Tuesday, November 21, 2006 from 2:30 to 3:50 p.m. in Bannan 110
Reception at 5 p.m. in Strong Common Room

Professor Forman co-founded the Maya Angelou Public Charter School in 1997, which is recognized as one of the most successful programs of its kind in the country, combining rigorous education, job training, counseling, mental health services, life skills, and dormitory living for school dropouts and youth who have previously been incarcerated.

Lia Epperson teaches the Fall 2006 Social Justice Workshop: RACE, ECONOMICS, AND EDUCATION.  This workshop examines how race and economic stratification affect educational opportunity.  Education plays a crucial role in sustaining a democratic society.  As such, it is critical that we understand and are able to critique the legal and public policy choices that shape our education system.

The workshop will begin with an examination of the evolution of the concepts of racial integration and equal educational opportunity in the 50 years since Brown v. Board of Education, and the impact of recent Supreme Court affirmative action jurisprudence on integration in public schools.  The next part of the semester will scrutinize school finance litigation and the relationship between school resources and student achievement.  The third part of the semester will explore contemporary issues affecting educational opportunity, including ability grouping, standardized testing and assessment, and the expanding role of law enforcement measures in schools.  The workshop will conclude by critically evaluating various reforms, including the school choice movement and the federal government’s expanding role in educational reform.  In addition to examining legal authority and the work of legal scholars, students will examine the writings of historians, social scientists, and education policy experts.  Visiting scholars and practitioners who work directly with these issues will address the class.

Lectures are open to members of the university community and the general public.

Torts: William L.F. Felstiner, Richard L. Abel, Austin Sarat, The Emergence and Transformation of Disputes: Naming, Blaming, Claiming . . ., 15 LAW & SOC. REV.631(1980-81).

The Social Justice Thursdays series enriches the first-year curriculum by providing law students with a forum in which to discuss social justice issues, alternate perspectives on legal education, and first-year subject areas.
Readings are available in the Library and outside the Faculty Support Office, 214 Bergin Hall.

Co-Sponsored with the Office of Multicultural Learning, College of Arts & Sciences, the Asian Pacific American Law Student Association, and the Public Interest and Social Justice Coalition.

Mari Matsuda Georgetown University

"The Last Public Place: On Schools and Democracy"

Professor Mari Matsuda was a professor of law at the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law before joining the Law Center. Before joining the faculty at UCLA, she was professor of law for eight years at the University of Hawaii School of Law, teaching American Legal History, Torts, Constitutional Law, Civil Rights, and Sex Discrimination. Professor Matsuda has also taught at Stanford Law School and the University of Hiroshima and served as a judicial training consultant in Micronesia and South Africa. She was an associate at the labor law firm of King & Nakamura in Honolulu and was law clerk to the Honorable Herbert Y.C. Choy of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Professor Matsuda has written well-known articles on constitutional law and jurisprudential issues, including hate speech, affirmative action, and feminist theory. Her books include Called From Within (University of Hawaii Press); Words that Wound (Westview Press); and We Won’t Go Back, Making a Case for Affirmative Action (co-authored, Houghton Mifflin). Professor Matsuda is currently serving on the court-appointed Texaco Task Force on Equality and Fairness as part of a record-setting anti-discrimination settlement. She serves on the national advisory boards of Ms. Magazine; the American Civil Liberties Union; and the National Asian Pacific Legal Consortium.

Wine and Cheese Reception immediately following the lecture.

This activity has been approved for Minimum Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) credit by the State Bar of California in the amount of one hour.  Santa Clara University School of Law certifies that this activity conforms to the standards for approved education activities prescribed by the rules and regulations of the State Bar of California governing minimum continuing legal education.

Kevin Bankston (Electronic Frontier Foundation)

Kevin Bankston, a staff attorney specializing in free speech and privacy law, was the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Equal Justice Works/Bruce J. Ennis Fellow for 2003-05. His fellowship project focused on the impact of post-9/11 anti-terrorism laws and surveillance initiatives on online privacy and free expression. Before joining EFF, Mr. Bankston was the Justice William J. Brennan First Amendment Fellow for the American Civil Liberties Union in New York City. At the ACLU, Mr. Bankston litigated Internet-related free speech cases, including First Amendment challenges to both the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (Edelman v. N2H2, Inc.) and a federal statute regulating Internet speech in public libraries (American Library Association v. U.S.). Mr. Bankston received his J.D. in 2001 from the University of Southern California Law Center, and received his undergraduate degree from the University of Texas in Austin.

Ann Brick (ACLU of Northern California)

Ann Brick has served as a staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California since January 1991.  Her work at the ACLU focuses in large part on technology issues, with a particular emphasis on rights of free expression and privacy.  Ms. Brick received her J.D. degree from Boalt Hall (University of California at Berkeley).  Upon graduation from law school, she served as a law clerk to Judge Alfonso J. Zirpoli of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California.

Facilitator: Eric Goldman

Dennis Parker (Director of Racial Justice Program, National ACLU): Discipline Policies and the "School-to-Prison Pipeline"

2:30 to 3:50 p.m. in Wiegand, Arts & Sciences
Reception at 5 p.m. in Strong Common Room

Dennis Parker coordinates the efforts of the ACLU in combating discrimination and addressing other issues that have a disproportionate impact on communities of color. He has written extensively on a range of civil rights issues including educational equity, affirmative action, and testing.

Lia Epperson will teach the Fall 2006 Social Justice Workshop: RACE, ECONOMICS, AND EDUCATION.  This workshop examines how race and economic stratification affect educational opportunity.  Education plays a crucial role in sustaining a democratic society.  As such, it is critical that we understand and are able to critique the legal and public policy choices that shape our education system.

The workshop will begin with an examination of the evolution of the concepts of racial integration and equal educational opportunity in the 50 years since Brown v. Board of Education, and the impact of recent Supreme Court affirmative action jurisprudence on integration in public schools.  The next part of the semester will scrutinize school finance litigation and the relationship between school resources and student achievement.  The third part of the semester will explore contemporary issues affecting educational opportunity, including ability grouping, standardized testing and assessment, and the expanding role of law enforcement measures in schools.  The workshop will conclude by critically evaluating various reforms, including the school choice movement and the federal government’s expanding role in educational reform.  In addition to examining legal authority and the work of legal scholars, students will examine the writings of historians, social scientists, and education policy experts.  Visiting scholars and practitioners who work directly with these issues will address the class.

Lectures are open to members of the university community and the general public.

Civil Procedure/Constitutional Law: Robert S. Chang, Toward an Asian American Legal Scholarship: Critical Race Theory, Post-Structuralism, and Narrative Space, 81 CAL. L. REV. 1241, 1 ASIAN L.J. 1 (1994).
Facilitator: Lia Epperson

The Social Justice Thursdays series enriches the first-year curriculum by providing law students with a forum in which to discuss social justice issues, alternate perspectives on legal education, and first-year subject areas.
Readings are available in the Library and outside the Faculty Support Office, 214 Bergin Hall.

Bill Quigley, Loyola New Orleans
"Katrina and Civil and Human Rights"

Thursday, October 26 in the Benson Williman Room from Noon to 1 p.m.
Brown bag lunch with pizza provided.

Co-Sponsored by the Center for Social Justice and Public Service and The Public and Social Justice Coalition

Bill Quigley, Professor of Law at Loyola New Orleans College of Law, is a leader in the Katrina recovery effort and a nationally-recognized expert in poverty law and social justice.

Susan Sandler (President, Justice Matters Institute): Addressing Discriminatory Effects of High Stakes Testing in California Public Schools

From 2:30-3:50 p.m., St. Thomas Moore 101
Reception at 5 p.m. in Strong Common Room

Susan Sandler conducts research, advocacy and policy work to increase access to educational opportunity for low-income communities and communities of color in California, with a particular focus on building coalitions between parents, youth, teachers, and advocates to win changes in discriminatory school district or state policies.

Lia Epperson will teach the Fall 2006 Social Justice Workshop: RACE, ECONOMICS, AND EDUCATION.  This workshop examines how race and economic stratification affect educational opportunity.  Education plays a crucial role in sustaining a democratic society.  As such, it is critical that we understand and are able to critique the legal and public policy choices that shape our education system.

The workshop will begin with an examination of the evolution of the concepts of racial integration and equal educational opportunity in the 50 years since Brown v. Board of Education, and the impact of recent Supreme Court affirmative action jurisprudence on integration in public schools.  The next part of the semester will scrutinize school finance litigation and the relationship between school resources and student achievement.  The third part of the semester will explore contemporary issues affecting educational opportunity, including ability grouping, standardized testing and assessment, and the expanding role of law enforcement measures in schools.  The workshop will conclude by critically evaluating various reforms, including the school choice movement and the federal government’s expanding role in educational reform.  In addition to examining legal authority and the work of legal scholars, students will examine the writings of historians, social scientists, and education policy experts.  Visiting scholars and practitioners who work directly with these issues will address the class.

Lectures are open to members of the university community and the general public.

Property/Contract Law: Patricia J. Williams, Alchemical Notes: Reconstructing Ideas from Deconstructed Rights, 22 HARV. C.R. C.L. L. REV. 401 (1987).

The Social Justice Thursdays series enriches the first-year curriculum by providing law students with a forum in which to discuss social justice issues, alternate perspectives on legal education, and first-year subject areas.
Readings are available in the Library and outside the Faculty Support Office, 214 Bergin Hall.

Clarence Darrow, America’s most hated and celebrated attorney, comes to life in San José on October 14
 
Don’t miss Clarence Darrow: The Search for Justice
at 2 p.m. or 7:30 p.m. on October 14, 2006
at First Unitarian Church of San José
 
On October 14, a unique event will bring American social justice history to life, and show us how the social and political issues of our nation’s most famous—and infamous—lawyer still resonate in our lives today.
 
Clarence Darrow: The Search for Justice will be performed by Gary L. Anderson, the country’s renowned portrayer of Clarence Darrow.  The Eureka Times Standard says of his performance, “Anderson’s Darrow is in the same league as Holbrook’s Mark Twain.”
 
 
The most hated and celebrated attorney in American history
 
Clarence Darrow (1857-1938) was often referred to by the press as the “Attorney for the Damned” and by lawyers as the “Lion of the Courtroom”. The Christian Fundamentalists, however, called him, “The Great Infidel.” Life Magazine called Darrow “One of the most influential men of the 20th century.” He has become a folk hero, and, along with Atticus Finch from the novel and movie To Kill a Mockingbird, he has been the inspiration of untold numbers of lawyers. 
 
Order Your Advance Tickets Today
 
Two shows Saturday, October 14 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.
First Unitarian Church of San José, 160 North Third Street, San Jose.
 
Advance tickets: $15 General Admission or $12 Students with I.D.
Tickets at the door: $20 but advanced purchase is strongly recommended.
 
Wine and cheese reception and discussion with Mr. Darrow from 6:15-7:15 p.m.
Limited to 50 participants; tickets $35.
 
This event is co-sponsored by the First Unitarian Church of San Jose and the Santa Clara Valley Chapter of the ACLU.
 
To order tickets, mail check (made payable to FUCSJ) to:
FUCSJ—Darrow
160 North Third Street
San José, California 95112
 
 
For more information, call the Darrow information line: (408) 293-1178.  Additional event information at http://web.mac.com/patriciamassey/iWeb/Site/Clarence%20Darrow%20home.html

Charles Lawrence (Professor of Law, Georgetown University): Politics of Reforming Urban Schools

*2:30 to 3:50 p.m. in Bannan 110
Reception at 5 p.m. in the Adobe Lodge

Professor Lawrence is best known for his work in anti-discrimination law, equal protection, and critical race theory, and has served on the District of Columbia Board of Education.

Lia Epperson teaches the Fall 2006 Social Justice Workshop: RACE, ECONOMICS, AND EDUCATION.  This workshop examines how race and economic stratification affect educational opportunity.  Education plays a crucial role in sustaining a democratic society.  As such, it is critical that we understand and are able to critique the legal and public policy choices that shape our education system.

The workshop will begin with an examination of the evolution of the concepts of racial integration and equal educational opportunity in the 50 years since Brown v. Board of Education, and the impact of recent Supreme Court affirmative action jurisprudence on integration in public schools.  The next part of the semester will scrutinize school finance litigation and the relationship between school resources and student achievement.  The third part of the semester will explore contemporary issues affecting educational opportunity, including ability grouping, standardized testing and assessment, and the expanding role of law enforcement measures in schools.  The workshop will conclude by critically evaluating various reforms, including the school choice movement and the federal government’s expanding role in educational reform.  In addition to examining legal authority and the work of legal scholars, students will examine the writings of historians, social scientists, and education policy experts.  Visiting scholars and practitioners who work directly with these issues will address the class.

Lectures are open to members of the university community and the general public.

José Padilla
California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc.

José R. Padilla was born and raised in the Imperial Valley; his parents came from farm worker families. He graduated from Stanford University in 1974 with a major in Psychology. Deciding that he could best serve his community through legal advocacy, Mr. Padilla attended Boalt Hall School of Law, U. C. Berkeley. After graduation in 1978, he started what has become a 28 year legal career with California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA) Inc., advocating for the rights of California’s farm worker and rural poverty communities. Mr. Padilla spent his first 6 years with CRLA as a staff attorney and later as Directing Attorney of CRLA’s Imperial Valley, El Centro office. In El Centro, his work focused on immigration, civil rights and education law. In 1984 Mr. Padilla was selected to serve as the Executive Director of CRLA. As Director he oversees the administration of what is considered one of the premier and most respected legal services programs in the country. Through its Migrant component, CRLA’s legal work emphasizes assistance to the special needs of the farm worker community with cases focusing on pesticide exposure, housing, labor, rural education, civil rights, immigration and environmental justice. Annually, CRLA assists more than 40,000 rural residents with legal and other services.

Facilitator: Angelo Ancheta

Social Justice Monday, Oct. 16, Noon to 1 p.m., Bannan 135. Pizza provided. Limited space available for lunch with Mr. Padilla on Monday and Tuesday, Oct. 16 & 17.

Wine & Cheese Reception on Monday, Oct. 16, at 5 p.m. Strong Common Room (co-sponsored with PI&SJ Coalition, LaRaza, and BGLAd)

Office Hours: Monday, Oct. 16, 2:30 to 4 p.m., Tuesday, Oct. 17, 10 to 11 a.m. and 2:30 to 4 p.m.

E-mail socialjustice@scu.edu, or call (408) 551-1720 to sign up to meet with Mr. Padilla for office hours or for lunch after the lecture.

Edward Steinman (Professor of Law, Santa Clara University): Bilingual Education

2:30 to 3:50 p.m. in Wiegand, Arts & Sciences
 
Professor Steinman has argued numerous times before the U.S. Supreme Court and was successful in three of these cases, including a landmark decision providing special education rights for millions of non-English-speaking and limited-English-speaking children.

Lia Epperson will teach the Fall 2006 Social Justice Workshop: RACE, ECONOMICS, AND EDUCATION.  This workshop examines how race and economic stratification affect educational opportunity.  Education plays a crucial role in sustaining a democratic society.  As such, it is critical that we understand and are able to critique the legal and public policy choices that shape our education system.

The workshop will begin with an examination of the evolution of the concepts of racial integration and equal educational opportunity in the 50 years since Brown v. Board of Education, and the impact of recent Supreme Court affirmative action jurisprudence on integration in public schools.  The next part of the semester will scrutinize school finance litigation and the relationship between school resources and student achievement.  The third part of the semester will explore contemporary issues affecting educational opportunity, including ability grouping, standardized testing and assessment, and the expanding role of law enforcement measures in schools.  The workshop will conclude by critically evaluating various reforms, including the school choice movement and the federal government’s expanding role in educational reform.  In addition to examining legal authority and the work of legal scholars, students will examine the writings of historians, social scientists, and education policy experts.  Visiting scholars and practitioners who work directly with these issues will address the class.

Lectures are open to members of the university community and the general public.

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Margaret E. Montoya, Máscaras, Trenzas, y Greñas: Un/masking the Self While Un/braiding Latina Stories and Legal Discourse, 15 CHICANO-LATINO L.REV. 1, 2-26, 17 HARV. WOMEN’S L.J. 185, 186-209 (1994).
Facilitator: Ellen Kreitzberg

The Social Justice Thursdays series enriches the first-year curriculum by providing law students with a forum in which to discuss social justice issues, alternate perspectives on legal education, and first-year subject areas.
Readings are available in the Library and outside the Faculty Support Office, 214 Bergin Hall.

"Supreme Court Preview: A Panel Discussion of the Court’s Upcoming Term"

Come to a roundtable discussion on latest developments in the U.S. Supreme Court.

FEATURING: Brad Joondeph, Margalynne Armstrong, Michael Rooke-Ley, Lia Epperson, & Ed Steinman

The Social Science Research Council www.ssrc.org has announced the first round of small grants for academic-advocacy collaboration in the media and communications field. The first round will provide grants for research that supports advocacy, organizing, policy and/or campaign uses in the media and communications field in the US. The grants are intended for short-term work, completable and usable by advocacy partners within the next 4-12 months.

Six grants have been awarded in this first round to Children Now, the Consumers Federation of America, the Latinos and Media Project, Media Alliance, the Minority Media & Telecommunications Council and Radio Bilingüe.

Principal researchers Allen Hammond, IV and Catherine Sandoval’s project is a survey on the relationship between minority and female ownership and media consolidation with Minority Media & Telecommunications Council, www.mmtconline.org.

The Minority Media & Telecommunications Council (MMTC) seeks to develop a survey instrument that can be used to discern the relationship between minority and female ownership and media consolidation. They seek to survey minority and female owners who have entered or exited the communications industry between 2001 and 2005 to determine the extent to which various factors may have affected the rate of entry and/or exit.  MMTC’s study will allow policy makers, the FCC, and advocates for a diverse media to better understand and address the structural and non-structural impediments that minority and women media owners face in the current media environment.

Sept. 21 Introduction to Legal Education (cont’d.)
Stephanie M. Wildman, The Classroom Climate, in LOOKING AT LAW SCHOOL (Stephen Gillers ed. 1997).
Facilitator: Ida Bostian

The Social Justice Thursdays series enriches the first-year curriculum by providing law students with a forum in which to discuss social justice issues, alternate perspectives on legal education, and first-year subject areas.
Readings are available in the Library and outside the Faculty Support Office, 214 Bergin Hall.

CYNTHIA CHANDLER
Co-Founder & Acting Director of Justice Now

Cynthia Chandler is the co-founder and Acting Director of Justice Now, an innovative legal and human rights organization that partners with women in prison and local communities to create a safe, compassionate world without prisons.  Since 2000, Justice Now has won the early release of 22 people dying in prison, annually provided legal services and health information to over 1,000 women in prison who otherwise would have no assistance, developed a Human Rights Documentation Program that is the first to train people in prison to document abuses they experience, and partnered with women in side and coalitions outside prison to divert public funds away from imprisonment and into education and services.

Before co-founding Justice Now, Cynthia received an echoing green fellowship to found and direct Women’s Positive Legal Action Network, one of the first organizations in the United States dedicated to advocating on behalf of HIV+ women in prison.  Her work included developing alternative sentencing plans for HIV+ women facing criminal sentencing.  Over the years Cynthia has been active with numerous prisoner rights organizations, including being a founding member of Critical Resistance, a national campaign against the prison industrial complex.  

Facilitator: Ellen Kreitzberg

This annual auction is the Endowment’s primary fundraising event to fund Summer Fellowships for law students and Income Supplement Grants for graduates. The auction proceeds enable public interest and social justice law practice. The evening’s events will feature a live auction, music, food, and dancing. Ticket sales begin Monday, September 4 in Bannan Lounge until Friday, September 15. Student ticket prices are $35 in advance and $40 at the door. Non-students prices are $40 in advance and $50 at the door.

Rachel Moran (Professor of Law, Boalt Hall.): The Heirs of Brown: A Case Study of Grutter v. Bollinger

From 2:30 to 3:50 p.m. in Wiegand, Arts & Sciences
Reception at 5 p.m. in Strong Common Room
        
Professor Moran has published and lectured extensively in the areas of affirmative action, desegregation, and bilingual education.  

Lia Epperson will teach the Fall 2006 Social Justice Workshop: RACE, ECONOMICS, AND EDUCATION.  This workshop examines how race and economic stratification affect educational opportunity.  Education plays a crucial role in sustaining a democratic society.  As such, it is critical that we understand and are able to critique the legal and public policy choices that shape our education system.

The workshop will begin with an examination of the evolution of the concepts of racial integration and equal educational opportunity in the 50 years since Brown v. Board of Education, and the impact of recent Supreme Court affirmative action jurisprudence on integration in public schools.  The next part of the semester will scrutinize school finance litigation and the relationship between school resources and student achievement.  The third part of the semester will explore contemporary issues affecting educational opportunity, including ability grouping, standardized testing and assessment, and the expanding role of law enforcement measures in schools.  The workshop will conclude by critically evaluating various reforms, including the school choice movement and the federal government’s expanding role in educational reform.  In addition to examining legal authority and the work of legal scholars, students will examine the writings of historians, social scientists, and education policy experts.  Visiting scholars and practitioners who work directly with these issues will address the class.

Lectures are open to members of the university community and the general public.

Learn About Funding Social Justice Summer Work

Justice John Paul Stevens Public Interest Fellowships:
Two $5,000 Fellowships to be Awarded for Summer 2007
In honor of United States Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, Skip Paul ’75 established the Justice John Paul Stevens Public Interest Fellowships at Santa Clara University School of Law.  These Fellowships provide financial assistance to Santa Clara University Law Students to fund public interest and social justice law summer positions.
Eligibility:  Fellowships will be awarded to Santa Clara University Law School students who have completed at least one year of full-time or part-time study ***by the time the fellowship will begin***. Each applicant must secure a full-time summer law position with a public interest and social justice organization.

Public Interest Endowment Summer Fellowships:
Fellowships to be Awarded for Summer 2007
The Public Interest Endowment provides funding for public interest and social justice work done by law students in the summer months.  This fellowship opportunity is for Santa Clara University Law Students working full-time in qualifying public interest and social justice positions.

Eligibility:  Fellowships will be awarded to Santa Clara University Law School students who have completed at least one year of full-time or part-time study ***by the time the fellowship will begin***.  Each applicant must secure a full-time summer law position with a public interest and social justice organization.