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1st Harvard Law School Critical Race Theory Conference<\/strong><\/a>
\n\u201cMovement Lawyering: Lessons From and For Critical Race Theory\u201d<\/strong>
\nCivil Rights and Civil Liberties Review & Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

CALL FOR CONTENT<\/strong>
\nAccepting between February 11 – March 25, 2019<\/strong>
\nPost-conference reflections accepted April 13 – April 19, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

Derrick Bell founded Critical Race Theory (\u201cCRT\u201d) on the principle that it would be used to guide lawyers, scholars, activists, and communities to work together to build social movements to dismantle systems of oppression. In 1981 before Bell\u2019s departure from HLS, a group of Harvard Law students, led by Kimberl\u00e9 Crenshaw and Mari Matsuda, organized an \u201cAlternative Course\u201d on race and law at Harvard Law School to boycott a mini-course on race offered by HLS administration as a failed attempt to appease students demanding a discussion of race and law. The Alternative Course was in many ways the first institutionalized expression of CRT and is one of the origin stories of CRT. Since then, scholars, lawyers, and activists have utilized CRT principles to conceptualize how systems of oppression are designed to marginalize peoples at the intersection of race and their other identities, including gender, sexual orientation, immigration status, and class. Today, lawyers still grapple with how to dismantle these systems of subornation in partnership with communities, as well as the relevance of CRT in guiding that work. 37 years later, Harvard Law students are carrying forward the critical tradition sparked by the 1981 student organizers by organizing the first annual CRT Conference at HLS. The conference seeks to re-ignite this conversation by exploring how CRT today contributes to the power building efforts of modern social movements led by communities and lawyers working to dismantle systems of subordination at the intersection of race and other marginalized identities.<\/p>\n

Today, lawyers still grapple with how to dismantle these systems of subornation in partnership with communities, as well as the relevance of CRT in guiding that work. 37 years later, Harvard Law students are carrying forward the critical tradition sparked by the 1981 student organizers by organizing the first annual CRT Conference at HLS. The conference seeks to re-ignite this conversation by exploring how CRT today contributes to the power building efforts of modern social movements led by communities and lawyers working to dismantle systems of subordination at the intersection of race and other marginalized identities.<\/p>\n

Conference sessions include (1) CRT: Origins, Developments, and Futures; (2) The Alternative Course: Reclaiming Student Organizing, Power, and Action; (3) Models of Effective Movement Lawyering for Racial Liberation; (4) An Abolitionist #MeToo Movement: Approaches to Anti-Carceral Anti-Violence Advocacy; (5) Scaling Movement Lawyering with(out) Critical Race Theory; and, (6) Various workshops with scholars, activists, and movement lawyers.<\/p>\n

Written Submission Requirements<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n