8:00 - 9:00 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:15 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks, room 1001
Titles of papers to be presented are listed where available.
9:15 - 11:00 a.m. Plenary Roundtable: History of ClassCrits, room 1001
Angela Harris
Martha Mahoney
Martha McCluskey
Athena Mutua
11:00 - 11:15 a.m. Break
11:15 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Concurrent Panels – Session 1
(1A) Tenure, Austerity, and Academic Freedom, room 1001
Chair, Martha McCluskey
Anthony Farley
Lucy Jewel
Christian B. Sundquist
Donna Young
(1B) Equitable Sharing, Distributing the Benefits and Detriments of Democratic Society, room 1002
Chair, Thomas Kleven
Thomas Kleven:
Equitable Sharing and Democratic Theory
Goldburn Maynard:
Is There a Consensus Among Americans as to the Ideal Distribution of Wealth by Race?
Charles Pouncy:
Equitable Sharing and the Institutions of Social Provisioning
Athena Mutua:
Commenter
Julie Nice:
Commenter
1:00 - 2:15 p.m. Lunch and Keynote Address, room 1001
Professor Kaaryn Gustafson on "Avoiding Distraction: Making Poverty, Precarity, and Vulnerability Central to Scholarly Work"
2:15 – 2:30 p.m. Break
2:30 - 4:00 p.m. Session 2 - Plenary
The Discourse of Racism and Inequality, room 1001
Chair, Tim Iglesias
Eleanor Marie Lawrence Brown:
The Blacks Who “Got Their Forty Acres”
Anthony Farley:
An Economic Theory of Race
Neil Gotanda:
Comparative Racialization - Subordinations, Technologies, Genealogies and Metrics
4:00 - 4:15 p.m. Break
4:15 - 5:45 p.m. Concurrent Panels – Session 3
(3A) Poverty Law & Social Mobility, room 1301
Chair, Jeffrey Selbin
Francine Lipman:
Deconstructing Poverty
Bertrall Ross:
Poverty Districts
Ezra Rosser:
New Poverty Law Textbook
Kenneth A. Stahl:
Mobility and Community in Urban Policy
Catherine Wilson:
Economic Justice and Student Loans: Preventing Student Loans from Crippling Social Mobility
(3B)
Laboring Beyond the Boundaries: How Law & Organizing Neglect Precarious Workers, room 1303
Chair, Veena Dubal
Catherine Albiston:
Social Barriers to Using Paid Family Leave
Ann C. McGinley:
We Are All Contingent: Institutionalizing Vulnerability in the U.S. Workforce
Sanjukta Paul:
Of Markets, Combinations, and Servants: Antitrust Liability for Concerted Action by Low-Wage Independent Contractor Workers
Leticia Saucedo:
Everybody in the Tent: Lessons from the Grassroots about Labor Organizing, Immigrants and Temporary Worker Policies
6:30 - 8:30 p.m. Reception and Dinner & Keynote, Buehler Alumni Center
Mayor Gayle McLaughlin of Richmond, California
7:30 - 8:15 a.m. Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 10:00 a.m. Concurrent Panels: Session 4
(4a) Neoliberalism: Concepts & Theories, room 1002
Chair, Danielle Hart
Tayyab Mahmud:
Capitalism and Precarity: A Permanent State of Exception
Manoj Mate & Seval Yildirim:
Development Clothed in Sacred Robes: Neoliberal Religious Parties and the Secular State
Martha McCluskey:
Precarity and Efficiency: Rationalizing Unequal Insecurity
(4B) California Advocates, room 1301
Chair, Jay Varellas
James Chavez, Trial Attorney, Federal Defenders of San Diego, Inc.
Erin Darling, Co-President, Los Angeles Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild
Sushil Jacob, Skadden Fellow and Staff Attorney, Green-Collar Communities Clinic, East Bay Community Law Center
Kathleen Morris, Founder, Progressive Cities Law and Policy Workshop, and Assistant Professor, Golden Gate University School of Law
David Waggoner, Managing Attorney, Homeless Action Center
(4C) Food Policy, room 1303
Chair, Angela Harris
Angela Harris:
Class on the Table: Food Justice and the End of Capitalism (As We Know It)
Marc-Tizoc Gonzalez:
Criminalizing Charity, Disciplining Solidarity: The Anti-Food Sharing Cases Under Neoliberal Austerity
Ernesto Hernandez-Lopez:
Banning Sriracha: Space, Race, and Class Exclusions in Greater L.A.
10:00 - 10:15 a.m. Break
10:15 - 11:45 a.m. Concurrent Panels – Session 5
(5A) Racial Progress?, room 1301
Chair, Athena Mutua
Leo P. Martinez: A More Perfect Union:
The Danger of Conflating Progress and Equality
Lisa Pruitt:
Acting White? Or Acting Affluent? A Book Review of Carbado & Gulati’s Acting White? Rethinking Race in “Post-Racial” America
Carlton Waterhouse:
See No Evil – Hear No Evil: Environmental Justice and Environmental Hegemony
(5B) Debt & Taxes
, room 1303
Chair, Darien Shanske
Lily Kahng:
The Not-So-Merry Wives of Windsor: The Taxation of Women in Same-Sex Marriages
James Puckett:
Taxing the (Upper Elite Platinum Plus) Middle Class
(5C)
The Precarity of Low-Wage Work: Reframing Challenges and Reconsidering Advocacy Approaches, room 1002
Chair, Julie Nice
Llezlie Green Coleman, American University Washington College of Law
Kathleen Kim, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
Jayesh Rathod, American University Washington College of Law
12:00 - 1:45 p.m. Lunch: Works in Progress, various rooms
Junior Works in Progress presenter and panel information available here
1:45 - 2:00 Break
2:00 - 3:30 p.m. Concurrent Panels – Session 6
(6A) Political Process, room 1301
Chair, Fred Smith
Atiba Ellis:
The Need to Mediate Future Racial Balkanization: A (Qualified) Defense of Race Conscious Approaches to Voting Rights
Timothy Kuhner:
Capitalism vs. Democracy
Hester Lessard:
Through the Neo-Liberal Looking Glass: Rights and Democratic Participation
(6B) Sex Discrimination Law, room 1303
Chair, Tucker Culbertson:
Otherwise of Sex: Notes Against Antidiscriminatory Metaphysics
Sarudzayi Matambanadzo:
The Four Worlds of Sex Discrimination Law
Laura Kessler:
Breaking Down Doctrinal Walls in Employment Discrimination Law
3:30 - 3:45 p.m. Break
3:45 - 5:15 p.m. Concurrent Panels – Session 7
(7A) The Foreclosure Crisis, Financial Regulation, and Inequality, room 1303
Chair, Martha Mahoney
Emma Coleman Jordan:
The Crisis
Dodd-Frank Ignored: Foreclosures, Inequality, and the Economic Injustice of Legal Uncertainty for Homeowners
Robert Hockett
Martha Mahoney & Julianne Bisceglia:
Lender Delay? The Surprising Role of Plaintiffs and Their Lawyers in the Foreclosure Backlog
Komal Vaidya:
Individual vs. Community Empowerment in the Foreclosure Crisis
(7B) Family Law, room 1301
Chair, Tonya Brito
Wendy Bach:
The Hyperregulatory State and the Submerged State: Exploring Structural Inequalities in U.S. Social Policy
Tonya Brito:
I Do for My Kids: Negotiating Race, Class and Gender in Child Support Enforcement Proceedings
Lisa Ikemoto:
Stratified Reproduction in a High Tech Market: Trust, Money, Gift, and Work in Surrogacy and Egg ‘Donation’
Julie Nice: Vergara
and the Vulnerability of Low-Income School Children
5:15 - 5:30 p.m. Break
5:30 - 7:00 p.m. Closing Plenary: Ripped from the Headlines, room 1001
Chair, Brian Soucek
Eleanor Brown
Kevin R. Johnson
Emma Coleman Jordan
7:00 - 7:15 p.m. Closing Remarks, room 1001