Reblaw 2010

RebLaw 2010 will be hosted at The Yale Law School from Friday, February 19 - Sunday, February 21, 2010. A more detailed schedule will be announced sometime in the upcoming months.

For an idea of what to expect, here is last year's schedule:

Friday, February 20, 2009

3:00-7:00 pm Registration
4:00-5:30 pm Round 1
  • Lost in a Haze: Legalization and the Drug  Reform Movement
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  • Trafficking and Exploitation in U.S. Labor  Markets
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  • Workshop: Strategies for Combating Police  Brutality
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    5:30-6:30 pm Happy Hour
    6:30-8:00 pm Keynote Speaker:
    Van Jones, President, Green For All
    8:00-10:00 pm Sweet Justice: A Celebration of Discourse, Dissent, and Dessert. Featuring DJ M-Hatch

    Saturday, February 21, 2009

    8:30 am Registration Reopens
    8:30-9:30 am Continental Breakfast
    9:30-11:00 am Round 2
  • Border Issues: Law on the Outskirts
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  • Conditions of Confinement: Using the Political  Process to Improve the Lives of Farm Animals
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  • Rejecting “Tough on Crime”: Fixing a Broken  Criminal Justice System
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  • Workshop: The Nuts and Bolts of FOIA
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    11:00-11:20 am Break
    11:30-1:00 pm Round 3
  • Evolving Understandings of Hate Crimes  Against Asian and Middle Eastern Americans in  Pre- and Post-9/11 America: Economic  Motivations and the Myth of the “Perpetual  Foreigner”
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  • Food Fight: Putting Food Policy and  Agricultural Law on the Table
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  • Intersex Infants: Genital Surgery and the Movement for Informed Consent
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  • Trading Handcuffs for Diplomas: Exploring Zero Tolerance, Special Education, and the School to Prison Pipeline
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  • Workshop: Combating the Chaos of  Immigration Raids: First Responder Training
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  • Workshop: Op-Ed Writing Deconstructed and  Demystified
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    1:00-2:30 pm Issue Lunches
    Space is limited. Register now.
    3:00-4:30 pm Round 4
  • The African Public Interest Lawyer: Rebellious  Lawyering on the Continent
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  • Changing Parole Policy: A Collaborative Effort  Between Lawyers, Prisoners, and Government  Officials
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  • Out of Iraq: Advocacy and the Refugee Crisis
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  • Sex Sells, But Should We Sell Sex?
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  • Workshop: Representing Rebels: Civil  Disobedience and Legal Advocacy
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    4:30-4:50 pm Break
    5:00-6:30 pm Keynote Speaker:
    Stephen Bright, President, Southern Center for Human Rights
    6:45-8:00 pm Networking Dinners: Register now. Space is limited for dinners at New Haven restaurants with invited speakers. You will sign-up for specific dinners at the conference. ($8-12)
    8:00-10:00+ pm Party with a Cause
    BAR Nightclub, 254 Crown St., New Haven, CT
    Get your rebel rock on: Kittens Ablaze, a six-piece Americana indie-folk band from Brooklyn and recent favorite of mtvU, is stopping through to play Reblaw on their national tour.

    Sunday, February 22, 2009

    10:00-11:30 am Farewell Brunch