Race Hate: The New Normal?
MAY 31 - JUNE 1, 2018
ALBANY LAW SCHOOL, ALBANY, NEW YORKDEAN ALEXANDER MOOT COURT ROOM
HAYWOOD BURNS-SHANARA GILBERT AWARD FOR OUTSTANDING ACTIVIST-TEACHER-SCHOLAR
Neil Gotanda
KELLIS E. PARKER KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Barbara Smith
THE 2018 JOINT CONFERENCE OF
The Northeast People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference (nepoc) and the Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty (capalf)
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THURSDAY, MAY 31 , 2018
8:45 am - 9:15 am REGISTRATION AND CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
9:15 am – 9:30 am WELCOME
9:30 am – 11:00 am OPENING PANEL: RACE HATE 2018
Moderator: Elaine Chiu, Professor of Law and Director, Ronald H. Brown Center for Civil Rights and Economic Justice, St. John’s University School of Law
Anthony Paul Farley, James Campbell Matthews Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence, Albany Law School
Neil Gotanda, Professor of Law, Western State College of Law
Vinay Harpalani, Associate Professor of Law, Savannah Law School
Pantea Javidan, Chair of Board of Directors, Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants
11:00 am- 11:10 am REFRESHMENT BREAK
11:10 am – 12:40 pm PANEL TWO: SPEECH IN A POST-TRUTH ERA
Moderator: Peter Halewood, Gov. George E. Pataki Professor of International Commercial Law, Albany Law School
Emily Houh, Gustavus Henry Wald Professor of Law and Contracts, University of Cincinnati College of Law
Anna Shavers, Cline Williams Professor of Citizenship Law, Nebraska Law School
Mona Washington, Playwright
Donna Young, President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy, Albany Law School
12:40 pm – 2:00 pm HAYWOOD BURNS & SHANARA GILBERT AWARD LUNCHEON
Professor Neil Gotanda, Professor of Law, Western State College of Law, Award Recipient
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm PANEL THREE: WOMEN & LEGAL ACTIVISM: FEMINISM, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS & RESISTANCE
Moderator: Deseriee Kennedy, Associate Dean of Diversity & Inclusion, Touro Law Center
Pamela Edwards, Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Diversity in the Legal Profession, CUNY School of Law
Taja-Nia Henderson, Professor, Rutgers Law School
Janell Hobson, Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University at Albany
Cheryl Packwood, Managing Partner of WE Communica-tions, Ltd and Former Overseas Representative for the Government of Bermuda
3:30 pm – 3:45 pm REFRESHMENT BREAK
3:45 pm – 5:15 pm PANEL FOUR: COLONIALISM AS CATASTROPHE: DISASTER RELIEF IN PUERTO RICO
Moderator: Deborah Post, Professor Emeritus of Law, Touro Law Center
Jodie Roure, Associate Professor, Latin American and Latina/o Studies Department, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
Jose Luis Vargas Tapia, Initiativa Communitaria Medical Brigade
6:30 pm – 9:30 pm DINNER: UMANA RESTAURANT & WINE BAR
AGENDA
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FRIDAY, JUNE 1 , 2018
8:00 am – 9:00 am REGISTRATION AND CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
9:00 am – 10:30 am PANEL FIVE: SALT AND NEPOC PANEL ON CHALLENGES FACING ADMINISTRATORS OF COLOR: DIVERSITY & INCLUSION IN HIGHER EDUCATION & LEGAL EDUCATION
Moderator: Matthew Charity, Co-President of SALT, Profes-sor of Law, Western New England University School of Law
Beryl Jones, Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School
Deseriee Kennedy, Associate Dean of Diversity & Inclusion, Touro Law Center
Teresa “Teri” Miller, Senior Vice Chancellor for Strategic Initiatives and Chief of Staff, State University of New York
Sudha Setty, Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Incoming Dean, Western New England University School of Law
10:30 am - 10:40 am REFRESHMENT BREAK
10:40 am – 12:10 pm PANEL SIX: NATIONAL SECURITY POLICY: EXTREME VETTING & MUSLIM BAN
Moderator: Margaret Hu, Associate Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University School of Law
Sahar Aziz, Professor and Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar; Director, Center for Security, Race & Rights, Rutgers University Law School
Peter Margulies, Professor of Law, Roger Williams University School of Law
Sudha Setty, Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Incoming Dean, Western New England University School of Law
12:10 pm – 2:00 pm LUNCH AND KELLIS PARKER KEYNOTE ADDRESS: “BLACK FEMINISM, COALITION BUILDING AND THE POOR PEOPLE’S CAMPAIGN: A NATIONAL CALL FOR MORAL REVIVAL”
Barbara Smith, Scholar, Writer, Activist; Founder of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm PANEL SEVEN: IMMIGRANT RIGHTS AS CIVIL RIGHTS AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Moderator: Christian B. Sundquist, Director of Faculty Research and Scholarship and Professor of Law, Albany Law School
Margaret Hu, Associate Professor of Law, Washington and Lee University School of Law
Anil Kalhan, Professor of Law, Thomas R. Kline School of Law, Drexel University
Peter Margulies, Professor of Law, Roger Williams University School of Law
Rick Su, Professor of Law, University of Buffalo School of Law
3:30 pm – 3:45 pm REFRESHMENT BREAK
3:45 pm – 5:15 pm WORKS IN PROGRESS
Room E115 - Vinay Harpalani, Associate Professor of Law, Savannah Law School, Equal Protection and the Problem of the Color Line
(Anthony Paul Farley, Commentator)
Room E116 - Alexis Kateron, Assistant Professor of Law, Director of the Constitutional Rights Clinic, Rutgers Law School, When Stop and Frisk Comes Home: Policing Public and Patrolled Housing
(Christian Sundquist, Commentator)
Room W120 - Julia Kosineski, 3L, Albany Law School, The Blacklash of the Death Penalty: Historically, Today, & What Tomorrow Will Look Like if Trump’s Plan to Extend the Death Penalty to Drug Traffickers is Implemented
(Taja-Nia Henderson, Commentator)
Room 200 - Cheryl Packwood, Former Overseas Representative for the Government of Bermuda, The Rule of Law and Business Ethics During Times of Conflict in Developing Countries: Are We Supposed to Work According to the Same Rules?
(Neil Gotanda, Commentator)
6:30 pm – 9:30 pm DINNER – HOME OF DONNA YOUNG AND PETER HALEWOOD
AGENDA
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HAYWOOD BURNS & SHANARA GILBERT AWARD
THURSDAY, MAY 31
The award is named for Professor and Dean Haywood Burns (CUNY Law School’s second Dean) and Professor Shanara Gilbert (the founder and co-director of CUNY Law School’s Defender Clinic) who were deeply committed to human rights and the struggle against racism and economic and social injustice.
AWARD RECIPIENT: PROFESSOR NEIL GOTANDA
NEIL GOTANDA is Professor of Law at Western State College of Law in Fullerton, California. He is a graduate of Stanford University, UC Berkeley School of Law and Harvard Law School. After graduating from Boalt, he was an attorney with the Asian Law Caucus, California Rural Legal Assistance and California Fair Employment and Housing Commission. At the Commission, he drafted the initial employment discrimination regulations.
He has written extensively on racial theory, critical race theory and Asian American jurisprudence. He was a participant in 1977 in the first Conference on Critical Legal Studies. He was a co-founder of the Conference on Critical Race Theory and developed the earliest courses on Asian American Jurisprudence. He was awarded the 1997 Clyde Ferguson Award by the Section on Minority Groups of the American Association of Law Schools. In the same year, the Asian American Law Journal
honored him with a Symposium Issue on his writings. In 2008, he delivered the inaugural Neil Gotanda Lecture in Asian American Jurisprudence of the Asian American Law Journal at Berkeley, California. In fall 2009, he was Fulbright Professor at Wuhan University School of Law in Wuhan, China. In 2012 he was named recipient of the inaugural Chris Kando Iijima Teacher and Mentor award by the Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty.
He has been a regular participant in the meetings of the Association for Asian American Studies since 1987. He has also attended meetings of the Asian Pacific American Religions Research Initiative.
He is co-editor with Kimberle Crenshaw, Gary Peller and Kendall Thomas of Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings that Formed the Movement (1995). His other publications include Other Non-Whites in American Legal History: A Review of “Justice at War,” (1985); A Critique of “Our Constitution is Color-Blind,” (1991); The Story of Korematsu: The Japanese American Cases in Constitutional Law Stories (2004); New Directions in Asian American Jurisprudence (2010); ), The Racialization of Islam (2011); Beyond Supreme Court Anti-Discrimination: an Essay on Racial Subordinations, Racial Pleasures and Commodified Race (2012). His most recent research has examined the Muslim category in American law.
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KELLIS E. PARKER KEYNOTE ADDRESS
FRIDAY, JUNE 1 , 2018
The Keynote Address is named for Kellis E. Parker who was one of five black students who integrated the University of North Carolina almost five decades ago and went on to become the first black law professor at Columbia University in 1972 and the first black professor to receive tenure at Columbia Law School. He was an outspoken advocate of ending racial discrimination in academia and embracing jazz as a framework for understanding law.
An accomplished trombonist, Professor Parker believed that black Americans, much like they did in jazz, improvised rules to ‘’deal with problems we were incurring in our lives.’’ He left Columbia in 1977 to become director of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc. and returned to Columbia a year later, while retaining
the position at the defense fund. In 1994, he was named to an endowed position, the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law.
BARBARA SMITH
Black Feminism, Coal i t ion Bui lding and the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Cal l for Moral Revival
BARBARA SMITH is an author, activist, and independent scholar who has played a groundbreaking role in opening up a national cultural and political dialogue about the intersections of race, class, sexuality, and gender. She was among the first to define an African American women’s literary tradition and to build Black women’s studies and Black feminism in the United States. She has been politically active in many movements for social justice since the 1960s.
She has edited three major collections about Black women: Conditions: Five, The Black Women’s Issue (with Lorraine Bethel, 1979); All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Brave: Black Women’s Studies (with Gloria T. Hull and Patricia Bell Scott, 1982); and Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, 1983. She is also the co-author with Elly Bulkin and Minnie Bruce Pratt of Yours in
Struggle: Three Feminist Perspectives on Anti-Semitism and Racism, 1984. She is the general editor of The Reader’s Companion to U. S. Women’s History with Wilma Mankiller, Gwendolyn Mink, Marysa Navarro, and Gloria Steinem, 1998. A collection of her essays, The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom was published by Rutgers University Press in 1998. Ain’t Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me Around: Forty Years of Movement Building with Barbara Smith, edited by Alethia Jones and Virginia Eubanks with Barbara Smith was published by SUNY Press in November, 2014.
She was cofounder and publisher until 1995 of Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, the first U.S. publisher for women of color. She resides in Albany, New York and served two terms as a member of the Albany Common Council from 2006 to 2013. In 2005 she was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
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PARTICIPANTS
SAHAR AZIZ is Professor of Law, Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar, and Middle East and Legal Studies Scholar at Rutgers University Law School. She is the founding director of the interdisciplinary Rutgers Center for Security, Race, and Civil Rights. She is also a faculty affiliate of the Department of Political Science at Rutgers University- Newark. She teaches courses on national security, critical race theory, evidence, torts, and Middle East law. Her book, The
Muslim Menace: The Racialization of Religion in the Post-9/11 Era is forthcoming with Harvard University Press. In 2015, Professor Aziz was named an Emerging Scholar by Diverse Issues in Higher Education and recipient of the Derrick Bell Award from the American Association of Law Schools Minority Section. In 2017, she was selected as the recipient of the Research Making an Impact Award by the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU).
MATTHEW CHARITY is a Professor of Law at Western New England University, and a proud co-President of the Society of American Law Teachers. Matthew writes on the relationship of governmental responsibility to marginalized groups, specifically in the context of war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. He has chaired the AALS Sections on Africa and International Law, and has served on the Executive Committees of the Sections on Law and South Asian
Studies, Comparative Law, and Human Rights. In addition to serving on the Board of SALT, Matthew chairs the Human Rights Commission of the Town of Amherst, MA, serves on the Western New England University Senate, and has previously worked with the SALT/LatCrit Faculty Development Workshop. He teaches International Law, International Criminal Law, Human Rights, Federal Criminal Law, Sales, and Contracts.
ELAINE M. CHIU is Professor of Law and Director of.the Ronald H. Brown Center of Civil Rights at St. John’s University School of Law in New York City. She is a respected scholar who has written about difficult issues in contemporary criminal justice including domestic violence laws, the intersection of cultural beliefs and criminal liability, and drug addiction in the war on drugs. At the Center, Professor Chiu’s
leadership focuses on diversity, equality and inclusion. The Center advances legal scholarship through the symposium issues and student notes of the Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development. The Center also works closely with law students on issues of racial, social and economic injustice through its Ron Brown Scholars program and the Coalition for Social Justice.
PAMELA EDWARDS Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Diversity in the Legal Profession, holds a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law and B.S. and M.B.A. degrees from New York University. She began her teaching career at Hofstra University School of Law and was named the Director of Multicultural Student Recruitment and Student Affairs. She has published in the areas of conflicts
of law, sports law, legal education, commercial law, and legal writing. At CUNY, she teaches Business Associations, commercial law courses, and Contracts. Her scholarly interests include critical race feminism, access to higher education and to legal services, and professional responsibility. She served as Acting Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2005-07.
ANTHONY PAUL FARLEY is the James Campbell Matthews Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence at Albany Law School. Farley was the Lassiter Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Kentucky and the Jefferson Endowed Chair in Trial Advocacy at Thurgood Marshall School of Law in 2014-2015, the Haywood Burns Chair in Civil Rights at CUNY School of Law in 2006, and a tenured professor
at Boston College Law School prior to Albany. Farley is a member of the American Law Institute. Farley’s recent work, Must Have Been Love, was published in Bandung, Global History and International Law: Critical Pasts and Pending Futures (Eslava et al. eds., Cambridge University Press: 2018), another project, The Future of Critical Race Theory, is forthcoming in the Yale Journal of Law & Feminism.
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PETER HALEWOOD is the Gov. George Pataki Distinguished Professor of International Commercial Law at Albany Law School where he teaches Property Law, International Business Transactions, International Trade Law, and International Human Rights Law. His research addresses international trade and commercial law, voting rights, race and
law, property rights and commodification, food insecurity and human rights law. He is Chair-Elect of the Association of American Law Schools Section on International Human Rights and is Affiliated Faculty and Advisory Board member at the University at Albany’s Global Institute for Health and Human Rights.
VINAY HARPALANI is Associate Professor of Law at Savannah Law School, where he teaches constitutional law, civil procedure, and employment discrimination. His scholarship examines race-consciousness from both constitutional and interdisciplinary perspectives. In 2018-19, he will teach at Drake University Law School and be a Visiting Scholar at the Drake
Constitutional Law Center. Professor Harpalani was the recipient of the 2017 Derrick A. Bell, Jr. Award from the AALS Section on Minority Groups; and the 2016 Society of American Law Teachers Junior Faculty Award. He earned his J.D. from NYU School of Law and his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
TAJA-NIA HENDERSON is Professor of Law at Rutgers Law School. Her scholarship focuses on the historical impact of punishment regimes on property systems in the U.S. She is particularly interested in the legal
histories of incarceration (including prisoner release and “reentry”) and chattel slavery. In 2016, she was a Fellow at the John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress.
JANELL HOBSON is an associate professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She is the author of Venus in the Dark: Blackness and Beauty in Popular Culture (Routledge, 2005, new edition forthcoming) and Body as Evidence: Mediating Race, Globalizing Gender (SUNY Press,
2012). She also writes and blogs for Ms. Magazine and authored several cover stories for the magazine, including” Beyoncé’s Fierce Feminism” (Spring 2013). Overall, Hobson uses a transnational lens to highlight women’s iconography and experiences in global or black diasporic perspective.
EMILY HOUH is the Gustavus Henry Wald Professor of the Law and Contracts at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, where she’s been teaching contracts, commercial law, and critical race theory since 2003. In 2018, Houh was awarded UC’s Distinguished Teaching Professor award and also was inducted into UC’s Fellows of the Graduate School. Much of her
scholarship focuses on how contract law and critical race theory intersect; her more recent research uses participatory action research methods to study and address predatory lending practices. Since 2010, Houh also has co-directed the College’s Center for Race, Gender, and Social Justice.
MARGARET HU is an Associate Professor of Law at Washington and Lee University School of Law. Her research interests include the intersection of immigration policy, national security, cybersurveillance, and civil rights. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Future of Privacy Forum, a non-profit think tank in Washington, D.C., that promotes responsible data privacy policies.
Previously, she served as senior policy advisor for the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and also served as special policy counsel in the Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices (OSC), Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice, in Washington, D.C. She is a Truman Scholar and a Foreign Language Area Studies Scholar.
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PANTEA JAVIDAN, JD, PhD, is Chair of the Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants, in Oakland, California, which serves survivors of war, torture, genocide and other forms of extreme trauma through therapeutic counseling, social services and legal
advocacy. She earned her PhD in Sociology at the London School of Economics in 2017, where her dissertation concerned the persistence of child criminalization and the re/production of inequalities in and through US laws regarding child sex trafficking.
BERYL JONES-WOODIN is a Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School. She was Dean of Student Affairs from 2006-13. She is Chair of the Law School’s Diversity Committee. She specializes in copyright law, art law, and professional responsibility.
Professor Jones-Woodin joined the faculty after serving as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Civil Division of the Eastern District of New York, and as law clerk to Judge A. Leon Higginbotham of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
ANIL KALHAN is a professor at the Thomas R. Kline School of Law, Drexel University and chair of the New York City Bar Association’s International Human Rights Committee. For the fall semester 2017-18, he was a visiting professor of law at Washington University School of Law in St. Louis, and during the spring semester 2017-18, he is an adjunct professor of Law at New York University School of Law. He also
is an affiliated faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania South Asia Center and a Faculty Advisory Board member for the Drexel University Center for Mobilities Research and Policy, and in both 2015 and 2017, he was in residence as a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law.
ALEXIS KARTERON is an assistant professor of law at Rutgers Law School and director of the law school’s Constitutional Rights Clinic. Her research addresses police practices, the Fourth Amendment, and the school-to-prison pipeline. Prior to joining the Rutgers faculty in 2016, Professor Karteron was a civil rights
attorney at the New York Civil Liberties Union and the NAACP Legal Defense & Educational Fund. She also served as the White House Associate Staff Secretary in 2009 and 2010. Karteron is a graduate of Stanford Law School and Harvard College.
DESERIEE KENNEDY is the Associate Dean of Diversity & Inclusion at Touro Law Center. She teaches in the areas of Family Law, Domestic Violence, Racism, and Civil Procedure. Prior to teaching, Kennedy was a City Solicitor for the City of Philadelphia and practiced law at Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz in Los Angeles. A 1987
graduate of Harvard Law School, Kennedy is a co-author of the New York Law Of Domestic Violence and has written a number of legal and interdisciplinary articles and book chapters on domestic violence, incarcerated mothers, and consumer racism.
JULIA KOSINESKI is a graduate of Cornell University and a rising 3L at Albany Law School. As a first-year student at Albany Law, she received Chief Judge Janet DiFiore’s Fellowship to work in public service at the Schenectady District Attorney’s Office. She was elected President of the Student Bar Association
for the 2018-19 term and the Symposium Editor for the Albany Law Journal of Science & Technology. She is interested in litigation and currently aspires to pursue a career in civil rights litigation. This summer she is working in Albany as a law clerk at McNamee Lochner P.C.
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PETER MARGULIES is a Professor of Law and teaches Immigration at Roger Williams University School of Law in Rhode Island. A graduate of Columbia Law School, he has directed the law school’s Immigration Clinic and covered President Trump’s immigration policy for the popular Lawfare blog. In the challenge to President Trump’s travel ban before the U.S. Supreme
Court, Professor Margulies served as co-counsel (along with Penn State’s Shoba Wadhia and Wilmer Hale attorney Alan Schoenfeld) for amici immigration law scholars arguing that the current ban exceeds the president’s power under the Immigration and Nationality Act.
TERESA MILLER, was UB’s vice provost for inclusive excellence and a member of the law faculty since 1995. She was recently named senior vice chancellor for strategic initiatives and chief of staff to SUNY Chancellor Kristina M. Johnson. In her new role at SUNY, Miller assists Johnson with leadership and direction of strategic initiatives. She is responsible for overseeing and managing the Office of the
Chancellor and serve as Johnson’s liaison with system administration’s executive team and campus leaders. Miller also coordinates and collaborates with staff at each campus, as well as with affiliated SUNY entities, government agencies, college councils and boards of trustees, professional associations and business partners.
CHERYL PACKWOOD was the Overseas Represen-tative for Bermuda to the US and the CEO/Deputy Chairman of Business Bermuda, where she devel-oped business globally for Bermuda. She was the General Manager of Digicel Bermuda and Director of Legal, Enforcement and International Affairs at the Bermuda Monetary Authority. Ms. Packwood has extensive international experience having worked in Africa with Western Wireless International where she
was the Managing Director of Cora in Cote d’Ivoire. As the first woman head of a telphone company in Africa, she pioneered GSM cellular in Africa. Before joining Western Wireless, Ms. Packwood built an internation-al practice at N’Goan, Asman et Associés in Abidjan. She sits on the board of Colonial Group Internation-al and serves on the Rhodes Board in Bermuda. Ms. Packwood graduated from Yale University (BA) and Harvard Law School (JD).
DEBORAH W. POST is Professor Emeritus at Touro Law Center Jacob D. Fuchsberg School of Law. She graduated cum laude from Hofstra University with a major in Anthropology and took a job first as an editorial assistant and then as a teaching assistant to Margaret Mead, the noted anthropologist, before attending Harvard Law School. In the academic year 1994-95 she was a visiting professor at Syracuse
Law School. In 2000 she was Distinguished Visiting Professor at DePaul Law School. Professor Post has written extensively in what she considers her three areas of expertise: business associations, legal education and critical race theory. Professor Post seeks to apply an anthropologist’s sensibilities and methodologies to the study of law.
JODIE ROURE, JD, PhD is an Associate Professor in the Latin American and Latina/o Studies Department, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY where she has taught for 18 years. She is the lead organizer, founder, and CEO of Hurricane Maria Assistance & Relief Institutional Alliance, Inc. Hurricane MARIA, formerly known as Doctors for Maria Relief, which was incorporated for the charitable purpose of aiding persons who are victims of natural disasters occurring in Puerto Rico or elsewhere in the Caribbean and has
remained active since Hurricane Maria. In October, 2017, Dr. Roure, after having endured the wrath of Hurricanes Irma and Maria, led an initial humanitarian aid medical relief effort which provided medical services, food, and other donation relief throughout the island of Puerto Rico with over 25 doctors, nurses, and other volunteers from across the United States and has since been actively coordinating and providing many types of humanitarian assistance to the islands.
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RICK SU is a professor of law at University at Buffalo School of Law, where he writes and teaches in the areas of local government law, immigration, and federalism. Su received his B.A. from Dartmouth College in 2001 and his J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2004. Before joining the faculty at the University at
Buffalo, he clerked for Hon. Stephen Reinhardt on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and worked in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and Washington University at St. Louis School of Law.
SUDHA SETTY is the incoming dean and a Professor of Law at Western New England University School of Law. She teaches constitutional law, national security law, and related subjects. She was recognized in 2015 as a Trailblazer by the South Asian Bar Association of Connecticut, and received the 2017 Tapping Reeve Legal Educator Award from the Connecticut Bar Association. Dean Setty is an expert in comparative separation of powers, rule of law, and national security. Her recent book is National Security
Secrecy: Comparative Effects on Democracy and the Rule of Law (Cambridge University Press 2017). She currently serves on the editorial board of the Journal of National Security Law and Policy and the executive committee of the American Society of Comparative Law. She was a visiting scholar at the University of Cape Town Faculty of Law in 2018, a Fulbright Senior Specialist at the Chinese University of Hong Kong Faculty of Law in 2014, and a visiting professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law in 2011.
ANNA WILLIAMS SHAVERS is the Cline Williams Professor of Citizenship Law at the UNL Law College. She joined the faculty in 1989 and has served as Interim Dean and Associate Dean for Faculty. In July 2018 she will assume the position of Associate Dean for Diversity and Inclusion. Professor Shavers teaches Administrative Law; Immigration Law; Forced Migration (including Human Trafficking); International Gender Issues; and Gender, Race and Class. Shavers was elected to the American Law Institute (ALI) in December 2017. She was also recently appointed as
a public member to the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS). She has previously served as Chair of the American Bar Association (ABA) Administrative Law Section, the Secretary and Publication Chair, a Council Member and Immigration Committee Chair of the ABA Administrative Law Section, and Chair of the AALS Section on Immigration Law, member of the ABA Commission on Law and Aging and member of the ABA Coordinating Committee on Immigration Law. She is also a long term member of the MWPOC.
CHRISTIAN B. SUNDQUIST is the Director of Faculty Research and Scholarship and a Professor of Law at Albany Law School. Recently named as one of the leading national scholars on issues of technology, race and innovation by the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, his principal research interest lies at the intersection of biotechnology, race and law. He has presented widely on a variety of issues in the fields of constitutional law, evidence law, critical race theory, bioethics and education
reform. Professor Sundquist recently received an appointment as a Professor of Psychology with the University at Albany, SUNY to pursue grant-funded interdisciplinary research, and has served as a Visiting Scholar with the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He was appointed this year to the Executive Board for the American Association of Law Schools (AALS) Minority Groups section, as well as to the Executive Board for the AALS Evidence section.
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JOSE L. VARGAS TAPIA is the leader of Iniciativas de Paz, the international health brigades led by Iniciativa Comunitaria of Puerto Rico. During and after Hurricane Maria, Jay became part of a relief mission that created shelters for the homeless, sheltering over 100 homeless victims during the hurricane in San Juan. Subsequently, Toa Baja became one of the municipalities in grave need having suffered severe floods similar to those
suffered during Hurricane Katrina. Iniciativa Comunitaria assisted over 5,000 patients alone via its standstill free health clinic named Clínica Bantiox and via its health brigades has treated over 3,000 victims throughout Puerto Rico and Vieques. The ongoing efforts of Iniciativas de Paz started a path to uncovering remote vulnerable communities where access to healthcare continues to remain disrupted or non-existent after Hurricane Maria.
MONA R. WASHINGTON is a graduate of Georgetown University›s School of Foreign Service and Harvard Law School. Most recently, she was the commissioned playwright for «Philadelphia Assembled» (at the Philadelphia Museum of Art). She is a proud member of Voices of Our Nations Arts Foundation, Inc. (VONA). Her plays have been performed in New
York, Philadelphia, Rome, and Paris. She›s been awarded fellowships at The Djerassi Foundation, The Dora Maar House (Provence, France), The Ucross Foundation, and The Jack Kerouac House, amongst others. Queries regarding performance rights for plays may be directed to [email protected].
DONNA YOUNG is the President William McKinley Distinguished Professor of Law and Public Policy at Albany Law School where she teaches in the areas of criminal law, civil procedure, and employment law. She is an affiliated faculty member at the University at Albany’s Department of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Since 2015, Professor Young
has been a member of the AAUP’s Committee A on Academic Freedom and Tenure, the national organization responsible for drafting policies that promote principles of academic freedom, tenure, and due process in higher education, and investigating complaints of academic freedom violations at American colleges and universities.
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A very special “thank you” to:
Marcos Abad
Chris Colton
Sherri Meyer
Rita Petithory
Julie Pierce
Tyler Seabridge
Geoff Seber
David Singer
John Springsteen
From the NEPOC/CAPALF Planning Committee:
Elaine Chui
Anthony Paul Farley
Peter Halewood
Margaret Hu
Deseriee Kennedy
Deborah Post
Christian B. Sundquist
Donna Young
