Events & Activities
Lectures
Beginning in 2010, CLEAR has brought nationally recognized speakers to UCI Law. Details >
Perspectives Reading Group
CLEAR co-sponsors a reading group every academic year. The Perspectives Reading Group serves as an informal setting where students and professors can examine issues of concern or importance to marginalized groups, focusing on a particular issue or demographic group at each meeting. Details >
Symposia
CLEAR hosts symposia bringing together academics, legal practictioners, policy makers, and other contributors to examine complex topics such as critical race theory and the interplays between race, class, gender, justice and the law. Details >
Film Screenings
CLEAR hosts screenings throughout the year in which films addressing issues of race, gender, marginalized communities and other topics of interest are presented to introduce particular perspectives and facilitate audience discussion. Details>
Upcoming Events
CLEAR | Distinguished Lecture: Deborah N. Archer - Dividing Lines: How Transportation Infrastructure Reinforces Racial Inequality.
CLEAR Welcomes Deborah N. Archer to discuss Dividing Lines: How Transportation Infrastructure Reinforces Racial Inequality. To request reasonable...
Past Events
CLEAR | Legal Phantoms: Executive Action and the Haunting Failures of Immigration Law
The UC Irvine Law Center for Law, Equality and Race welcomes Susan Bibler Coutin, Jennifer M. Chacón, and Stephen Lee to discuss their book, Legal Phantoms: Executive Action and the Haunting...
CLSC | Socio-Legal Studies Workshop: Tabrez Ebrahim - What’s in a Muslim Name?: Evidence at the USPTO
Hosted by the UCI Center in Law, Society and Culture, the Socio-Legal Studies Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar that brings together scholars both within and beyond the UCI community working...
CLEAR | Distinguished Lecture: Dylan Penningroth - Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights
The UC Irvine Law Center for Law, Equality and Race welcomes Professor Dylan Penningroth to discuss his book, Before the Movement: The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights (Liveright, 2023). To...
CLEAR | Book Talk | Devon Carbado - Unreasonable: Black Lives, Police Power, and the Fourth Amendment
The UC Irvine Law Center on Law, Equality, and Race (CLEAR) welcomes Devon Carbado to discuss his book, Unreasonable: Black Lives, Police Power, and the Fourth Amendment. To request reasonable...
Book Discussion | Nadia Kim, Refusing Death: Immigrant Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice in LA
Stephen Lee (Professor of Law) and Gregg Macey (Director, UCI Law Center for Land, Environment, and Natural Resources) host a discussion of Nadia Kim's book, Refusing Death: Immigrant Women...
CLEAR | Vitor Araujo Filgueiras - Life After Slavery: Unleashing Workers from the Labor Market in Brazil
The UCI Center in Law, Equality and Race (CLEAR) welcomes Vitor Araujo Filgueiras (UFBA), inaugural CLEAR International Scholar, to present "Life After Slavery: Unleashing Workers from the...
CLEAR & CLSC | The Suburban Crisis: White America and the War on Drugs
A public talk by Matt Lassiter, Professor of History & Arthur F. Thurnau Professor at the University of Michigan.
ART & KRIMES BY KRIMES - Film Screening and Discussion
Hosted by the UCI Law Criminal Justice Clinic, UCI Law Center on Law, Equality and Race, UCI Center in Law, Society, and Culture, UCI-LIFTED, and the Poetic Justice Initiative.
CLEAR | Perspectives - Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
The CLEAR Perspectives series serves as an informal setting where students and faculty can examine issues of concern to marginalized individuals and communities. At each meeting, discussion will be...
CLEAR | Sahar Aziz, The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom
The UCI Center on Law, Equality and Race (CLEAR) welcomes Professor Sahar Aziz to discuss The Racial Muslim: When Racism Quashes Religious Freedom (UC Press, 2021). Comments by Professors Mario...
CLEAR Perspectives | Devon Carbado, Unreasonable: Black Lives, Police Power, and the Fourth Amendment
The UCI Center on Law, Equality, and Race (CLEAR) hosts a Perspectives reading group discussion of Devon Carbado's book, Unreasonable: Black Lives, Police...
Event Archive
The UCI Law Center on Law, Equality, and Race and UCI Department of Criminology, Law & Society welcome Matthew Clair to discuss his book, Privilege and Punishment: How Race...
Discussions of historical racial wrongs in the United States often raise questions about what measures might provide accountability for those wrongs. UCI Law marks the Martin...
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Defining the Future of UCI as a Hispanic-Serving Institution will explore the campus’s efforts to establish UCI's identity as a Hispanic-Serving Institution. As of 2021, there...
Mexican Americans are unique in the panoply of American ethno-racial groups in that they are the descendants of the largest and longest lasting immigration stream in US...
Merge Left: Fusing Race and Class, Winning Elections, and Saving America In 2014, Ian Haney López in Dog Whistle Politics named and explained the coded racial appeals...
Fruteros: Street Vending, Illegality, and Ethnic Community in Los Angeles examines the social worlds of young Latino street vendors as they navigate the complexities of local...
The first comprehensive history of the DREAM Act and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) In 1982, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled in Plyler v. Doe that...
This session will discuss James Baldwin's book, The Fire Next Time (Dial Press, 1963). Publisher's introduction: A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The...
Of Love and Papers explores how immigration policies are fundamentally reshaping Latino families. Drawing on two waves of interviews with undocumented young adults, Dr. Laura...
Californians have endured a statewide ban on race- and gender-based affirmative action policies since the passage of Proposition 209, which is widely recognized for its...
A quarter of young adults in the U.S. today are the children of immigrants, and Latinos are the largest minority group. In Stagnant Dreamers, sociologist and social policy...
A timely and groundbreaking argument that all Americans must grapple with Latinos’ dynamic racial identity—because it impacts everything we think we know about race in...
The Center on Law, Equality and Race (CLEAR) invites you to the following event: 'Yonder they do not love your flesh': Mourning, Anti-Blackness, and Claiming All of...
"What we do today, matters for the future." ~ Dr. Judy Tzu-Chun Wu UCI Counts! The Importance of the 2020 Census Hosted By: School of Social Sciences Presented By: UCI...
Friday March 6 - Saturday March 7 12-7pm Free and open to the public, reservations recommended Beall Center for Art and Technology Claire Trevor School of the Arts, UCI RSVP...
This session will discuss Eric Foner's book, The Second Founding: How the Civil War and Reconstruction Remade the Constitution (W.W. Norton, 2019). Publisher's description: ...
NECESSITY Oil, Water, and Climate Resistance Directed by Jan Haaken & Samantha Praus Grounded in people and places at the heart of the climate crisis, "Necessity" traces the...
This session will discuss Neda Maghbouleh's book, The Limits of Whiteness: Iranian Americans and the Everyday Politics of Race (Stanford University Press, 2017). Publisher's...
Hearing Sandra Bland Part 2: Black Speakers, White Listeners: An Interactive Linguistic Analysis Nicole R. Holliday, Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics and...
This session will discuss Ibram X. Kendi's book, How to Be an Antiracist (One World, 2019). Publisher's introduction: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the National Book...-
Hearing Sandra Bland Part 1: What Sound Tells Us About How to Get Away with Murder Sora Han, Associate Professor, Criminology, Law & Society, School of Law, African American...
THE INFILTRATORS is a docu-thriller that tells the true story of young immigrants who get arrested by Border Patrol, and put in a shadowy for-profit detention center – on...
The UCI Law Environmental Law Society presents: Company Town Film Screening and Discussion A groundbreaking investigative documentary that tells the story of Crossett,...-
American Monument is an artwork by lauren woods that prompts consideration of the cultural circumstances under which African-Americans lose their lives to police brutality. A...
Join us for a discussion with Stanford Professor Jennifer Eberhardt about her book, Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do. Dr....
This session will discuss Jennifer L. Eberhardt's book, Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do (Penguin Random House,...
This session will discuss Khaled A. Beydoun's book, American Islamophobia: Understanding the Roots and Rise of Fear (UC Press, 2019). Publisher's introduction: The term...
Meera E. Deo, Professor of Law at Thomas Jefferson School of Law and the Director of the Law School Survey of Student Engagement (LSSSE), will discuss her book, Unequal...
A conversation with Janice Munemitsu and Judge Joanne Motoike Orange County United Way is proud to partner with UCI School of Law to host an informative session highlighting...
- April 8, 2018: Film Screening, Abacus: Small Enough to Jail. Details >
- March 16-17, 2018: Race, Inequality, and Debt Symposium. Details >
- February 13, 2018: Distinguished Critical Race Theory Lecture: Paul Butler, Chokehold: Policing Black Men. 5:30–7:00 p.m., Edu 1111. Details >
- February 8, 2018: Author Meets Readers with Julian Lim, Porous Borders: Multiracial Migrations and the Law in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands. 6:00–7:30 p.m., Law 3500. Details >
- January 22, 2018: Lisa Sun-Hee Park, Medical Deportations: Blurring the Boundaries of Health Care & Immigration Policy. 4:30–6:00 p.m., Law 3500. Details >
- October 30, 2017: Anti-Blackness and the American Dream: Revisiting the 1992 L.A. Uprisings. This event featured Professor Claire Jean Kim and Professor Jody Armour discussing the L.A. uprisings and the broader racial landscape that has defined Los Angeles as well as the larger elements of anti-black racism that continues to define American life today. Moderated by Professor Stephen Lee. 12:00–1:00 p.m. Edu 1131. Details>
- April 10, 2017: Jason Okonofua, "When Bias and Threat Persistently Interact," 4:30–6:00 p.m., Law 3750. Details >
- March 27, 2017: Visiting Scholar Meera Deo, "Diversity in Legal Academia." 12:05–1:00 p.m., Law 3500. Details >
- Jan. 23, 2017: Author Meets Reader: The Enigma of Diversity by Ellen Berry
- Oct. 28, 2016: What is the Future of Asian American Activism?
Asian Americans are the fastest growing racial minority population in the country. Much of this growth stems from migration. Recent studies show that three out of four Asian Americans were born outside of the United States and that more migrants come to the United States from Asia and the Pacific Islands than from any other part of the world. What does this rapid growth mean for where they will align themselves on public policies like affirmative action? To what extent are Asian Americans joining other groups and to what extent are they striking out on their own? In short: where will Asian Americans position themselves in the U.S. hierarchy? This talk will feature Professor Jennifer Lee and Professor Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, both experts on Asian American communities, who will address this question. Facilitated by UCI Law student The-An Hoang-Nguyen, with introductory remarks by Professor Stephen Lee. - Feb. 5, 2016: Author Meets Readers: Normal Life by Dean Spade
Dean Spade, Associate Professor of Law at Seattle University School of Law, discussed the newly revised and expanded edition of the book, Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law (Duke University Press, 2015). Professor Spade teaches classes related to sexual orientation and gender identity law and law and social movements and has published extensively on issues of law and injustice. - Nov. 16, 2015: Law and Humanities Conversations on Inequality: “The Long Aftermath of Scottsboro”
This reading and discussion focused on If He Hollers Let Him Go by Chester Himes. Presented by CLEAR with UCI School of Law and School of Humanities. Details > - Nov. 2, 2015: Author Meets Readers: Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics and Big Business Recreate Race in the Twenty-First Century by Dorothy Roberts
Co-sponsored with the Center for Biotechnology and Global Health Policy. Details > - Oct. 14, 2015: Law and Humanities Conversations on Inequality: “The Long Aftermath of Scottsboro”
This reading and discussion event focused on Patterson v. State of Alabama. Details > | Patterson case document >
Presented by UCI Law, UCI School of Humanities and the Center on Law, Equality and Race