Defending and Promoting Civil Rights in a Time of Coronavirus- Symposium

Civil Rights in a Time of Coronavirus will address the situation of the detained and imprisoned—including persons detained as part of immigration enforcement and the Black Lives Matter protests in response to the public murder of George Floyd; the civil rights implications of the Covid-19 crisis/scandal in housing and employment discrimination; voting rights including concerns about suspended elections and the push for nationwide vote by mail reforms as especially pressing during a pandemic; disabled persons; aging populations, particularly the institutionalized (and their involuntary deinstitutionalization to make way for more fully funded patients); lessons to be learned from parallels to be drawn between the Covid-19 crisis/scandal with the crisis/scandal of our national, local and international experience dealing with HIV; and the international dimensions of the Covid-19 crisis/scandal and the impotency of international human rights norms and institutions to secure basic civil rights on a global level.

Agenda:

Opening Remarks: 12:00 pm

Anthony E. Varona, Dean and M. Minnette Massey Professor of Law, University of Miami School of Law

Elizabeth M. Iglesias, Professor of Law and ACS Faculty Advisor, University of Miami School of Law; Chair, Civil Rights Section of the Association of American Law Schools; Chair, Constitutional Law Section, Hispanic National Bar Association

Keynote Address: Gerald Torres, Professor of Environmental Justice, Yale School of the Environment; Professor of Law, Yale Law School; Past-President of the Association of American Law Schools

Panel 1: International and Comparative, states of siege, crimes of negligence, discriminatory policing, excessive use of force & terrorism

Ben Davis, Professor of Law, Toledo College of Law

Heidi Gilchrist, Associate Professor of Legal Writing, Brooklyn Law School

Elizabeth M. Iglesias, Professor of Law and ACS Faculty Advisor, University of Miami, Social Justice/Public Interest Concentration

Caroline Bettinger-Lopez, Professor of Law, Director Human Rights Clinic & Social Justice/Public Interest Concentration, University of Miami

Rachel Lopez, Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Community Lawyering Clinic, Thomas R. Kline School of Law at Drexel University; Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School

Panel 2 Police, surveillance, detention, incarceration, civil rights, qualified immunity etc

Gilbert P. Carrasco, Professor of Law, Willamette School of Law; ; Member, ACS Oregon Lawyer Chapter Board of Directors

Darren Hutchinson, Professor of Law, Raymond & Miriam Ehrlich Eminent Scholar Chair, and ACS Faculty Advisor, University of Florida Levin College of Law

Danielle C. Jefferis, Assistant Professor of Law, California Western School of Law

Jalila Jefferson-Bullock, Associate Professor of Law, Duquesne University School of Law

Scott Skinner-Thompson, Associate Professor and ACS Faculty Advisor, University of Colorado Law School

Panel 3 Inequality, education, employment, caregivers

Sean Scott, President and Dean, California Western School of Law

Madeleine Plasencia, Law Professor, University of Miami School of Law

Lia Epperson, Professor of Law, American University, Washington College of Law

David Lopez, Co-Dean and Professor Alfred Slocum Scholar, Rutgers Law School

Leanne Fuith, Associate Professor, Dean of the Career and Professional Development, Mitchell Hamline School of Law

Panel 4  Immigration, systemic racism, voting rights, and public health rationing 

Raquel E. Aldana, Professor of Law & Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Diversity, University of California at Davis

Samuel Bagenstos, Professor of Law, University of Michigan

Kathy Cullinton-Gonzalez, Chair of the Civil Rights Section and Co-Chair of the 2020 Initiative,  Hispanic National Bar Association

Ediberto Román, Professor of Law, Director of Citizen and Immigration Initiatives, and ACS Faculty Advisor, FIU College of Law

Susan Serrano, Associate Director of the Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law, Director of Research and Scholarship at the Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law, University of Hawaii at Manoa, William S. Richardson School of Law 

Closing Remarks

Elizabeth M. Iglesias, Professor of Law and ACS Faculty Advisor, University of Miami School of Law; Chair, Civil Rights Section of the Association of American Law Schools; Chair, Constitutional Law Section, Hispanic National Bar Association

***Happy Hour Break Out: 5:30-6pm

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