Lectures
Beginning in 2010, the Center on Law, Equality and Race has brought nationally recognized speakers to UCI Law.
Past Speakers
Meera E. Deo, Professor of Law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and the Director of the Law School Survey of Student Engagement (LSSSE), will discuss her book, Unequal...
Join us for a discussion with Stanford Professor Jennifer Eberhardt about her book, Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do. Dr....
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Paul Butler
February 13, 2018
UCI School of Law
The Albert Brick Professor in Law at Georgetown Law and former federal prosecutor discussed his book, Chokehold: Policing Black Men (The New Press, 2017), examining the systematic criminalization of African American men—in spite of empirical data demonstrating that they are not responsible for the majority of violent offenses—and the ways in which that system might be disrupted. Details > -
James Forman Jr.
September 27, 2017
UCI School of Law
The Professor of Law at Yale Law School discussed his book Locking up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2017), examining the aggressive policies adopted by African American government and law enforcement officials through the last half-century's "war on crime," and their lasting effects on black communities. Details > -
Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve
April 19, 2017
UCI School of Law
The Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Temple University discussed her book, "Crook County: Racism and Injustice in America's Largest Criminal Court," examining the culture of racial abuse in Chicago-Cook County Courthouse. Details> -
Angela Harris
March 10, 2016
UCI School of Law
The Distinguished Professor of Law, Boochever and Bird Endowed Chair for the Study and Teaching of Freedom of Equality at UC Davis School of Law, will present “From Equality to Freedom: Food, Sovereignty, and the New Black Agrarian Movement”
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Osagie K. Obasogie
November 10, 2015
UCI School of Law
The Professor of Law at UC Hastings College of Law will discuss his book, Blinded By Sight: Seeing Race through the Eyes of the Blind, awarded the 2015 Herbert Jacob Book Prize by the Law and Society Association. -
Russell Robinson
Friday, March 20, 2015
UCI School of Law
The Distinguished Haas Chair in LGBT Equity Professor of Law at UC Berkeley School of Law will present his paper "Divergent Identities," which argues that the debate over same-sex marriage and LGBT equality and inclusion more generally has incompletely and insufficiently considered the importance of gender. -
Tonya Brito
Friday, February 20, 2015
UCI School of LawThe Burrus-Bascom Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin Law School presented her paper, “I Do for My Kids: Negotiating Race, Class and Gender in Child Support Enforcement Proceedings.” Abstract >
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Daria Roithmayr
Friday, Nov. 21, 2014
UCI School of LawThe George T. and Harriet E. Pfleger Chair in Law (USC Law) discussed her book Reproducing Racism: How Everyday Choices Lock In White Advantage (NYU Press 2014).
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Ian F. Haney López
April 7, 2014
UCI School of LawThe John H. Boalt Professor of Law (Berkeley Law) discussed his newly released book, Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class (Oxford University Press 2014).
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Devon W. Carbado
Feb. 27, 2013
UCI School of LawThe UCLA Law professor discussed his book (with Duke Law Professor Mitu Gulati), Acting White?: Rethinking Race in Post-Racial America (Oxford University Press).
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Daniel Kanstroom
Oct. 25, 2012
UCI School of LawThe Boston College Professor of Law and Director of the International Human Rights Program discussed his book Aftermath: Deportation Law and the New American Diaspora (Oxford University Press).
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Kenji Yoshino
Jan. 13, 2011
UCI School of LawThe Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at NYU came to UCI Law as part of CLEAR’s lecture series “Unpacking Diversity.” Prof. Yoshino discussed his book, Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights (Random House 2006).