Frontiers in Social Justice Lawyering: Critical Race Revisited – New Haven, CT
Yale Law School presents Frontiers in Social Justice Lawyering: Critical Race Revisited on April 16-17, 2009.
In 1997, Yale Law School held a conference on Critical Race Theory (CRT) with some of the founding members of that discipline. Twelve years later, this conference on Critical Race Theory intends to look at the developments in CRT as an academic discipline and its ability to respond to new voices, contemporary issues, and emergent social movements. The conference in 2009 is an opportunity to reflect on the current status of CRT and what it offers to the development of conscientious, public interest advocacy.
Practically, the conference aims to bridge the gap between the practice of civil rights law and the insights of Critical Race Theory. Panelists will analyze the way in which legal claims are structured by available identity narratives, and role of the law in constituting and perpetuating fixed ideas of race, ethnicity, sexuality, and gender. The panels will address challenges facing civil rights practitioners: in particular, the simultaneous demands of zealous client advocacy on the one hand, and awareness of the complexity and multidimensionality of individual identity on the other.
For complete information, see the conference website. Online registration is now available.
