Sessions Information

  • January 6, 2026
    4:10 PM - 5:25 PM
    Session Type: Section Programs
    Session Capacity: N/A
    Location: Hilton New Orleans Riverside
    Room: Canal
    Floor: Third Floor

Sessions Description

  • This session explores how speculative fiction functions as a site of legal imagination, offering alternative frameworks for justice, governance, and community. Drawing from works such as Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower and Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther, panelists consider how speculative storytelling critiques existing systems while envisioning transformative legal possibilities. By bridging law, literature, and critical theory, the discussion examines how Afrofuturism, Indigenous futurism, and related traditions reimagine sovereignty, accountability, and social order, illuminating the radical potential of literature to shape legal consciousness and inspire new futures of equity and collective flourishing.

Session Speakers
Emory University School of Law
Speaker

Southern University Law Center
Speaker

Fordham University School of Law
Speaker

The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law
Speaker

University of South Carolina Joseph F. Rice School of Law
Moderator

Session Fees
  • Minority Groups: Radical Legal Imaginaries: Law, Literature, and Speculative Futures: $0.00