Junior Works in Progress

Junior Works in Progress panels will be held on the conference's second day, Saturday, November 15, between 12:00noon - 1:45p.m. Junior Works in Progress schedule is subject to change.

PANEL 1 - Room 1001
ClassCrits and Reforming Legal Education

John Bliss

Privilege, Identity, and Public Interest Drift in Law School

Lead discussant: Lucy Jewel

Sushil Jacob et al. (Coauthors: Michael Haber & Gowri Krishna)

Community Economic Development: Clinical Pedagogy for the New Democratic Economy

Lead discussant: Mary Louise Frampton

PANEL 2 - Room 1001
The Corporation and Its Discontents

Christine Bartholomew

Redefining Prey and Predator in Class Actions

Lead discussant: Vik Amar

Kathleen Morris

The City Lawyer as Advocate for Economic Justice: The Promise and Challenges of City Law Departments Seeking to Halt Corporate Malfeasance

Lead discussant: Darien Shanske

PANEL 3 - Room 1002
Private and Public: Governance in the Neoliberal State

Mary Pareja

Beyond the Affordable Care Act’s Premium Tax Credit: Expanding Protection for Domestic Abuse Victims

Lead discussant: Lily Kahng

Neil Sobol

Charging the Poor: Modern-Day Debtors’ Prisons

Lead discussant: Carlton Larson

Bela August Walker

When the State Decides Parental Status

Lead discussant: Tonya Brito

PANEL 4 - Room 1301
Collectivity, the Commons, and Community Activism

Elizabeth Carter

Community Sharing, Sharing Law and the Creation of Intentional Communities: Promoting Alternative Economies and Economic Self-Sufficiency among Low-Income Communities

Lead discussant: Kenneth Stahl

Shelley Cavalieri

Theorizing Land Reform

Lead discussant: Carlton Waterhouse

PANEL 5 - Room 1301
Identity and Inequality

Michelle Ewart

Hypocrisy in Housing: How Federal Housing Policy Violates Fair Housing Principles

Lead discussant: Mario Barnes

Michele L. Statz

Chinese Difference and Deservedness: The Paper Lives of Immigration Law

Lead discussant: Neil Gotanda

PANEL 6 - Room 1303
Critiquing Law & Economics

Eric George

Income Distribution in a “Non-Redistributive State”: The (Relative) Disappearance of Equalizing Adjudication 1980 to Present

Lead discussant: Danielle Hart

David Waggoner

A Cloud on the Title: Class and Property in the United States

Lead discussant: Thomas Joo

PANEL 7 - Room 1303
The Politics of Transnational Work and Labor

Rana Jaleel

The Wages of Human Trafficking

Lead discussant: Athena Mutua

Vasanthi Venkatesh

Permanent Impermanence: Precarious Labor Migration and the Legal Construction of Temporariness

Lead discussant: Veena Dubal

PANEL 8 - Room 1320
Wages and Work

Matthew Fritz-Mauer

Worker’s Rights and Wage Theft: The Practical Application of California’s “Employee-Friendly” Labor Laws

Lead discussant: Saru Matambanadzo

Julia Tomassetti

FedEx and its “Independent Contractors”

Lead discussant: Bertrall Ross