Schedule and Speakers

Thursday, April 16, 2009

2:00 pm - 5:00 pm: Room 108	Registration
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm: Room 127	Opening Remarks by Derrick Bell, NYU School of Law Keynote address by Ian Haney López, Boalt School of Law Post-Racial Racism: Policing Race in the Age of Obama

Friday, April 17, 2009

8:30 am – 9:30 am: Room 122	Coffee and Registration
9:30 am – 9:45 am: Room 127	Introductory Remarks by Acting Dean Kate Stith Conference Welcome by Sarah Mehta (YLS '09) & Margot Mendelson (YLS '09)
9:45 am - 11:15 am: Room 127	Panel 1: Critical Race Studies: Past Promises, Future Prospects Panel 1 examines the current state of critical race studies as an academic field and the extent to which it has succeeded in shaping legal practice. The panel will discuss the fundamental insights of CRT, how the field has changed and developed over time, and its current concerns and applications. The panel will explore whether CRT is the appropriate framework with which to understand questions of race and the law today, and in particular, how CRT both informs and is informed by legal practice. - Frances Ansley, University of Tennessee Knoxville College of Law - Margaret E. Montoya, University of New Mexico School of Law - Angela Onwuachi-Willig, University of Iowa College of Law - Moderator: Harlon L. Dalton, Yale Law School
11:20 am – 12:50 pm: Room 127	Panel 2: Critical Reflections on Contemporary Immigration Law Panel 2 will focus on immigration and nationality law as a case-study for the practical application and implications of critical race theory. Panelists will discuss the role of immigration law in creating and imposing legal (and illegal) identities, the ways in which myths and narratives of national identity are articulated and performed through the practice of immigration law. This panel will assess the particular challenges facing immigration lawyers in navigating the limited and potentially coercive identity narratives available to their clients. - Muneer I. Ahmad, Washington College of Law, American University Law (Visiting Professor, Yale Law School, 2009) - Kevin R. Johnson, University of California, Davis Law School - Mae M. Ngai, Columbia University - Moderator: Michael Wishnie, Yale Law School
12:50 pm – 2:15 pm: Room 127	Lunchtime Address by Sheila Foster, Fordham Law School
2:15 pm – 3:45 pm: Room 127	Panel 3: Clinical Education: Integrating Theory and Practice Panel 3 will analyze the particular promise of legal education for producing lawyers who are both cognizant of structural discrimination in the law and also equipped with strategies to address racial injustice. The panelists will consider the gap between mainstream models of clinical education and the insights of critical legal theory, and will discuss how CRT might more effectively and meaningfully inform models of clinic education and public interest lawyering. - Anthony V. Alfieri, University of Miami School of Law - Sameer M. Ashar, CUNY School of Law - Kristin N. Henning, Georgetown University Law Center - Moderator: Hope R. Metcalf, Yale Law School
4:30 pm – 6:30 pm: 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm:	Conference Workshop Post-Workshop Dinner Following the conference, Yale Law School will host a workshop on clinical education, sponsored by Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, LLP. The workshop will enable law students and clinical faculty to engage in four small conversations related to clinical education, spanning issues of practice and pedagogy related to client identity and community representation. The workshop will be divided into four rooms, each covering one of the following topics: Prisoners Rights & Prison Reform, Domestic Violence & Family Law, Immigrant & Workers Rights, and Criminal Defense. Prior registration is required.