The Free People of Color Lecture Series, Spring 2021
01/19/21 - "An Integral Portion of this Republic," with Professor Christopher Bonner
01/26/21 - "'The Rights of the Citizens of Massachusetts'": African American Sailors in Southern Ports in the 1830s," with Professor Kate Masur
02/02/21 - "Mary Chinaman: Trafficking, Runaways, and the Law in the American West," with Professor Beth Lew-Williams
02/09/21 - "Becoming Mobile in the Age of Segregation: Public Conveyances and the Fight for Black Citizenship," with Professor Elizabeth Stordeur Pryor
02/16/21 - "On the Antebellum Fringe: Lumbee Indians, Slavery, and Removal," with Professor Malinda Maynor Lowery
02/23/21 - "Everyday Use: A History of Civil Rights in Black Churches," with Professor Dylan C. Penningroth
03/02/21 - "Manila Prepares for Independence: Filipina/o Campaigns for U.S. Citizenship on the Eve of Philippine Decolonization," with Professor Jane Hong
03/16/21 - "From Fishing Together to To Fish in Common With: Makah Marine Waters and the Making of the Settler Commons in Washington Territory," with Professor Joshua Reid
03/30/21 - "Race, Economic Discrimination, and the Politics Homeownership Expansion," with Professor Chloe Thurston
04/06/21 - "Reconstruction and the Long History of Equal Access to Court Testimony," with Professor Pippa Holloway
04/13/21 - "The First Civil Rights Movement: Emancipation and Manumission in the Age of Revolution, 1770-1826," with Dr. Paul Finkelman
04/20/21 - "A Radical Remedy: The Making of Plenary Power in the U.S. West," with Professor Julian Lim
04/27/21 - "The War Against Asian Sailors and Fishers," with Professor Gabriel "Jack" Chin
Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series, Fall 2020
09/08/20 - "Restorative Justice and Criminal Law: Challenges & Opportunities for Justice Reform," with Professor Thalia González
09/15/20 - "Dog Whistle Politics and Asian Americans," with Professor Robert S. Chang
09/22/20 - "Why the ERA Would Endanger Women's Equality: Lessons From Colorblind Constitutionalism," with Professor Kim Forde-Mazrui
09/29/20 - "The Essential & the Unprotected: Safeguarding Latino Workers During the Covid-19 Crisis," with Hugo Morales
10/06/20 - "Fear of Humiliation as the Root of Racism," with Peter Gabel
10/13/20 - "Indigenous Peoples & Cultural Appropriation: The Rise of BLM and the Fall of Racist Brands," with Professor Angela R. Riley
10/27/20 - "The Trauma of Injustice," with Dean and Professor Angela Onwuachi-Willig
11/10/20 - "The Internet of Things and The Future of Privacy," with Professor Stacy-Ann Elvy
11/17/20 - Aoki Student Presentations
Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series, Spring 2020
1/21/20 - "Cultural Humility and the Interruption of Scripts of Inequality," with Dr. Jann Murray-Garcia
1/28/20 - "Diversity Logic - How Diverse Decision Making Makes Us Smarter, More Resilient, and Better Able to Achieve Justice," with Bill Kennedy
2/4/20 - "U.S. Supreme Court and African Americans," with Bill Wiecek
2/11/20 - "Uniqueness and Beyond: The Contradictions of Tribal Status in the United States," with Katherine Florey
2/18/20 - Day of Rememberance "Deporter In-Chief: Obama v. Trump," with Bill Hing
2/25/20 - "American Colonialism and American Constitutionalism," with Seth Davis
3/3/20 - "Birthright Citizenship and Slave Trade Legislation," with Gabriel "Jack" Chin
4/7/20 - "The Constitution Through a Critical Lens," with Students from the Aoki Center Critical Race Studies Reading Group
Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series, Fall 2019
9/10/19 - "Almost Citizens," with Sam Erman
9/17/19 - "Miscounting the Chineese: Racial Bias in Homeland Security and in the 1892-1906 Census," with Sue Fawn Chung
9/17/19 - "Impact of Racism on the Health and Well-being of Children," with Tiffani J. Johnson
9/24/19 - "Unequal Profession: Race and Gender in Legal Academia," with Meera E. Deo
10/1/19 - "What's so Scary About Revolutions?" with Gregory Downs
10/8/19 - "Understanding Diversity and Inclusion in our Courts," with Judge Emily Vasquez (video unavailable)
10/15/19 - "Native American Law and Policy in California," with Christina Snider
10/22/19 - "Trump's Latinx Repatriation," with Dean Kevin Johnson
10/29/19 - "Increasing Inclusion by Mentoring," with Adrienne Lawson
11/5/19 - "A Community-Based Feminist Approach to Examining Exposure and Assessing Community Health: Addressing Environmental Health Concerns of Community Residents of Kettleman," with Clare Cannon
11/12/19 - "A Critique of the Myths and Paradigms Underpinning White Privilege," with Kassahun Gebremariam
11/19/19 - "The Overpolicing of Students of Color and Innovative Methods of Resistance," with Jade Parker & King Hall Students
Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series, Spring 2019
1/29/19 - "The Relationship Between the 'Me Too' Movement, the Media, and Women in Employment," with Martha West
2/19/19 - Day of Remembrance for Japanese Internment During WWII, with Joshua Kaizuka and Congresswoman Doris Matsui
2/26/19 - "UC Immigrant Legal Services: A Model for Public Universities," with Maria Blanco
3/5/19 - "Law and the Making of American Imperialism," with Nina Farnia (video available on law school intranet)
3/19/19 - "Empirically Investigating the Source of the Repeat Player Effect in Consumer Arbitration," with Andrea Chandrasekher
4/2/19 - "Civil Rights and the FDR Administration," with Eric Rauchway
4/9/19 - "A Review of Native American Identity in California," with Chief Judge Christine Williams
4/16/19 - "A Conversation Between the Framptons: From the Streets of East Harlem to the Halls of the Supreme Court, A Reflection on the Struggle for Gender and Reproductive Justice," with Mary Louise Frampton and George T. Frampton Jr.
Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series, Fall 2018
9/4/18 - "Decolonizing Federal Indian Law," with Victorio Shaw
9/11/18 - "CA's Affordable Housing Crisis & Homelessness: A Local Perspective," with Enrique Fernandez
9/18/18 - "Immigration Policy and Human Rights in the Trump Era," with Sasha Abramsky
9/25/18 - "Doctrine at the Gate: Religion, Race, Class, and Gender in Catholic Hospitals," with Lisa Ikemoto
10/9/18 - A Discussion on Tribal Sovereignty and Federal Indian Law, with Jeff Keohane
10/16/18 - "Space, Race and Law in the City of Nairobi," with Bettina Ng'weno
10/23/18 - "Suicide? It Ain't Just a White Thing," with Nicki King
10/25/18 - "Lift Us Up, Don't Push Us Out!" with Mark Warren
10/30/18 - "The King of Adobe: Reies López Tijerina and the New Mexican Land-Grant Movement," with Lorena Oropeza
Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series, Spring 2018
1/23/18 - "The Other Slavery," with Andrés Reséndez
1/30/18 - "The Advocacy of the King Hall Immigration Law Clinic in the Age of Trump," with Holly Cooper
2/6/18 - "My President Was Black...So What!: Sociopolitical Realities of Black Male Youths," with Lawrence Winn
2/13/18 - "Ferguson, Gaza, Standing Rock: Histories of Settler Colonialism and Anti-Blackness," with Justin Leroy
2/20/18 - " Oyama v. California: A Play," with Rose Cuison-Villazor
2/27/18 - "An Immodest Proposal: Children, Citizenship, and Vicarious Voting as a Solution to California-Style Feudalism," with Christopher Elmendorf
3/6/18 - "Family Law and (In)Equity," with Courtney Joslin
3/13/18 - "One Misstep from Free Fall: Living the Black Middle Class in Harlem," with Bruce Haynes
4/10/18 - "California's Experiment with Prison Downsizing: Any Progress in Reversing Racial Disparities in Correctional Involvement?"
4/17/18 - "Transforming the Juvenile Justice System," with Mary Louise Frampton
Tribal Justice Project
9/17/18 - "Indian Civil Rights Act: Fifty Years Later," with Chief Justice Abby Abinanti, Chief Judge Claudette White, Tribal Advisor to the Governor Cynthia Gomez (retired), and Professor Joseph Myers, moderated by Chief Judge Christine Williams
Special Events
10/25/18 - "Lift Us Up, Don't Push Us Out!" Critical Dialogue on Education Justice
