Videos tagged with Center on Law, Race and Politics

  • The Duke Law Center on Law, Race and Politics hosts a panel that examines the pandemic's effects on marginalized populations and considers policy interventions designed to address structural inequality.

  • Moderated by Guy-Uriel Charles, Charles S. Rhyne Professor of Law and founding director of the Duke Law Center on Law, Race and Politics.

  • Duke Law's Center on Law, Race and Politics hosted a conference on November 20-21, 2015, bringing together scholars and experts to discuss civil rights. In 2014, the nation marked the fiftieth anniversary of the March on Washington, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and Freedom Summer. In 2015, we recognized the fiftieth anniversary of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Moving into the 21st century, America finds itself at the beginning of a new era defined by its own set of civil rights struggles.

  • A celebration of Black History Month with a panel discussion on influential Black attorneys who inspired the career paths of four Duke Law professors: Guy-Uriel Charles, Darrell A.H. Miller, Trina Jones, and James E. Coleman, Jr.

    Sponsored by the American Constitution Society.

  • The Present and Future of Civil Rights Movements: Race and Reform in 21st Century America

    Remarks: Christine Kim '16, Guy-Uriel Charles (Duke Law School)

  • The Past and Future of Civil Rights Movements: Race and Reform in 21st Century America

    Plenary: Criminal Justice Reform and Mass Incarceration

    Moderator: Mario Barnes (University California, Irvine, School of Law)

    Panel: Daryl Atkinson (Southern Coalition for Social Justice), Devon W. Carbado (UCLA School of Law), Michael Pinard (University of Maryland School of Law) , Cheryl Harris (UCLA School of Law), Thena Robinson-Mock (Advancement Project)

  • The Present and Future of Civil Rights Movements: Race and Reform in 21st Century America

    Plenary: Race, Culture and Media

    Moderator: Mark Anthony Neal (Duke University, Department of African & African American Studies)
    Panel: Devon W. Carbado (UCLA School of Law), Tanisha C. Ford (Haute Couture Intellectualism, University of Massachusetts Amherst), Russell Robinson (University of California, Berkeley School of Law), Goldie Taylor (Editor-at-Large, The Daily Beast)

  • The Present and Future of Civil Rights Movements: Race and Reform in 21st Century America

    Plenary: Race, Political Participation, and the Roberts Court

    Moderator: Kerry Haynie (Duke University, Department of Political Science)

    Panel: Ari Berman (The Nation), Richard Delgado (University of Alabama School of Law), Luis Ricardo Fraga (University of Notre Dame, Institute for Latino Studies), Pamela Karlan (Stanford Law School), Taeku Lee (University of California Berkeley Department of Political Science), Neil Siegel (Duke Law School)

  • The Present and Future of Civil Rights Movements: Race and Reform in 21st Century America

    Introduction: Trina Jones (Duke Law School) & Ana Apostoleris '16 (Duke Law School - Student)

    Plenary: Reflections on the Present and Future of Civil Rights Movements

    Moderator: Angela Onwuachi-Willig (University of Iowa College of Law)

  • The Present and Future of Civil Rights Movements: Race and Reform in 21st Century America

    Plenary: Trends in Immigration Law and Policy

    Welcome: Dean David F. Levi (Duke Law School)

    Moderator: Cristina Rodriguez (Yale Law School)

    Panel: Leisy Abrego (UCLA, Department of Chicana/o Studies), Jennifer Chacón (University of California, Irvine, School of Law), Alejandra Gomez (Living United for Change in Arizona – LUCHA), Marielena Hincapie (National Immigration Law Center), Robin Lenhardt (Fordham University School of Law), Hiroshi Motomura (UCLA School of Law)

  • The Present and Future of Civil Rights Movements: Race and Reform in 21st Century America

    Plenary: Developments and Ongoing Challenges for LGTB Communities

    Moderator: Holning Lau (University of North Carolina School of Law)

    Panel: Bernadette Brown (Duke University, Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity), Chinyere Ezie (Southern Poverty Law Center), Holiday Simmons (Lambda Legal), Juan Session-Smalls & Gee Session-Smalls (Juan & Gee Enterprises)

  • 16:00 Concurrent Panel (1 of 5)

    Moderator: Darrell A.H. Miller (Duke Law School)
    Ralph Richard Banks (Stanford Law School)
    Katharine T. Bartlett and Mitu Gulati (Duke Law School)
    Michael Selmi (George Washington University Law School)
    Sandra F. Sperino (University of Cincinnati College of Law)

    Recorded on November 20, 2015

  • 2015 marks the 150th anniversary of the Thirteenth Amendment, commemorated here with a panel discussion on its history and contemporary relevance. Panelists include Professor Darrell Miller (Duke Law), Professor Laura Edwards (Duke History), and Professor George Rutherglen (Virginia Law).

    Sponsored by the Center on Law, Race and Politics, the American Constitution Society, and the Program in Public Law.

  • A discussion with Professors Katharine Bartlett and Karla Holloway, based on the controversy surrounding the novels Go Set A Watchman and To Kill a Mockingbird. Moderated by Marcus Benning (Black Law Students Association) and Henry Washington (Black Student Alliance), the discussion explores such questions as: Who is Atticus Finch? What does "he" owe us? What, if anything, does the controversial sequel reveal, teach, or reflect about race in our culture and legal system? What, if anything, does it say about the law, ethics, and politics of Black Lives Matter?

  • Please join the American Constitution Society, the Center for Law, Race, and Politics, and the Duke Law Innocence Project for a discussion with Jennifer Thompson and Ronald Cotton, co-authors of the award-winning book "Picking Cotton: Our Memoir of Injustice and Redemption," which focuses on Thompson's mistaken identification of Cotton as the perpetrator of her rape, and his subsequent wrongful conviction and incarceration.

  • Sparked by the Michael Brown shooting in Missouri, there is a renewed public discussion on troubled interactions between minorities and police. This panel, comprised of experts from various disciplines, offers observations and suggestions. Panelists include: Dr. Mark Anthony Neal, Professor of Black Popular Culture in the Department of African and African-American Studies at Duke University; Dr.