Critical Race Theory and Empirical Methods Symposium

Friday, April 20, 2012
University of California, Irvine School of Law,  EDU 1111 (Directions)

For the past two years, a group of scholars from law, the humanities and the social sciences have gathered together as part of a project designed to engage the previously unexplored confluences between empirical studies of race and identity and critical work looking at similar subject matters. Previously, these scholars met as a hosted working group, where legal academics and scholars from various disciplines shared their work and critiqued the methods and substance of these in-progress writings on race.

Co-hosted by the UCI Center on Law, Equality and Race (CLEAR), this will be the first public symposium of the project, featuring panels that offer legal and social science perspectives on various issues at the intersection of the empirical and doctrinal/critical study of race. A number of papers from this symposium and a companion working group meeting will be published in the Fall 2012 issue of the UC Irvine Law Review.

Attendance is free, but please RSVP online for catering and seating purposes.

Featured Speakers

Mario Barnes
UC Irvine School of Law

Paul Butler
George Washington
University Law School

Devon Carbado
UCLA School of Law

Lauren Edelman
UC Berkeley School of Law

Kaaryn Gustafson
Univ. of Connecticut
School of Law

Ange-Marie Hancock
Univ. of Southern California
Dept. of Political Science

Stephen Lee
UC Irvine School of Law

Osagie Obasogie
UC Hastings
College of the Law

Henry Weinstein
UC Irvine School of Law

Joan Williams
UC Hastings
College of the Law

Symposium Schedule

2:00 p.m. Welcome and Introductions
Mario Barnes and Henry Weinstein, Directors, UCI Center for Law, Equality and Race

2:15 p.m. Introductory Address
Osagie Obasogie and Joan Williams

2:30 p.m.Panel #1 - Intersectionality

  • Lauren Edelman, University of California, Berkeley School of Law/JSP
    Multiple Disadvantages: An Empirical Test of Intersectionality Theory in EEO Litigation
  • Ange-Marie Hancock, University of Southern California, Dept. of Political Science
    Intersectionality, Empirical Research, and Social Justice in the 21st Century
  • Joan Williams, University of California, Hastings College of the Law
    Double Jeopardy: How Gender Bias Differs By Race
  • Panel Moderator: Devon Carbado, UCLA School of Law

4:00 p.m. Break

4:15 p.m. Panel #2 – Race and Crime

  • Paul Butler, George Washington University Law School
    Seize and Search: Four Ways of Feeling a Black Man
  • Kaaryn Gustafson, University of Connecticut School of Law
    Where Hidden Paths Converge: The Criminalization of Marginalized Women
  • Stephen Lee, University of California, Irvine School of Law
    Misdemeanors, Membership, and Mercy
  • Moderator: Mario Barnes, University of California, Irvine School of Law

5:45 p.m. Reception – Law School Courtyard