Call for Panelists

Call for Panelists for the 2012 Southeast/Southwest People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference 

 

The 2012 Southeast/Southwest People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference will take place in Birmingham, Alabama.  Throughout the globe, Birmingham resonates as the epicenter of the modern civil rights movement for racial equality and justice.  Hosting the 2012 meeting of the SE/SW People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference offers a unique opportunity to evaluate critically our present state of effectuating substantive legal, political, social, and economic transformation thorough advocacy, scholarship and praxis.  The SE/SW People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference issues this call for panelists who will offer valuable perspectives on the ways in which we might assess our efficacy in the above areas in scholarship, advocacy and praxis. Panels will consist of respondents to this call for panelists as well as invited scholars.

The Conference has three primary tracks which will include panels that elaborate on the broader thematic tracks.  The tracks are: (1) Addressing Challenges in and to the Legal Academy; (2) Forging and Responding to Change in Our Communities; and (3) Actualizing Social and Economic Justice. 

Track I: Addressing Challenges in and to the Legal Academy

 
  • With or Without Tenure: Institutional Challenges and Hierarchies
  • Taking Our Pulse: Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Legal Academy

Track II:  Forging and Responding to Change in Our Communities

 
  • Immigration Law and Policy
  • International Law and Human Rights
  • Intersection and Divergence of Interests: Coalition Building among People of Color Communities 

Track III: Actualizing Social and Economic Justice


  • Is Homeownership for White People? Interrogating the “American Dream”

     
  • Race and Bioethics
  • Race, Culture, and Intellectual Property

To be considered as a panelist, please submit a statement of interest (1-2 paragraph description of your presentation is sufficient) to Professor Charlton Copeland, University of Miami Law School, via email at ccopeland@law.miami.edu by Monday, February 6, 2012. Panelists will be selected by February 13th. 

All panelists will be responsible for paying their Conference registration fee and travel expenses. Online conference registration is now available at the following website: https://www.acteva.com/go/seswpocc.  

Conference information may also be found on the conference websites: http://www.samford.edu/cumberland/seswpocc2012/ or www.seswpocc.org.  
For any inquiries about the call for papers or conference program, please contact Professor Charlton Copeland, University of Miami Law School at ccopeland@law.miami.edu.