Join the Florida International University College of Law (FIU Law) ACS Student Chapter, the South Florida ACS Lawyer Chapter, the FIU Law Stonewall Legal Alliance, and the FIU Law Black Law Students Association for a conversation on “Breaking the Rainbow Ceiling.”
Featuring:
Hon. Rand Hoch, Attorney, Law & Mediation Offices of Rand Hoch, P.A.; President and Founder, Palm Beach County Human Rights Council Board of Directors. Judge Hoch became Florida's first openly LGBTQ+ judge when he was appointed Judge of Compensation Claims by Governor Lawton Chiles in 1992.
Hon. Darrin Gayles, Judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Judge Gayles is the first openly gay African-American man to serve in the federal judiciary. He was nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed in 2014.
Hon. Phyllis Kotey, Director of Externship and Pro Bono Program and Clinical Professor of Law, FIU College of Law. Judge Kotey was the 8th Judicial Circuit's first black female county judge.
1.0 hr of FL CLE has been approved.
The American Constitution Society chapter at the University of Michigan Law School is co-hosting a Wrongful Conviction Event with the National Lawyers Guild chapter with Professor Moran and Richard Phillips, who was exonerated in 2018 after 46 years in prison for a murder committed by the star witness against him.
The American Constitution Society chapter at the University of Michigan Law School will be hosting attorneys Nikhel Sus and Brie Sparkman Binder of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). CREW is a government watchdog that spearheaded Trump v. Anderson and other legal challenges to Trump's ballot access. Nikhel and Brie will join us for a Q&A event followed by audience questions. They will give us an inside perspective on litigating Trump v. Anderson and what Anderson's short-term and long-term impacts are.
Elizabeth Cabraser, Partner at Lieff Cabraser, will be discussing her role as co-lead litigator on behalf of veterans in the current Camp Lejeune toxic-water mass tort litigation. Cabraser is in the National Trial Lawyers Hall of Fame and is one of the nation's premier litigators.
Join Professors Jasmine Harris and Karen Tani to discuss their pathbreaking paper, The Disability Docket, applying a “disability lens” to the Supreme Court’s 2021 and 2022 Terms (co-written with Shira Wakschlag (the Arc)). Professors Harris and Tani argue that disability law, as well as disability advocacy, can provide critical perspectives to ongoing debates about inclusion and resource distribution. Tracing both disability-related disputes as well as non-disability cases with disproportionate impact on people with disabilities, the article articulates the Supreme Court’s broader agenda through a disability lens to further and protect civil rights more generally.
Jasmine E. Harris is a Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School with a secondary appointment at the Penn Graduate School of Education. She is a leading law and inequality scholar with expertise in disability law, antidiscrimination law, and evidence as well as a frequent contributor in publications and media outlets as the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Ms. Magazine, Washington Post, TIME Magazine, Bloomberg, and National Public Radio. Professor Harris holds a BA from Dartmouth College and a JD from Yale Law School. She clerked for Harold Baer, Jr., United States District Judge for the Southern District of New York, practiced complex commercial litigation at WilmerHale, and practiced public interest law at the Advancement Project. Harris serves as an executive board member of The Arc of the United States where she chairs the organization’s Legal Advocacy Committee.
Karen Tani is the Seaman Family University Professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where she is jointly appointed in the law school and the history department. She is the author of States of Dependency: Welfare, Rights, and American Governance, 1935-1972 (Cambridge University Press, 2016). Her published articles have appeared or are forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, Law and History Review, Disability Studies Quarterly, and other outlets. Her current book project is titled “Costed Out: Disabled Citizens and American Governance in the Late Twentieth Century.” She holds a JD and a PhD in History from the University of Pennsylvania.
