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The Role of Choice and the Impact of Race in the Pursuit of Educational Equity
OnlineEducation is undeniably central to efforts to promote racial justice. This session highlights the varied roles of three Black SLS graduates in expanding educational opportunity. Learn from the perspectives of a lawyer for school districts, the general counsel of a large charter school network and a law professor. These SLS alums will reflect on their […]
Tuesday Race Talk: The Racial Wealth Gap
OnlineSponsored by the Stanford Center for Racial Justice
Tuesday Race Talk: Investment Performance and Racial Justice
OnlineSponsored by the Stanford Center for Racial Justice
Tuesday Race Talks – The Black Panther Legacy Today
OnlinePresented by the Stanford Center for Racial Justice
Tuesday Race Talks – The State of Black Politics
OnlinePlease join us in a conversation about the current state of politics in the U.S. and some reflections on the 2020 elections with Steve Phillips.
Tuesday Race Talks: Movement Lawyering and Racial Justice
OnlinePlease join Professor Rick Banks in a conversation with Sarah Medina Camiscoli, co-founder of IntegrateNYC, Aneth Naranjo, Director of Youth Leadership IntegrateNYC, and Mark Rosenbaum, Director, Opportunity Under Law at Public Counsel, about their unique partnership to advance an anti-racist education system. How can the tools of movement lawyering and impact litigation be merged to address […]
Tuesday Race Talks – Rich Thanks to Racism: How the Ultra-Wealthy Profit from Racial Injustice
OnlineSponsored by the Stanford Center for Racial Justice
Panel Discussion on the Derek Chauvin Guilty Verdict
OnlinePlease join us for a panel discussion via Zoom on the Derek Chauvin verdict. We acknowledge that the killing of George Floyd and the events leading to and including the trial of former police officer Chauvin are traumatic for many in our community. Our speakers are experts in criminal and civil rights law. They will […]
Tuesday Race Talks – One Trailblazing Black Lawyer and the Creation of Silicon Valley
OnlinePlease join Professor Rick Banks in a conversation with Harry Bremond, who in the late 1960s became one of the first partners at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. Sponsored by the […]
Wednesday Race Talks – Understanding and Addressing Anti-Asian Violence
OnlineCo-sponsored by the Stanford Center for Racial Justice with APILSA and the Stanford Asian American Activities Center (A3C).
The Year and Race
OnlineFrom BLM uprisings in cities all over the world following the on-screen killings of Black men and women, to anti-Asian violence in the wake of COVID-19, to the verdicts in the Chauvin prosecution, the past year has had a pivotal impact on issues of race and racism. The Center for Racial Justice invites all Stanford Law […]
Racial Violence and its Effects on Communities: Reflections on the Trial of Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers
OnlineThe tragedy of Ahmaud Arbery’s killing and the public angst, trauma and protests it engendered has gripped our entire nation. The Stanford Center for Racial Justice is hosting a public webinar to discuss the layered issues of race and law that manifested in the trial of Ahmaud Arbery's killers. From the nearly 10 weeks it […]
Conference on Racial Equity in Corporate Governance
OnlinePlease join us for our second annual virtual conference series on racial equity in corporate governance. Over the course of three discussions, we will be joined by business leaders and top legal thinkers to explore how to increase racial diversity in the C-suite and boardroom, how corporate leaders can promote a more inclusive workforce and racial equity, […]
Stanford Center for Racial Justice Spring Open House for SLS Students
@ SLS: Room 320D Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAThe Stanford Center for Racial Justice is kicking off the spring quarter with an informal open house for all SLS students! Please join the Center’s Faculty Director, Professor Rick Banks, Executive Director, George Brown, and staff members to learn more about our work and potential ways for you to get involved. As part of the […]
Data-Driven Policing: Abolition and Reform
Zoom (virtual location)This event is open to the Stanford Law School community only. Shakeer Rahman is an attorney and community organizer with the Stop LAPD Spying Coalition, an abolitionist group working to build community resistance to police technologies. His work focuses on LAPD's use of data as well as "community policing" strategies to select people and places for targeted policing. […]
The Right to a Jury Trial: A Crime on the Bayou Film Screening with Remarks from Pamela Karlan and Discussion with Gary Duncan
@ SLS: Room 180 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAPlease register for the event using the form below.
Book Talk — Unreasonable: Black Lives, Police Power, and the Fourth Amendment with Devon W. Carbado
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAIn Unreasonable: Black Lives, Police Power, and the Fourth Amendment, celebrated legal scholar Devon Carbado, The Honorable Harry Pregerson Professor of Law at UCLA, explains how the Fourth Amendment became ground zero for regulating police conduct—more important than Miranda warnings, the right to counsel, equal protection and due process. Fourth Amendment law determines when and how […]
Book Talk — The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover: How the FBI Aided and Abetted the Rise of White Christian Nationalism with Lerone A. Martin
@ SLS: Room 280B Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAIn The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover, Lerone Martin draws on thousands of newly declassified FBI documents and memos to describe how, under Hoover’s leadership, FBI agents attended spiritual retreats and worship services, creating an FBI religious culture that fashioned G-men into soldiers and ministers of Christian America. Martin shows how prominent ministers from across […]
Conference on Racial Equity in Corporate Governance
OnlineWatch the event Please join us for our third annual virtual conference series on racial equity in corporate governance. Building on previous sessions of our conference series, we will convene business leaders and top legal thinkers for a panel discussion exploring the implications of recent and pending appellate cases involving challenges to diversity, equity, and inclusion strategies […]
Book Talk – In Their Names with Lenore Anderson
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAThis event is sponsored by the Stanford Center for Racial Justice, the Stanford Criminal Justice Center, and the Haas Center for Public Service.
Book Talk — Poison Ivy: How Elite Colleges Divide Us with Evan Mandery
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAThis is an in-person event. It will be recorded and will be posted on the Stanford YouTube page a few days after the event. Drawing upon his personal experiences at Harvard and as a professor for 25 years at the City University of New York, Mandery offers a scathing critique of elite colleges for creating […]
Book Talk — The Kneeling Man: My Father’s Life as a Black Spy Who Witnessed the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
@ SLS: Room 280B Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAThis is an in-person event. It will be recorded and will be posted on the Stanford YouTube page a few days after the event. In the famous photograph of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. on the balcony of Memphis’s Lorraine Motel, one man kneeled down beside King, trying to staunch the blood from […]
Affirmative Action: SLS Faculty Analyze the Supreme Court’s Ruling
OnlineWatch the event Join Stanford Law School faculty for a panel discussion about the Supreme Court’s highly anticipated decision in a pair of cases about affirmative action, Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina and Students for Fair Admissions v. Presidents & Fellows of Harvard College. They will assess what the opinion means […]
Considering Professionalism and Racism: How the Professional Identity Defines, Impacts, and Marginalizes People of Color
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAPrompted by Leah Goodridge's recent essay in the UCLA Law Review which "examines professionalism as a tool to subjugate people of color in the legal field," this discussion illuminates how racial hierarchy and inequity operates within the legal professionalism context—not only for attorneys and paralegals but also for those participating in the legal process. Please […]
Lunch with Stephen Bright, Longtime Director of the Southern Center for Human Rights, on “The Fear of Too Much Justice”
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAJoin Stephen Bright, longtime director of the Southern Center for Human Rights, in Atlanta, Georgia, as he discusses his work in the areas of capital punishment, indigent criminal legal defense, racial discrimination in the criminal legal system, conditions and practices in prisons and jails, judicial independence, and his new book (with co-author James Kwak), The Fear […]