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 1001ClassCrits 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 1001The 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 1002Private 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 1301Collectivity, 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 1301Identity 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 1303Critiquing 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 1303The 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 1320Wages 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