Category Archives: Law and Race

SE/SW People of Color Legal Scholarship Conf.—50 Years After Civil Rights Act—Houston, TX

The 2014 Southeast/Southwest People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference will be hosted by Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law Feb. 27—March 2, 2014. The theme is Civil Rights…

LatCrit Biennial Conference—Chicago, IL

The 2013 LatCrit Biennial Conference takes place Oct. 3-6, 2013 at the Hilton Chicago O’Hare Airport. The theme is Resistance Rising: Theorizing and Building Cross-Sector Movements. The 2013 LatCrit/SALT Faculty…

Law and Society Association Annual Meeting—Minneapolis, MN

The Law and Society Association holds its annual meeting May 29—June 1, 2014. This year’s theme is Law and Inequalities: Global and Local. Recent decades have seen the persistence and…

Submissions are welcome for proposed chapters in the forthcoming book Trayvon Martin, Race, and “American Justice:” Writing Wrong. This edited volume seeks to bring together a cross-section of scholars to react,…

Southeast/Southwest People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference – Houston, TX

The Southeast/Southwest People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference will be held Feb. 27-Mar. 2, 2014, at Texas Southern University, Thurgood Marshall School of Law. The theme of the conference is…

UCLA Critical Race Studies Conference – Los Angeles, CA

UCLA School of Law announces the next Critical Race Studies Symposium.  Next year’s symposium will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the groundbreaking piece Whiteness as Property by Cheryl Harris.  The symposium will…

Call for Papers: Professor Derrick A. Bell & Critical Race Theory – Pittsburgh, PA

The University of Pittsburgh Law Review is seeking submissions for a symposium in honor of the late Derrick A. Bell, to be hosted on March 27-28, 2014. The focus of…

The New Cosmopolitanism: Global Migration and the Building of a Common Life—London, UK

The Contending Modernities Global Migration working group will hold an interdisciplinary conference, The New Cosmopolitanism: Global Migration and the Building of a Common Life, Oct. 14-15, 2013. The conference grows…

Northeast People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference — San Juan, Puerto Rico

The University of Puerto Rico School of Law (la Escuela de Derecho, Universidad de Puerto Rico) hosts the 2013 Northeast People of Color (NEPOC) Legal Scholarship Conference Dec. 5-8, 2013….

Call for Papers: Wills, Trusts and Estates Meets Gender, Race and Class – Oklahoma City, OK

Oklahoma City University School of Law hosts the conference “Wills, Trusts and Estates Meets Gender, Race and Class” September 27-28, 2013. This conference seeks to bring the insights of progressive property…