Rebellious Lawyering Conference


2008 Conference Schedule
Friday, February 22
3:00-7:00	Registration
4:00-5:30	Emerging Issues in Environmental Justice Advocacy Immigration Detention Conditions: Challenging the System
5:00-6:30	Happy hour with food (must be over 21 to attend)

6:30	Keynote Address: William P. Quigley

9:30 on ...	Party!!

Saturday, February 23
8:30am	Registration opens again
9:00-10:30	'Make Them Go Away:' The Supreme Court, the Court of Public Opinion, and the Backlash Against the Americans with Disabilities Act The Convention on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD): Race and the State of the Union Blurring the Lines Between Labor and Employment Law What is Progressive Family Lawyering?: Lessons from the Field
10:30-11:00	Coffee Break
11:00-12:30	Election 2008: The Ongoing Struggle for Minority Ballot Access The War Against the War on Drugs: Just Say Yes to Decriminalization Seeking Shelter and Protection: Class-Action Advocacy for the Homeless Workshop: Transgender Issues and the Law
12:45-2:15	Focus Group Lunches (Must Sign Up)
2:30-4:00	Federally Funded Ignorance: How Abstinence-Only Sex Education Fails Students Hospital Flight from Minority Neighborhoods Human Rights and Corporate Accountability in the Global Economy
4:00-4:30	Snack Break
4:30-6:00	No More 'High-Tech Lynchings:' Reforming the Judicial Appointment Process Challenging Immigration Raids Prison Abolition: An Introduction to the Theory and Praxis of the New Abolitionists Animal Rights and Animal Wrongs

6:30	Dinner and Feature Film: Brick by Brick, followed by a question and answer session with Bill Kavanagh, Brick-by-Brick Filmmaker, and Gene Capello, Attorney, Yonkers Resident, and Community Activist

9:30	*Party* (must be over 21 to attend)