Schedule
President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: On Questions, Doubts, and the Problems of Full Citizenship
18th Annual Mid-Atlantic People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference 2013
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Philadelphia, PA
January 24-26, 2013
Thursday, January 24 |
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| 4:30 - 5:30 pm | Registration |
| 5:00 - 6:00 pm |
Reception |
| 6:00 - 7:15 pm |
Welcome and Introduction
Reginald Leamon Robinson, MAPOC Founder and Conference Chair, Howard University |
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Opening Address
The Emancipation Proclamation: Freedom with All Deliberate Speed |
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Friday, January 25 |
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| 8:00 - 10:00 am |
Registration and Continental Breakfast Gittis 214 |
| 9:00 - 9:30 am |
Opening Remarks Gittis 214 Michael A. Fitts, Dean and Bernard G. Segal Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Law School Regina Austin, Site Chair, University of Pennsylvania Law School |
| 9:30 - 10:45 am |
Panel 1: Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, Civil War Amendments, and its Contemporary Implications for Full Citizenship* Gittis 214 |
| Moderator: | Hank Chambers, University of Richmond |
| Panelists: |
First Step to Citizenship: Emancipating Slaves and Enlisting Free Blacks Under a Proslavery Constitution Paul Finkelman, Duke University (Visiting) and Albany Law School Why Lincoln Waited To Issue the Emancipation Proclamation Robert Fabrikant, Howard University The Emancipation Proclamation: Transforming Property, Transforming People Hank Chambers, University of Richmond |
| 10:45 - 11:00 am | Break |
| 11:00 - 12:00 pm | Concurrent Works in Progress 1 |
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Tanenbaum 112 |
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| 12:00 - 12:15 pm | Break |
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Lunch and Keynote Presentation The Clock Lounge |
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| 12:15 - 12:45 pm | Lunch |
| 12:45 - 1:45 pm |
Introduction
Keynote Presentation* |
| 1:45 - 2:00 pm | Break |
| 2:00 - 3:15 pm |
Panel 2: Historical Discrimination and Citizenship* Gittis 214 |
| Moderator: | Sophia Z. Lee, University of Pennsylvania Law School |
| Panelists: |
Full Citizenship in a Settler Colonial Context: The Inadequacies of Equal Protection
Prostituted Kids: A Critical Race Feminist Critique
A Tax History of Race in the United States
What Does Citizenship Mean for People with Mental Disabilities? |
| 3:15 - 3:30 pm | Break |
| 3:30 - 4:30 pm | Concurrent Works in Progress 2 |
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Tanenbaum 112 Tanenbaum 253 Tanenbaum 320 Tanenbaum 345 |
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| 4:30 - 4:45 pm | Break |
| 4:45 - 6:00 pm |
Panel 3: Anti-Immigration Policies and Civil Rights* Gittis 214 |
| Moderator: | Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Temple University |
| Panelists: |
Earning Citizenship Jennifer Chacon, University of California–Irvine Legacy of Prohibition on U.S. Immigration Law Jayesh Rathod, American University Defining American: Assessing the Long-Term Consequences of the DREAM Movement Elizabeth Keyes, University of Baltimore |
| 6:00 - 6:45 pm |
MAPOC Business Meeting for 2014 Shuster Room, Silverman 147 |
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Dinner and Panel Discussion The Clock Lounge |
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| 7:00 - 7:30 pm | Dinner |
| 7:30 - 8:30 pm | Panel 4: Derrick Bell’s Space Traders: A Meditation on the Meaning of Citizenship* |
| Moderator: | Anthony Farley, Albany Law School |
| Panelists: |
The Spaceship & the Cross: Derrick Bell’s Existentialism Anthony Farley, Albany Law School Derrick Bell: Godfather Provocateur andré p. d. cummings, Indiana Tech University Bell’s Space Traders: Child Maltreatment as the Proper Locus for Interrogating Full Citizenship Reginald Leamon Robinson, Howard University The Power of Parable: Spirituality and Science Fiction in the Scholarship of Derrick Bell Debra Waire Post, Touro University Corporate Boards and Interest Convergence Steven Ramirez, Loyola-Chicago University ‘Spread ‘em!’: Queer, Feminist, and Critical Race Theories of Stop & Frisk Josephine Ross, Howard University Trading Spaces: A Bellsian Analysis of NYC’s Current Stop, Question, & Frisk Practice Bridgette Baldwin, Western New England University |
Saturday, January 26 |
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| 8:00 - 10:00 am |
Registration and Continental Breakfast Gittis 214 |
| 9:00 - 10:15 am |
Panel 5: Gender and Citizenship* Gittis 214 |
| Moderator: | Samuel V. Jones, The John Marshall Law School |
| Panelists: |
Women, Weapons, and the Wars on Crime and Terror: Relating Interest Convergence Theory and National Security Interest to America’s Fight Against Sex Trafficking Crisarla Houston, University of the District of Columbia American Social Conservatives’ War on Contraception Sydney Howe-Barksdale, Widener University Is There a Convergence Here?: Race, Gender & The Fair Labor Standards Act Bekah Mandell, National Directors Workers’ Alliance; Community College of Vermont |
| 10:15 - 10:30 am | Break |
| 10:30 - 11:30 am | Concurrent Works in Progress 3 |
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Tanenbaum 112 Tanenbaum 253 Tanenbaum 320 Tanenbaum 345 |
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Lunch and Video Presentation Fitts Auditorium, Golkin 100 |
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| 11:30 - 12:00 pm | Lunch |
| 12:00 – 1:00 pm |
Video Presentation* Domestic Violence and Immigrant Women Regina Austin, University of Pennsylvania Law School |
| 1:00 - 1:15 pm | Break |
| 1:15 - 2:30 pm |
Panel 6: Redefined Through Neutrality: Modern Movement of Exclusion and the Meaning of Citizenship* Gittis 214 |
| Moderator: | Donald Tibbs, Drexel University |
| Panelists: |
A Price Too High: Voter Suppression and the Redefinition of Citizenship Atiba Ellis, West Virginia University The Curious Legal Etymology of American “Civil Rights”: U.S. Federal Civil Rights Law and the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination William Rhee, West Virginia University Boricua Certificado: Law 191 and Decertifying Citizenship Melinda Molina, Capital University Juror Language Accommodation in Theory and Practice Jasmine Gonzales Rose, University of Pittsburgh |
| 2:30 - 2:45 pm | Break |
| 2:45 - 3:45 pm | Concurrent Works in Progress 4 |
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Tanenbaum 112 Tanenbaum 253 Tanenbaum 320 Tanenbaum 345 |
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| 3:45 - 4:00 pm | Break |
| 4:00 - 5:15 pm |
Panel 7: Modern State, National Security, and the Limits of Citizens’ Claim* Gittis 214 |
| Moderator: | Ruth Gordon, Villanova University |
| Panelists: |
The Sparkle of Sovereignty: A Citizen and Torture, Military Commissions, and the War in Iraq |
| 5:15 - 5:45 pm |
Final Word
From Lincoln to King and Beyond: The Unfinished Journey Toward Full Emancipation |
* Panels eligible for CLE credit. Panels are eligible for 1 credit each.
This program has been approved for 8.0 hours of substantive law credit and 1.0 hour of ethics credit for Pennsylvania lawyers. CLE credit may be available in other jurisdictions as well. Attendees seeking CLE should bring separate payment ($90 fee, or $25 fee for public interest/non-profit attorneys) - cash or check- made payable to “The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania.” If you are not attending the entire conference and are seeking CLE credit, the fee is $15 per credit hour.