Staff Assembly, AAPI Womxn in Leadership and Academic and Professional Women of UCI.
COVID-19 Presentation & Panel: SCRC Experts Address COVID-19 Pandemic
5/14/2020
7:00:00 PM to 8:00:00 PM
Virtual Presentation
Thursday, May 14, 2020
7PM - 8PM, PST
Facebook: www.facebook.com/UCIStemCell
YouTube: www.youtube.com/user/UCITLTC
You do not need to join/log into Facebook or Youtube to access the livestream.
For SCRC COVID-19 news, visit www.stemcell.uci.edu/News/covid_19 _news.php.
Featuring:
Ming Tan, MD
Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases
Microbiology & Molecular Genetics
Introduction to SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19
Ed Monuki, MD, PhD
Professor and Chair
Pathology & Lab Medicine
Current Status of Testing for COVID-19
Michele Goodwin, JD, LLM, SJD
Chancellor's Professor
Director, Center for Biotech & Global Health Policy
Bioethics of Reopening Society
Daniela Bota, MD, PhD
UCI ASCC Director
Senior Associate
Dean for Clinical Research
COVID-19 Clinical Trial Landscape
Gross Hall: A CIRM Institute | www.stemcell.uci.edu
COVID-19 & the Law: Quarantine and the Limits of Government Action
5/13/2020
5:00:00 PM to 6:00:00 PM
Join us on May 13th at 5:00 PM (PST), in an intellectual webinar featuring UCI Law Prof. Michele Goodwin and moderated by UCI Foundation Chair, and UCI Law Board of Visitor Member, Julie Hill. Topic: "Quarantine and the Limits of Government Action."
CLE credit available.
Webinar details will be emailed to those who RSVP.
CBGHP Live Panel Discussion: Reproductive Health & Rights in a Time of Coronavirus
5/12/2020
5:00:00 PM to 6:00:00 PM
Reproductive Health and Rights in the Time of COVID
With the Supreme Court on the verge of deciding the fate of Roe v. Wade, with opponents of reproductive rights exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic to further deny access to abortion and birth control, and with pregnant women in the U.S. at increased risk of dying, our hour-long discussion about the impact of this global pandemic on reproductive health and rights - May 12th (8 p.m. ET/ 5 p.m. PT) - is a MUST WATCH EVENT.
Civia Tamarkin, director, Birthright: A War Story, will be joined by:
- Michele Goodwin, author of Policing the Womb: Invisible Women and the Criminalization of Motherhood, Chancellor’s Professor of Law at the University of California, Irvine
- Mary Ziegler, author of Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v Wade to the Present and professor at Florida State University College of Law, specializing in the legal history of reproduction, the family, sexuality, and the Constitution
- Dr. Amy Addante, OB/GYN, Physicians for Reproductive Health Leadership Training Academy
Confronting Maternal Mortality
3/11/2020
6:00:00 PM to 7:30:00 PM
Feminist Majority Foundation
433 South Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills, CA 90212
This event takes place off campus.
Maternal mortality is a devastating issue, which now disproportionately affects American women. The United States now leads the developed world as the nation with the highest rate of maternal deaths. In fact, Texas is considered the deadliest place in all of the developed world for a pregnant woman. The rate of maternal deaths in the United States surpasses England, Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, Canada, and all other peer nations. Indeed, the United States ranks among a very small set of nations where the maternal mortality rate has actually increased in recent years. For women of color, the dangers of carrying a pregnancy to term is even more grave. Black women are 3.5 times more likely on average to die during or shortly after giving birth than their white counterparts. In some southern states, pregnant Black women are five to seventeen times more likely to die than their white counterparts due to maternal mortality.
This important arm-chair discussion brings the urgency of these matters into focus. Moderated by Chancellor's Professor Michele Goodwin, we will be joined by esteemed guests whose personal experiences and expertise help to inform the content and contexts of these issues.
A Conversation on Protecting Civil Rights and Civil Liberties in Times of Political Crisis
3/5/2020
4:00:00 PM to 6:30:00 PM
Beckman Center
100 Academy Way
Saving Lives Through Gun Violence Restraining Orders
2/28/2020
12:00:00 PM to 5:00:00 PM
401 E. Peltason Drive, Suite 1000, Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Co-sponsored by Brady Orange County, UCI Law, UCI Initiative to End Family Violence, and UCI Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy
You can always give back a gun, but you can’t give back a life: that’s the principle behind Gun Violence Restraining Order (GVRO) laws. This little-known and recently enacted tool enables the people closest to someone in crisis to act before tragedy strikes. GVROs (often called “extreme risk protection orders”) provide family members, household members, and law enforcement with a civil court process for temporarily removing firearms and ammunition from someone who poses a significant risk of harm to themselves or others. GVROs, which also prohibit firearm purchases for the duration of the order, are intended to create safer circumstances for individuals at risk of harm to seek treatment and access resources while preventing firearm fatalities.
This conference recognizes the uniquely American epidemic of gun violence and how easy access to firearms is a significant risk factor for injury and death, particularly for individuals in crisis. Researchers and practitioners from across California will explore opportunities and challenges to utilizing GVROs, including in the context of family violence, and potential for the GVRO remedy to save countless lives.
Keynote Speaker
Dr. Amy Barnhorst
Vice Chair for Community Mental Health
UC Davis Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Featured Speakers
Nicole R. Crosby
Chief Deputy City Attorney
San Diego City Attorney’s Office
John C. Hemmerling
Assistant City Attorney
San Diego City Attorney’s Office
Jane Stoever
Clinical Professor of Law
Director, Domestic Violence Clinic
Director, UCI Initiative to End Family Violence
UCI School of Law
Julia Weber
Gun Violence Restraining Order Implementation Fellow
Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence
Camiella Williams
Trustee
Prairie State College
National Organizer
Fight4AFuture Network
Lunch and refreshments will be provided. This event is free and open to the public. UCI guest parking is $2/hour. To request reasonable accommodations for a disability, please contact centers@law.uci.edu.
4.0 hours of MCLE credit approved by the State Bar of California. UCI School of Law is a State Bar-approved MCLE provider.
Borders & Belonging: Can a Woman be Elected President? A Conversation that Matters
2/18/2020
11:30:00 AM to 1:00:00 PM
HG 1010 and 1030
2020 is the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote in the United States. But, what is the difference between having the legal right to suffrage (for some women) and the actual practice of political power? Join us for the "Conversations that Matter: Borders & Belonging" Series, sponsored by the UCI Humanities Center.
11:30 Lunch in HG 1010 (Please rsvp by February 11: bit.ly/MsPresident)
Noon, HG 1030 Roundtable Conversation
Susan Masten, Current Vice- Chair and former Chair of the Yurok Tribe, past President of the National Congress of American Indians, Founder and Co-President of Women Empowering Women for Indigenous Nations
Melissa Ramoso, UCI Alumna, "proud Filipino American," only female council member of Artesia City, and State Chair of the Asian Pacific Islander Caucus of the California Democratic Party
Kaaryn Gustafson, UCI Professor of Law and Associate Dean of Academic Community Engagement
Co-sponsored by Womxn's Hub, Center on Law, Equality, and Race, Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy, Office of Inclusive Excellence, Asian American Pacific Islander Staff Association, AAPI Womxn in Leadership, Academic & Professional Women of UCI, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and Illuminations
CBGHP Colloquia - Book Talk with Christopher Lehman
2/13/2020
12:00:00 PM to 1:00:00 PM
401 E. Peltason Drive, Suite 1000, Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Join Chancellor's Professor Michele Goodwin and Professor Christopher P. Lehman in conversation about his latest book, Slavery's Reach: Southern Slaveholders in the North Star State, which explores the flow of money from southern slave plantations to Minnesota’s business and real estate properties, exposing the hidden history of northern complicity in building slaveholder wealth.
After the event, copies of Professor Lehman’s book will be available for purchase and signing.
Christopher P. Lehman is a professor of ethnic studies at St. Cloud State University and currently serves as chair of the Department of Ethnic, Gender, and Women's Studies. In the summer of 2011, he was a visiting scholar at Harvard University for the National Endowment for the Humanities's Institute "African American Struggles for Freedom and Civil Rights, 1865-1965." He is the author of six books, the most recent of which is "Slavery's Reach: Southern Slaveholders in the North Star State."
This event is free and open to the public.
Light lunch will be served.
Please RSVP, as space is limited.
An Intimate Conversation With Ruha Benjamin On Race & Technology
2/8/2020
11:30:00 AM to 1:00:00 PM
Feminist Majority Foundation
433 South Beverly Drive Beverly Hills, CA 90212
Join the California Women's Law Center & The Center for Biotechnology & Global Health Policy for an intimate conversation with Ruha Benjamin
About this Event
Professor Ruha Benjamin will speak on artificial intelligence and its implications for democracy, race, and empowerment. Her work investigates the social dimensions of science, medicine, and technology with a focus on the relationship between innovation and inequity, health and justice, knowledge and power. Dr. Ruha Benjamin is Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and founder of the JUST DATA Lab. She is the author of People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier (2013) and Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (2019) https://www.ruhabenjamin.com/
Since its founding in 1989, the California Women’s Law Center (CWLC) has served as a unique advocate in California, working in collaboration with allies to protect, secure, and advance the comprehensive civil rights of women and girls, with a particular emphasis on low-income women and girls. CWLC has unparalleled expertise in women’s legal issues and has been a champion for effective strategies to protect and advance women’s rights. CWLC has advocated for and achieved policy change on a wide range of issues including gender discrimination and equality, Title IX enforcement, women’s health and reproductive justice, economic security, and violence against women.
"A New Jim Code: Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life"
2/7/2020
2:00:00 PM to 3:00:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Ruha Benjamin
Associate Professor of African American Studies
Princeton University
Talk Abstract
From everyday apps to complex algorithms, technology has the potential to hide, speed, and even deepen discrimination, while appearing neutral and even benevolent when compared to racist practices of a previous era. In this talk, I present the concept of the “New Jim Code" to explore a range of discriminatory designs that encode inequity: by explicitly amplifying racial hierarchies, by ignoring but thereby replicating social divisions, or by aiming to fix racial bias but ultimately doing quite the opposite. We will also consider how race itself is a kind of tool designed to stratify and sanctify social injustice and discuss how technology is and can be used toward liberatory ends. This presentation takes us into the world of biased bots, altruistic algorithms, and their many entanglements, and provides conceptual tools to decode tech promises with sociologically informed skepticism. In doing so, it challenges us to question not only the technologies we are sold, but also the ones we manufacture ourselves.
Speaker Bio
Dr. Ruha Benjamin is Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University, founder of the JUST DATA Lab, and author of People’s Science: Bodies and Rights on the Stem Cell Frontier (2013) and Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code (2019) among other publications. Her work investigates the social dimensions of science, medicine, and technology with a focus on the relationship between innovation and inequity, health and justice, knowledge and power. Professor Benjamin is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including from the American Council of Learned Societies, National Science Foundation, Institute for Advanced Study, and the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton. For more info visit www.ruhabenjamin.com.
Presented by UCI Law Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy and UCI Department of Informatics.
This event is free and open to the public.
Reception will follow the talk. Light refreshments will be served.
Please RSVP, as space is limited.
CBGHP Colloquia - Book Talk with Aziza Ahmed
1/23/2020
12:00:00 PM to 1:00:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Join Chancellor's Professor Michele Goodwin and Professor Aziza Ahmed for a discussion of her forthcoming book, Feminism's Medicine: Law, Risk, Race, and Gender in an Epidemic. Against a linear narrative of scientific discovery and progress, Feminism’s Medicine argues that it was women’s rights lawyers and activists that fundamentally altered the legal and scientific response to the epidemic by changing core conceptions of who was at risk of contracting HIV.
Aziza Ahmed is Associate Professor of Law at Northeastern School of Law. She is an expert in health law, human rights, property law, international law, and development. Her interdisciplinary scholarship focuses on issues of both domestic and international law.
This event is free and open to the public.
Light lunch will be served.
Please RSVP, as space is limited.
Intimate Lies and the Law - Book Talk with Jill Hasday & Michele Goodwin
10/21/2019
2:00:00 PM to 3:00:00 AM
401 E. Peltason Drive, Suite 1000, Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Join Michele Goodwin and Jill Elaine Hasday for a provocative book talk on intimate lies, where Professor Hasday systematically examines deception in sexual, marital, and familial relationships. She uncovers the hidden body of law that shields intimate deceivers from legal consequences.
After the event, copies of Professor Hasday's book, Intimate Lies and the Law, will be available for purchase and signing.
Presented by the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy, and its Reproductive Justice Initiative.
This event is free and open to the public.
Please RSVP, as space is limited.
Simon Tam & Michele Goodwin in Conversation
10/18/2019
12:00:00 PM to 1:00:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Join Simon Tam and Michele Goodwin in conversation about the First Amendment, race, intellectual property, and taking on the government. Simon Tam is an acclaimed author, musician, activist, and troublemaker. Tam is best known as the founder and bassist of The Slants, the world’s first and only all-Asian American dance rock band. As the named party in one of the most high-profiled intellectual property law cases in modern history, Tam offers a unique and nuanced perspective about his legal journey from the applicant’s point of view. Michele Goodwin is a Chancellor’s Professor at the University of California Irvine, an Executive Committee Member of the American Civil Liberties Union, and author of the forthcoming book, Policing The Womb.
After the event, copies of Simon Tam's memoir, Slanted: How an Asian American Troublemaker Took on the Supreme Court, will be available for purchase and signing.
Presented by the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy, as part of its Constitutional Book Talks Series for 2019-2020.
Co-sponsored by the UCI Intellectual Property, Arts, and Technology Clinic.
This event is free and open to the public. Lunch will be provided,
Please RSVP, as space is limited.
Sex, Society, & The Law Book Series Workshop: How To Publish Your Manuscript
8/21/2019
2:00:00 PM to 4:00:00 PM
Harvard University, Petrie-Flom Center, 23 Everett Street, Cambridge, MA 02138
Join Chancellor's Professor Michele Goodwin, the Senior and Founding Editor of Sex, Society, & The Law In The 21st Century (University of California Press) as she leads an intimate workshop on how to bring your manuscript to press. This workshop has limited seating and is especially geared toward newer voices interested in expanding their writing portfolios or moving their published articles, dissertations and theses into the broader academic market. The workshop will include advising on crafting the prospectus, sample chapters, and courting publishers. The session is hosted at Harvard University's Petrie Flom Center on Wednesday, August 21, 2019 from 2:00pm-4:00pm (EDT)
Professor Goodwin will also host private, one on one conversations with authors interested in pitching ideas for the series from 10am-1pm (EDT) on August 21, 2019. For a private meeting, please contact Brittany Taylor at: btaylor@law.uci.edu and register before August 16, 2019.
Film Screening: The Power to Heal
4/4/2019
11:45:00 AM to 1:15:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
Power to Heal is an hour long documentary that tells the story of the historic struggle to secure equal and adequate access to healthcare for all Americans. Central to the story is how a new national program, Medicare, was used to mount a dramatic, coordinated effort that desegregated thousands of hospitals across the country.
Our rescheduled date marks the 51st anniversary of Dr. King's death. Before he passed away, Dr. King shared, "Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane." We look forward to contributing to a more equitable conversation on health and healing. A light lunch will be provided.
Film Screening: "Birthright: A War Story"
3/19/2019
6:00:00 PM to 8:30:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
This feature length documentary highlights the vast array of reproductive healthcare restrictions across the country and how they have created barriers for pregnant women. It sheds light on the real healthcare crisis these laws create, as well as the criminalization of pregnant women. Civia Tamarkin, the director and executive producer, will join Professor Goodwin for a talkback discussion.
Film Screening: "62 Days"
3/14/2019
11:30:00 AM to 1:00:00 PM
University Club
801 E. Peltason Drive, Irvine, CA
62 DAYS is a 30 minute documentary film about Marlise Muñoz, a brain-dead pregnant woman whose family was forced to keep her on life support against her wishes. This film shows the human story behind the headlines, and shines a light on a controversial law.
Lunch included. Suggested donation $25.00
Reinventing ReEntry Workshop Simulation
2/22/2019
8:30:00 AM to 11:00:00 AM
University Club
801 E Peltason Dr Irvine, CA 92697
Please join us for a rare opportunity to learn how reentry from incarceration is experienced. In this award-winning simulation, participants experience the real-life opportunities and significant challenges of gaining reentry in society, from looking for jobs and housing to balancing a $25 per week food budget. Joined by Reinventing ReEntry founder and president, Sue Ellen Allen, we will strategize how to reduce barriers and create new pathways for opportunities.
Trauma, Policing & The 13th Amendment: The Long Arc to Freedom
2/22/2019
12:15:00 PM to 5:00:00 PM
401 East Peltason Drive Irvine, CA 92697-8000
This symposium reflects the growing national conversation about the harms imposed on families and communities from money bail and plea-bargaining to incarceration and reentry. Often, those who suffer the most are the economically vulnerable who lack the means to access justice. Very often, the most invisible will be women and girls.
Join us as we examine the systematization and institutionalization of policing, its origins, and modern impacts. Rooted in our exploration is the consideration of the 13th Amendment--its aspirational goals and flawed underpinnings. We consider how the legacy of the 13th Amendment both liberates through the abolition of slavery and yet serves as a tool to exploit the vulnerable by permitting slavery so long as an individual is convicted of a crime.
This symposium features two streams. First it highlights the devastating impact of trauma resulting from policing. We realize that policing is a broad term and we intentionally use it to reflect profiling, the surveillance of vulnerable communities, disparate police stops, frequent frisks, escalations that lead to arrests and even deaths, as well as abuse of prosecutorial discretion, resulting in additional institutional phenomenon with real-life consequences on the ground. Second, the symposium seeks to open a conversation about novel interpretations of the 13th Amendment.
Required Reading for CLE Credit
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Abel, Cops and Pleas - Police Officers' Influence on Plea Bargaining (PDF)
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Abel, Baston's Appellate Appeal and Trial Tribulations (PDF)
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Goodwin, Invisible Women: Mass Incarceration's Forgotten Casualties (PDF)
This event is approved for 4.0 hours of Continuing Legal Education Credit by the State Bar of California. UC Irvine School of Law is a State Bar-approved MCLE provider.