2010 SymposiumJOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM
University of Pennsylvania Law School |
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| Friday, February 5, 2010 Levy Conference Center, University of Pennsylvania Law School | |
| 8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. | Breakfast and Registration |
| 9:30 a.m. - 11:15 a.m. | Comparative Perspectives: Citizenship, Identity and Racial Discrimination in Latin America and the Caribbean Moderated by Professor Sarah Paoletti, University of Pennsylvania Law School Hate Speech and Racial Discrimination in Latin America Professor Tanya K. Hernandez, Fordham University School of Law Delinquent Citizenship: Race, National Performances, and the Politics of "Worth" in Puerto Rican Chicago Professor Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas, Rutgers University Rastafari, Inc.: Reparations, Ownership, and the Performance of Culture Professor Deborah A. Thomas, University of Pennsylvania |
| 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. | Keynote Lecture Sir Clare Kamau Roberts Introduction by Dean Michael Fitts |
| 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. | Lunch With a Special Presentation by Penn Law's Haiti Disaster Relief Committee |
| 1:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. | Legal Rights in Action: Environmental Justice and International Trade in Latin America and the Caribbean Moderated by Professor Howard Chang, University of Pennsylvania Law School The Power of Constitutions: Environmental Justice, Legal Pluralism and the Rights of Afro-Descendants and Indigenous Peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean Professor Colin Crawford, Georgia State University College of Law Environmental Justice in Latin America: Natural Resources and Cultural Identity Professor Carmen Gonzalez, Seattle University School of Law Global Inequality: The Special Problems of Being Smaller, Poorer and in the Shadow of a (Declining) Superpower Professor Ruth Gordon, Villanova Law School |
| 3:10 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. | Voices from the Field: Policy and Practice Perspectives Moderated by Dean Amy Gadsden, University of Pennsylvania Law School Afro-Brazilians in the U.S: Seeking Equality and Mobility Ramona Ortega, Cidadão Global Unprecedented Legal Empowerment vs. Unfulfilled Reality: Afro- Descendants in Colombia Meredith Gloger, International Republican Institute |
| 4:30 p.m. | Closing Remarks Professor Fernando Chang Muy, University of Pennsylvania Law School |
| 4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. | Cocktail Reception in the Great Hall |
