The Symposium brings together essays and articles from six legal scholars, addressing the notion of “post-racialism” and its relevance (or not) for legal practice. Articles tackle various areas of the law, from immigration law to constitutional law to community lawyering, but are connected in their query of this seemingly amorphous new term: “post-racial.” In addition, Benjamin Wilson, a Washington D.C. attorney in private practice and the recipient of the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs Willy Branton Award, will give a keynote address on Friday morning.

The Symposium is a collaborative enterprise among diverse student groups at Georgetown Law, including The Georgetown Law Journal, the Black Law Students Association, Women of Color Collective, the Brothers’ Forum, The Modern Critical Race Perspectives Journal, and the Global Race and Identity Project.

WHEN:
Friday, March 26, 2010, 9:30 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.

WHERE:
Georgetown University Law Center
McDonough Hall, Room 203
600 New Jersey Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20001

SCHEDULE:
Friday, March 26th

9:30 – Coffee and Welcome, 2nd Floor McDonough Hall Atrium

10:00 – Keynote Address, 203 McDonough Hall
Benjamin F. Wilson, Managing Principal of Beveridge & Diamond and 2009 recipient of the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Development Wiley Branton Award for outstanding achievement in civil rights law

10:45 – 12:45 – Panel Discussion, 203 McDonough Hall
Professor Anthony Alfieri, The University of Miami School of Law, Post-racialism in the Inner City: Structure and Culture in Lawyering

Dean Erwin Chemerinsky, Professor Mario L. Barnes, and Professor Trina Jones, University of California Irvine School of Law, A Post-race Equal Protection?

Dean Kevin Johnson, University of California Davis School of Law, How Racial Profiling in America Became the Law of the Land: United States v. Brignoni-Ponce and Whren v. United States and the Need for Truly Rebellious Lawyering

Professor Angela Onwuachi-Willig, The University of Iowa College of Law, Another Hair Piece: Exploring New Strands of Analysis Under Title VII

Professor Girardeau Spann, Georgetown University Law Center, Disparate Impact

12:45 – 2:00 Working Lunch, 203 McDonough Hall
The working lunch will provide attendees with the opportunity to engage directly with the Symposium authors around the themes of the panel discussion.

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Georgetown Law Journal, Issue 98.2 (January 2010)

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Georgetown Law Journal, Issue 98.2 (January 2010)

Articles

Regulating Bankers’ Pay

Lucian A. Bebchuk & Holger Spamann

Saving Up for Bankruptcy

Ronald J. Mann & Katherine Porter

Codified Canons and the Common Law of Interpretation

Jacob Scott

Lecture

Constitutional Law and International Law: National Exceptionalism and the Democratic Deficit?

The Hon. Michael Kirby AC CMG

Notes

Nonincorporation of the Establishment Clause: Satisfying the Demands of Equality, Pluralism, and Originalism

Rupal M. Doshi

Rights Clash: How Conflicts Between Gay Rights and Religious Freedoms Challenge the Legal System

Laura K. Klein

Biologics Revolution: The Intersection of Biotechnology, Patent Law, and Pharmaceutical Regulation

Joyce Tam

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“A Vain and Idle Enactment”: Could McDonald v. Chicago Un-Slaughter the Privileges or Immunities Clause?

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Alan Gura, Partner, Gura & Possessky, PLLC; Lead Counsel, District of Columbia v. Heller; Lead Counsel, McDonald v. Chicago

Randy Barnett, Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory, Georgetown University Law Center

Kurt Lash, James P. Bradley Chair of Constitutional Law, Loyola Law School; Author, The Origins of the Privileges or Immunities Clause (Georgetown Law Journal, forthcoming)

David Gans, Program Director, Constitutional Accountability Center; Author, The Gem of the Constitution: The Text and History of the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment

This event is open to the public and sponsored by The Georgetown Law Journal, the Georgetown Law chapters of the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy and the Federalist Society for Law & Public Policy Studies, and the Georgetown Law Militia.

Friday, November 13, 2009, 12:30 – 2:30 p.m.
Georgetown University Law Center
McDonough Hall – Hart Auditorium
600 New Jersey Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C. 20001

The panelists will discuss the current Supreme Court case McDonald v. Chicago, in which the Court will decide whether the 2nd Amendment is incorporated to apply to the states. Following up on its decision in District of Columbia v. Heller, the Court may decide to breathe life into the Privileges or Immunities Clause of the 14th Amendment, a clause which has essentially remained “vain and idle” since the Slaughterhouse cases in 1873.

The panelists will provide a historical understanding of the Privileges or Immunities Clause, whether it can properly serve as a vehicle for incorporation, and the implications that would result if the Court adopts this position.

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