Multiracials and Civil Rights: Mixed Race Stories of Discrimination
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Center on Race, Law & Justice Book Talk Multiracials and Civil Rights: Mixed Race Stories of Discrimination by Tanya Katerí Hernández Discussion of Civil Rights and Race Equality in a Growing Multiracial World Wednesday, September 26, 2018 Fordham Law School Hill Faculty Conference Room (7-119) 4- 5:30 p.m. CLE Materials Table of Contents 1. Speaker Biographies (view in document) 2. CLE Materials Session A: Discussion of Civil Rights and Race Equality in a Growing Multiracial World Tanya Keterí Hernández. An Excerpt from MULTIRACIALS AND CIVIL RIGHTS: Mixed- Race Stories of Discrimination (View in document) Juan Cartagena West Indies Law School, in Trinidad. She President and General Counsel of Latino has previously served as a Law and Public Justice Policy Affairs Fellow at Princeton University, a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for One of the nation’s leading voices on Research on Women at Rutgers University; equality and nondiscrimination, a Non-resident Faculty Fellow at the Fred T. Constitutional and Civil Rights Attorney Korematsu Center for Law and Equality, Juan Cartagena inspires change to systems and as an Independent Scholar in that marginalize communities of color. As a Residence at the Schomburg Center for public speaker, El Diario columnist, and Research in Black Culture. Professor Rutgers University lecturer, Juan focuses Hernández is a Fellow of the American Bar extensively on Puerto Rican and Latino Foundation, the American Law Institute, and rights issues, including the community the Academia Puertorriqueña de impacts of mass incarceration. Jurisprudencia y Legislación. Hispanic Business Magazine selected her as one of Juan is a graduate of Dartmouth College the 100 Most Influential Hispanics of 2007. and Columbia University School of Law and Professor Hernández serves on the editorial is the recipient of multiple recognitions, boards of the Revista Brasileira de Direito e including Dartmouth College’s Martin Luther Justiça/Brazilian Journal of Law and Justice, King, Jr. Social Justice Award, and the U.S. and the Latino Studies Journal published by Hispanic Leadership Institute’s Cesar Palgrave-Macmillian Press. Chavez Community Service Award. Juan Professor Hernández’s scholarly interest is lives in and represents the State of New in the study of comparative race relations Jersey, having previously served as a and anti-discrimination law, and her work in Municipal Court Judge in Hoboken and as that area has been published in numerous General Counsel to the Hispanic Bar university law reviews like Cornell, Harvard, Association of New Jersey. N.Y.U., U.C. Berkeley, Yale and in news outlets like the New York Times, among other publications including her book Racial Subordination in Latin America: The Role of Tanya Katerí Hernández the State, Customary Law and the New Civil Fordham Law Archibald R. Murray Rights Response (including Spanish and Professor of Law Portuguese translation editions). Her most recent publication is the book "Multiracials Tanya Katerí Hernández, is the Archibald R. and Civil Rights: Mixed-Race Stories of Murray Professor of Law at Fordham Discrimination. University School of Law, where she teaches Anti-Discrimination Law, Comparative Employment Discrimination, Critical Race Theory, The Science of Robin A. Lenhardt (moderator) Implicit Bias and the Law: New Pathways to Professor of Law and Faculty Director of Social Justice, and Trusts & Wills. She Center on Race, Law and Justice at received her A.B. from Brown University, Fordham Law School and her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she served as Note Topics Editor of the Robin A. Lenhardt is a Professor of Law and Yale Law Journal. Faculty Director of the recently launched Professor Hernández, is an internationally Center on Race, Law and Justice at recognized comparative race law expert and Fordham Law School. Professor Lenhardt Fulbright Scholar who has visited at the specializes in matters pertaining to race, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La family, and citizenship. In addition to Défense, in Paris and the University of the Fordham, she has held teaching positions at Columbia Law School, the Georgetown University Law Center, and the University of For the decade prior to his appointment, Chicago Law School. Before entering legal Judge Lohier was an Assistant United academia, Professor Lenhardt held a States Attorney in the Southern District of number of positions in the private and non- New York, where he served as Senior profit sectors. A law clerk to U.S. Supreme Counsel to the United States Attorney, Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer and Judge Deputy Chief and Chief of the Securities Hugh Bownes of the U.S. Court of Appeals and Commodities Fraud Task Force, and for the First Circuit, Professor Lenhardt was Deputy Chief and Chief of the Narcotics formerly a Counsel in the Washington, D.C. Unit. As the Deputy Chief and Chief of the office of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering, where Securities and Commodities Fraud Task she was a member of the litigation team that Force, Judge Lohier was responsible for defended the University of Michigan in overseeing the Bernard Madoff the Grutter v. Bollinger and Gratz v. prosecutions, the investigation and Bollinger affirmative action lawsuits. prosecution of Marc Dreier, the Galleon and Professor Lenhardt received a Skadden other hedge fund-related insider trading Foundation Fellowship to work as a staff cases, as well as several other high-profile attorney for the National Lawyers’ fraud cases. Prior to his service as an Committee for Civil Rights and was Assistant United States Attorney, from 1997 employed as aas an attorney advisor in the to 2000, Judge Lohier served as a Senior U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Legal Trial Attorney with the Civil Rights Division Counsel. She later returned to DOJ to of the United States Department of Justice, review civil rights issues as part of President where he spearheaded employment Barack Obama’s transition team. Professor discrimination-related litigation and worked Lenhardt’s scholarship has appeared in on other civil rights matters of importance to numerous books and journals, including the the federal government. California Law Review, the New York University Law Review, and the UCLA Law From 1991 to 1992 and from 1993 to 1997, Review. Professor Lenhardt is currently co- Judge Lohier was associated with the law editor of a book entitled Critical Race firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton in Judgements: U.S. Opinions on Race and New York. In 1992 and 1993 Judge Lohier Law that will be published by Cambridge served as a law clerk for the Honorable University Press. She holds an A.B. degree Robert P. Patterson, Jr. of the United States in English from Brown University; a JD from District Court for the Southern District of Harvard Law School; an MPA from Harvard New York. University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government; and an LLM from the Judge Lohier graduated from Harvard Georgetown University Law Center. College in 1988. He then earned his J.D. in 1991 from New York University School of Law, where he received a Vanderbilt Judge Raymond Lohier Medal. United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Prior to his appointment, Judge Lohier was a member of the Board of Directors of the Judge Lohier is a judge on the United Black, Latino, and Asian Pacific American States Court of Appeals for the Second Law Alumni Association and of the Board of Circuit. He was nominated by President Directors of the New York University School Barack Obama in March 2010 and of Law Alumni Association. He also served unanimously confirmed by the United States as First Vice-Chairperson of Brooklyn Senate in December 2010. Community Board 6. Judge Lohier is currently a member of the American Law Ann Morning Institute, the Federal Bar Council Inns of Associate Professor of Sociology, New Court, and the New York University School York University of Law Board of Trustees, as well as an adjunct professor of law at New York Ann Morning is an Associate Professor of University School of Law. He is a recipient Sociology at New York University and a of the New York University Alumni faculty affiliate of NYU Abu Dhabi. Trained Association's Eugene J. Keogh Award for in economics, political science, and Distinguished Public Service. international affairs as well as sociology, her research interests include race, demography, and the sociology of science, Cara McClellan especially as they pertain to census Skadden Fellow, NAACP Legal Defense classification worldwide and to individuals’ and Educational Fund, Inc. concepts of difference. She is a member of the U.S. Census Bureau’s National Advisory Cara McClellan joins the NAACP Legal Committee on Racial, Ethnic and Other Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF) Populations and has consulted on racial as a Skadden Fellow. Prior to joining LDF, statistics for the European Commission and she was a law clerk to the Honorable the United Nations. She is currently working Gregory M. Sleet of the United States with Marcello Maneri (U. Milan-Bicocca) on District Court for the District of Delaware a book tentatively entitled "An Ugly Word: and to the Honorable Andre M. Davis of the 'Race' and Descent in Italy and the United United States Court of Appeals for the States." Fourth Circuit. Cara graduated with honors from Yale College, received an M.S.Ed. from Penn Graduate School of Education and a J.D. from Yale Law School. During law school, Cara participated in clinics where she represented youth in neglect and abuse proceedings and in expulsion proceedings. She served as a Comments Editor of the Yale Law & Policy Review. Cara spent her law school summers as an intern at LDF, an intern at the United States Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division—Educational Opportunities Section, and as a summer associate at Wilmer Hale.