Happy third week of the semester. We kick-off this week with our Critical Perspectives on 1L Classes, please join us Monday and Tuesday. We have a great program planned for you this Spring Semester, please stay tuned. |
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Aoki One L Critical Race, Professor Rogers - Property Law
MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 2023
12:00PM - 1:00PM
King Hall, Room 1001 and via Zoom
Are you interested in critical and social justice perspectives on your first-year classes? Would you like to get to know more about the scholarship of King Hall professors? The Critical Perspectives on First-Year Classes speaker series is for you!
The purpose of the “Critical Perspectives” talks, sponsored by the Aoki Center, is twofold. First, we seek to expose first-year students to critical perspectives that often do not make it onto the syllabus of regular first-year classes. Given the high level of interest among King Hall students in social justice, this exposure will connect many students to the concerns and perspectives that brought them to law school in the first place.
The second goal of the series is to connect King Hall students more closely with their faculty. King Hall has an extraordinarily accomplished faculty with expertise in areas of race, immigration, gender, and sexuality. Through these lunch talks, interested students can learn more about the cutting edge of legal scholarship in these fields and develop a better understanding of faculty research projects.
Everyone, especially first-year students, is invited to attend.
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Black Lives and Spatial Matters: Policing Blackness and Practicing Freedom
Tuesday, January 31, 2023
King Hall, Room 1301
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Lunch Provided
Dr. Jodi Rios
Activist Scholar
Jodi Rios is a scholar, designer, and activist whose work is located at the intersection of physical, social, and political space. Her research studies processes of racialization and resistance, with an emphasis on the ways by which differentiated rights and degrees of citizenship are produced and contested in and through metropolitan space. Originally trained as an architect and urban designer, Jodi holds an interdisciplinary PhD in Visual and Narrative Culture from UC Berkeley. Her work draws from multiple disciplinary perspectives, including anthropology, law, geography, and design, and is grounded in queer and Black studies. She taught architecture and urban design for fifteen years at Washington University in St. Louis and is currently an activist scholar based in Davis and St. Louis.
Policing Blackness and Practicing Freedom
Black Lives and Spatial Matters is a call to reconsider the epistemic violence that is committed when scholars, policymakers, and the general public continue to frame Black precarity as just another racial, cultural, or ethnic conflict that can be solved solely through legal, political, or economic means. Jodi Rios argues that the historical and material production of blackness-as-risk is foundational to the historical and material construction of our society and certainly foundational to the construction and experience of metropolitan space. She also considers how an ethics of lived blackness—living fully and visibly in the face of forces intended to dehumanize and erase—can create a powerful counter point to blackness-as-risk. Using a transdisciplinary methodology, Black Lives and Spatial Matters studies cultural, institutional, and spatial politics of race in North St. Louis County, Missouri, as a set of practices that are intimately connected to each other and to global histories of race and race-making. The arguments presented draw from fifteen years of engaged teaching and research and rely on multiple disciplinary perspectives and local knowledge in order to study relationships between interconnected practices and phenomena.
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Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the United States. Taking readers to the frontlines of the magonista uprising and the counterinsurgency campaign that failed to stop them, Kelly Lytle Hernández puts the magonista revolt at the heart of U.S. history.
Kelly Lytle Hernández is a professor of History, African American Studies, and Urban Planning at UCLA where she holds The Thomas E. Lifka Endowed Chair in History and directs the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies. One of the nation’s leading experts on race, immigration, and mass incarceration, she is the author of Migra! A History of the U.S. Border Patrol (University of California Press, 2010), City of Inmates: Conquest, Rebellion, and the Rise of Human Caging in Los Angeles (University of North Carolina Press, 2017), and Bad Mexicans: Race, Empire, and Revolution in the Borderlands (Norton, 2022). She also leads Million Dollar Hoods, a big data research initiative documenting the fiscal and human cost of mass incarceration in Los Angeles. For her historical and contemporary work, Professor Lytle Hernández was named a 2019 MacArthur “Genius” Fellow. She is also an elected member of the Society of American Historians, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Pulitzer Prize Board.
King Hall's Racial Justice Speaker Series
Created in response to the tragic killings by police of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others and the widespread protests that followed, UC Davis Law’s Racial Justice Speaker Series is now in its third year. Reaffirming the law school’s longtime commitment to racial justice, the series invites leading scholars from around the country to explore systemic racism as it pertains to all communities of color and areas of law. The goals are to inform, enlighten, and - most important - engage in meaningful conversation with our King Hall community and the larger public.
** California MCLE credits will be available for all attendees. MCLE certificates will be emailed within a week of the event.
COVID - 19 Guidelines:
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Dean Kevin R. Johnson received the Michael A. Olivas Award, a national award from the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) that recognizes outstanding leadership in diversity and mentoring in the legal academy. |
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Room: Multi-Purpose Room
Location of Event: UC Davis Campus
Cost: Free
Event Type: Environment and Sustainability, Forums, Discussions and Information Sessions, Free Events, Lectures and Seminars
Presented by: UC Davis Institute of the Environment
Institute of the Environment Seminar Series
Author Tracy Perkins will discuss her book Evolution of a Movement: Four Decades of California Environmental Justice Activism with Beth Rose Middleton Manning, professor of Native American studies and director of the Institute of the Environment's Environmental and Climate Justice Hub, and Julie Sze, professor of American studies.
Perkins is an assistant professor in the School for Social Transformation at Arizona State University. Previously, she served as an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at Howard University. A UC Davis alumna, she specializes in social inequality, social movements and the environment through a focus on environmental justice activism. The first 50 attendees to arrive will receive a free copy of Perkins' book!
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Warp Trio: “Black Voices”
Thursday, January 26, 2023, 12:05 – 1pm
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Room: Recital Hall
Location of Event: UC Davis Campus
Cost: Free
Event Type: Arts and Entertainment
Presented by: Music
Sponsored by: a Shinkoskey Noon Concert
Warp Trio: LiKWUiD, spoken word, Josh Henderson, violin, bass, guitar, Ju-Young “J.Y.” Lee, cello, Mikael Darmanie, piano, Rick Martinez, drums. About the Band: Black Voices is an original concert program that integrates classical, jazz, hip-hop, and spoken word—sounds and poetry created by African-American artists—in an effort to lift up lesser-known contributions that define the multifaceted culture of the United States. Featuring the award-winning artist LiKWuiD, the program utilizes poetry of Langston Hughes, Ntozake Shange, and the Sacramento-based Maya Angelou. It also features original spoken word material, set against music by Duke Ellington, William Grant Still, Harry Burleigh, and original compositions by Warp Trio members.
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Book Project: ICE Out of Yuba - Abolishing an ICE Detention Center
Thursday, January 26, 2023
3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
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Location: Online
Cost: Free
Presented by: Holly Cooper, Gabriela Posada and Anuj Shah
Sponsored by: Campus Community Book Project
A presentation about advocacy work to abolition an ICE detention center by Holly Cooper, Co-Director, Immigration Law Clinic and Lecturer, School of Law and School of Law student scholars and JD candidates Gabriela Posada and Anuj Shah.
The 2022-23 book project features a yearlong program around Defund Fear: Safety Without Policing, Prisons and Punishment by Zach Norris, and the overall theme of transformative justice/police reform.
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Cost: Free
Contact Phone #: 5303049517
Event Type: Fairs, Expos and Exhibits
Presented by: Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art
UC Davis Professor Emeritus Mike Henderson’s first solo U.S. museum exhibition in 20 years brings to light the pioneering artist’s rarely seen contributions to the history of contemporary painting and filmmaking, radical Black politics, and to the story of California art. The exhibition integrates paintings and films by Henderson that offer new ideas about Black life in the visual languages of protest, Afro-futurism and surrealism. These works depict scenes of anti-Black violence as well as utopian visions and questions of self-making.
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History made as former immigrant Thien Ho sworn in as Sacramento County District Attorney
“Out of 2,400 elected D.A.s in the country, I’ll be the fifth Asian American. But more than that, what is important is making sure that we represent all communities.”
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On Tuesday, January 3, 2023, Thien Ho was sworn in as Sacramento County’s 36th district attorney and the first person of color to hold the post. At his swearing-in ceremony, Ho said he plans to create an advisory council to the district attorney made up of representatives from diverse communities. He is aware of the distrust and distaste in the DA's office and law enforcement and hopes to build trust with marginalized communities. Although Ho has been described as a centrist, his identity and experiences as an immigrant and refugee shape how he views the criminal justice system. He said that Justice represents accountability and fairness, equality and balance. |
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The Aoki Center Applauds UC Law SF's Name Change |
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The UC Davis Aoki Center for Critical Race and Nation Studies commends the process
and outcome announced December 31, 2022 by the newly renamed University of
California College of Law, San Francisco (UC Law SF), formerly known as the UC Hastings College of Law, to change its name and provide other forms of reparations to the Round Valley Indian Tribes. For the last five years, UC Law SF engaged in a serious investigation into the history and legacy of its founder and first dean, Serranus Hastings, who also served as the first Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court. This investigation revealed that, in the 1850s, Serranus Hastings supported militias in and around the Eden and Round Valleys of Northern California that committed numerous atrocities against the Native populations. Working closely with the Round Valley Indian Tribes and the Yuki people (one of seven Tribes of the Round Valley Indian Tribes, the law school decided to create an Indigenous Law Center, fellowships for student to provide legal
assistance to Tribal members, a commemorative space on campus dedicated to the
history and memory of Yuki Tribal members who suffered atrocities at the hand of Serranus Hastings, and other collaborations between the law school and the communities.
Importantly, UC Law SF worked closely with the state legislature and its Board of Directors to change its name, despite litigation waged in opposition by Hastings’ descendants. On December 30, a San Francisco Superior Court denied a motion to enjoin the name change, which comes into effect January 1, 2023, at the commencement of a new year. The Aoki Center values that its sister law school, one of five that are part of the University of California public university system, engaged in a serious process of moral reckoning that engaged the affected communities. UC Law SF’s actions cannot erase the evil and harm waged against the Yuki people, but it can forge a new path towards racial reconciliation and healing. We applaud UC SF for investigating truth and choosing to distance itself from Hastings’ dark past. Institutions, especially those dedicated to forging new lawyers, cannot simply ignore legacies of oppression.
UC Law SF’s actions are not merely symbolic gestures. They are imperatives that message to everyone, especially its alumni and current and future law students, that it will not continue to honor a deeply flawed man, no matter his contributions to the law school, who hurt a lot of people based on racial animus. We wish UC Law SF and its community great
success in its endeavors to forge a new generation of social justice lawyers who can be
proud to be associated with a law school that took good steps to bend toward justice.
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Aoki Center Legal Fellow FY 23-24 - Applications Open until January 29, 2023!
The Aoki Center Legal Fellowship permits one Fellow to spend one year in residence working with the Aoki Center. The Aoki Center for Race and Nation Studies serves as a focus for critical race and nation studies scholarship, events and initiatives within the law school community; (2) to promote linkages with critical scholarship on issues involving race, immigration, and/or nation scholarship underway elsewhere at the Davis campus, throughout the University, and in the academic community generally; and (3) to advance appropriate critical race theory law and policy initiatives in Sacramento, Washington, D.C. and elsewhere.
Under direction of the co-directors of the Aoki Center and its faculty affiliates, the Aoki Legal Fellow will advance Aoki Center projects and initiatives such as conduct research and writing and help plan and execute events. Assist with the development of a strategic planning process for the Aoki Center and work with the Development Office to raise additional funding for the Center. Assist with expanding praxis opportunities for faculty, staff, and students. Work with the student advisory committee to review Center programming for students. Assist with supporting the Public Interest Committee in expanding opportunities for students interested in public interest careers. Collaborate with the DEI Fellow to promote inclusive excellence in the co-curricular spaces at the law school. For more information on the application, visit here!
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Maggio Summer Fellowship - applications open until February 10, 2023!
The application for the 2023 Maggio Immigrants’ Rights Summer Fellowship Program is now accepting applications. Michael Maggio was an extraordinary immigration attorney with a passion for social justice. As an attorney, he took up the defense of asylum-seeking Central Americans threatened with deportation and worked on the landmark Filartiga v. Pena case in 1980. While he sadly lost his battle with cancer in 2008, his passion for helping the most vulnerable continues through this annual Fellowship, strengthening law students’ long-term commitment to promoting justice and equality for vulnerable immigrant groups.
Organized and funded by AILA, the National Immigration Project, and the Center for Human Rights and Constitutional Law, the Fellowship is awarded to one law student each summer to work on a student-initiated project. For consideration, each student must submit a project proposal with an organization willing to host the student for 10 weeks and provide a $1,500 stipend. The $1,500 amount may be paid by the host organization or may be provided by the law student through other means, e.g., law school public interest funding, independent fundraising, etc. The Maggio Immigrants' Rights Fellowship will provide an additional $2,500 stipend for a total award of $4,000. More details may be found on the Maggio Fellowship website. On top of this stipend, the Maggio Fellowship also offers complimentary registration to national immigration conferences.
For more information on the application and to learn more about the impressive work of past fellows, visit http://maggiofellowship.org. The deadline is February 10, 2023. If you have any questions, please contact me at elynum@aila.org. Thank you!
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Pro Bono Opportunity for Law School Students
USCRI's PALS (Pro Bono Afghan Legal Services) is seeking pro bono attorneys and law students to assist with Special Immigrant Visas, Asylum, or Adjustment of Status. We are very interested in collaborating with your Immigration Clinic to take on some of these cases. I recognize how big the need is for all types of immigration assistance and how busy you and your students are, and I appreciate you taking the time to consider this work with us. There are three main ways that PALS can connect with your law students:
Direct case referrals to one of your law school’s clinical programs.
Unpaid Internships Summer Semester.
Intake volunteers who can dedicate 5-6 hours a month for pro bono client intakes, able to be remote and flexible scheduling.
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Join Legal Services of Northern California (LSNC) for the 20th annual Valentine Run/Walk, Race for Justice on Saturday, February 11, 2023! If you register at www.valentine.run before Dec. 31, 2022, you will get the early bird rate. Please note that there is even a virtual run/walk option. Or you could donate to Legal Services of Northern California at any time. Here is a video about the Valentine Run/Walk.
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