Yale Bulletin and Calendar

February 9, 2001

Volume 29, Number 18

Event to explore novel approaches to legal issues

Innovative approaches to legal and social issues ranging from gay rights to racial profiling, the death penalty, the child welfare system and reproductive rights will be explored in this year's Rebellious Lawyering Conference, which will take place Friday-Sunday, Feb. 16-18.

The annual event, run by students at the Law School, will bring together legal practitioners, community activists and students from around the country to discuss novel and progressive approaches to law and social change. The conference will highlight non-traditional methods of legal and quasi-legal representation, such as grassroots organizing, as well as alternative approaches to impact litigation, direct services and criminal defense. All events take place at the Law School, 127 Wall St.

The opening lecture for the conference will be presented by Chai Feldblum, an associate professor of law at Georgetown University School of Law and principal author of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Feldblum will discuss "Gay Rights in the New Millennium" on Friday evening at 6 p.m. in Rm. 127.

Tom Saenz, national senior counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, will deliver the conference's keynote address at 5:30 p.m. on Saturday in Levinson Auditorium.

The conference will feature separate sessions throughout the weekend on the following topics: "Animal Rights and Wrongs: Animal Advocacy Inside and Outside the System," "Racial Profiling," "Transgendering the Law," "Inmates, Outsiders and Illegals: Fighting for the Rights of Invisible Workers," "Race and Class in the Child Welfare System," "Halting the Machinery of Death: The Future of Anti-Death Penalty Activism," "Human Rights on the U.S./
Mexico Border," "Reproductive Rights," "Resisting Suburban Sprawl," "The Fight for Educational Equity" and "America's Drug Wars: The New Jim Crow at Home and Military Intervention Abroad."

In addition, several workshops will be offered to explore the topics "Mental Health Litigation in the Context of Capital Case Litigation," "Corporate Law Against Corporations," "Funding Public Interest Law" and "Organizing and the Law."

Conference participants include Carol J. Adams, author of "The Sexual Politics of Meat"; the Reverend Reginald Jackson, executive director of the Black Ministers' Council of New Jersey; Shannon Minter of the National Center for Lesbian Rights; Greg Schell of the Migrant Farmworker Justice Project; Priscilla Alexander of the National Task Force on Prostitution; William Bell, deputy commissioner of the Administration for Children's Services in New York City; Aviva Futorian of the Illinois Coalition Against the Death Penalty; Anne Spillane of the Environmental Law and Policy Center; attorney Denny LeBoeuf; Michael Rebel of the Campaign for Fiscal Equity; and Graham Boyd of the American Civil Liberties Union's Drug Policy Litigation Project, among others.

The event also includes lunches with panelists, a potluck dinner and a "Rebellious People's Party." For general information or a schedule of conference events, visit the Rebellious Lawyering Conference website at www.reblaw.org.

Sponsors of the conference are the Black Law Students Association, Latino Law Students, Pacific Asian Native American Law Students, the Schell Center for Human Rights, South Asian Law Students, the Yale Environmental Law Association, the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, the Yale Law School Career Development Office, the Yale Law and Technology Society and Yale Law Women.

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