Public Interest Mobilization and Access to Justice Movements in the New Democratic State
Public Interest Mobilization and Access to Justice Movements in the New Democratic State
2017 WISCONSIN LAW REVIEW SYMPOSIUM
October 27, 2017
8:30-9:00Continental Breakfast
9:00-9:15Welcome and Opening Remarks
Michael Annerino & Ena Kovacevic
Wisconsin Law Review Symposium Editors
Tonya Brito
Program Chair
University of Wisconsin Law School
Dean Margaret Raymond
Fred W. & Vi Miller Dean and Professor of Law
University of Wisconsin Law School
9:15-10:45Panel 1: Nationwide Lawyer Mobilization for Refugee and
Immigrant Justice
Moderator: Alexandra Huneeus
University of Wisconsin Law School
“Comprehensive Immigration Severity and the Challenges and Opportunities for Immigrants’ Rights Mobilization”
Anil Kalhan
Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law
“Fighting the Muslim Ban at Airports, in the Courts, and in the Streets” Zahra Billoo
Council on American Islamic Relations, San Francisco Bay Area
Chapter
“Sanctuary Networks”
Pratheepan (Deep) Gulasekaram
Santa Clara University School of Law
“Toward Universal Deportation Defense: An Optimistic View”
Michael Kagan
UNLV William S. Boyd School of Law
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-12:30Panel 2: Public Interest Law Organizations, Social Movements,
and the Democratic State
Moderator: Myra Marx Ferree
Sociology Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Democracy, Civil Society, and Public Interest Law”
Catherine Albiston
University of California, Berkeley Law School
“Lawyers and Social Movements: Reimagining the Progressive Canon”
Scott Cummings
UCLA School of Law
“Cooperating Counsel? Private and Public Interest Lawyering for
Marriage Equality”
Gwendolyn Leachman
University of Wisconsin Law School
“Simplicity as Justice”
Kathryn Sabbeth
University of North Carolina School of Law
12:30-12:45Break
12:45-2:15Lunch Roundtable
Moderator: Marsha Mansfield
University of Wisconsin Law School
Title tbc
Jennifer Tsai
Rule of Law Initiative, American Bar Association
“Evidence-based Lawyer Regulation”
Elizabeth Chambliss
University of South Carolina School of Law & NMRC Center on
Professionalism
“Civil Right to Counsel: A Movement Built For, and Responsive To,
Turbulent Political Times”
John Pollock
National Coalition for a Civil Right to Counsel
Title tbc
David Udell
National Center for Access to Justice, Fordham Law School
2:15-2:30Break
2:30-4:00Panel 3: Empirical Study of Access to Justice
Moderator: Susannah Tahk
University of Wisconsin Law School
“Producing Justice in Moral Complexity”
Tonya Brito
University of Wisconsin Law School
“Studying the ‘New’ Civil Judges”
Anna Carpenter
University of Tulsa College of Law &
Alyx Mark
Department of Political Science, North Central College
(Co-authors: Colleen Shanahan, Temple University
Beasley School of Law & Justice Lab at the Sheller Center for Social
Justice & Jessica Steinberg, George Washington University Law
School)
“Access to What?”
Rebecca Sandefur
University of Illinois College of Law
“The Keys to the Kingdom: Judges and Pre-Hearing Procedure”
Colleen Shanahan
Temple University Beasley School of Law