I'm delighted to report on the University of Pittsburgh Law Review's sympoisum in honor of Derrick Bell, which will be held on March 27 and 28. There will be a roundtable discussion on Thursday afternoon with Kristina Campbell, University of D.C. David A Clarke School of Law, Timothy Golden, West Chester University (Philosophy), Llezlie Green Coleman, American University George Washington College of Law, Tanya Asim Cooper & Therese Beaudreault, University of Alabama School of Law, Patience Crowder, University of Denver Sturum College of Law, Justin Hansford, St. Louis University School of Law, Marissa Jackson, Law Clerk to Hon. Damon J. Keith U.S. Court of Appeals (6th Circuit), Melinda Molina, Capital University Law School, William Rhee, West Virginia University College of Law, Josephine Ross, Howard University School of Law, Rakhi Ruparelia, University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, and Andre Smith, Widener Law. Ian Haney Lopez of Berkeley Law will give the opening night keynote address.
And on Friday the first panel has papers by Andrea Freeman, University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law, Derrick Bell and Food Oppression; Montré Carodine, University of Alabama School of Law, Race as Character Evidence; SpearIt,Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Economic Interest Convergence in Downsizing Imprisonment. The second panel has papers by Paul Finkleman, Albany Law School, Slave Law was American Law: Slavery Stories and the Scholarship of Derrick Bell; Stacey Gahagan and me, Reading Professor Obama: Race and the American Constitutional Tradition (available here); Juan Perea, Loyola Chicago School of Law, Doctrines of Delusion: Bakke, Fisher and the Case for a New Affirmative Action. Richard Delgado of the University of Alabama will then deliver the luncheon keynote, Law's Violence: Derrick Bell's Next Article. And the third panel will have papers by Pat Chew, Pitt Law, Challenging Authority; George Taylor, Pitt Law, The Object of Diversity; Jean Stefancic, University of Alabama School of Law, Discerning Critical Moments: Lessons from the Life of Derrick Bell. The closing keynote address will be by Kimberlé Crenshaw, Devon Carbado, and Cheryl Harris all of UCLA.
Here is a flyer about the symposium. And here is the final program.
I'm looking forward to a great discussion. (And thanks to Professor Jasmine Rose of Pitt Law for putting together such a great program.)
Update: here is a podcast of my talk at Pitt's Bell Symposium.