LatCrit XIV Conference Comes to WCL
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
WASHINGTON, DC, September 25, 2009 – American University Washington College of Law is hosting LatCrit XIV, the 14th Annual Latino/a Critical Legal Theory Conference, Oct. 1-4.
This year’s conference theme is Outsiders Inside: Critical Outsider Theory and Praxis in the Policymaking of the New American Regime. The conference takes place Oct. 1-4, with the first day of the conference devoted to the LatCrit-Society for American Law Teachers jointly sponsored Faculty Development Workshop. Most of the Oct. 3 conference events, including a keynote luncheon, five panel rounds, and 27 work-in-progress colloquia, will take place at WCL. The rest of the conference will be hosted at the Hyatt Regency in Bethesda, Md.
LatCrit, or Latina & Latino Critical Legal Theory, is an intellectual movement dedicated to advancing critical ‘outsider’ jurisprudence and scholarship that, since the founding of LatCrit Inc. in 1995, has promoted critical, activist and inter-disciplinary discourse on law and policy affecting Latinos/as and related communities, and promoted coalitional theory and practice in social justice and legal transformation work. LatCrit theorists aim to recognize Latinas/os' multiple diversities and to situate Latinas/os in larger inter-group frameworks, both domestically and globally, to promote social justice awareness, legal reform, and critical scholarship and activism.
LatCrit XIV promises to be a dynamic and engaging conference exploring this year’s theme, Plenary speakers include Congresswoman Linda Sanchez (D-CA), Senator Robert Menendez (D-NJ)(invited), Judge Ricardo Urbina (U.S. District Court for D.C.), EEOC Commissioner Christine Griffin, American Constitution Society executive director Caroline Fredrickson, Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation president Jarrett Barrios, and Raben Group president Robert Raben. The Fifth Annual Jerome Culp, Jr., Memorial LatCrit Lecturer will be Fordham U. School of Law professor Tanya Hernandez.
Joining these illustrious plenary speakers will be a diverse roster of 220 notable scholars and activists on over 80 panels, roundtables and in work-in-progress colloquia focused on such topics as:
- the significance and complexities of having an “outsider inside” legal scholar President;
- the current state of Critical Race and Latino/a Critical Theory;
- international and comparative law; LatCritical global and domestic (socio)economics;
- classism, racism, sexism, homophobia, ablism and their intersections;
- immigration, human trafficking, and migrant workers; citizenship and alienage;
- LatCritical responses to developments and challenges in labor and employment law and policy; criminal, communications, electoral, environmental, education, and commercial law and policy;
- feminist jurisprudence, domestic violence and sex/gender-based discrimination;
- reproductive rights/procreation; family law and policy;
- LGBT law & policy (marriage, antidiscrimination, queer theory);
- religious liberty and expression; and
- critical legal history.
When: October 1-4 2009
8:30 A.M. – 10:00 P.M.
Where: American University Washington College of Law
4801 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC, 20016
and
Hyatt Regency Bethesda
1 Bethesda Metro Center
Bethesda, MD 20814
