AALS Discussion Group

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Session Type: AALS Discussion Groups

Session Capacity: N/A

Location: Hilton San Francisco Union Square

Room: Plaza A

Floor: Lobby Level

Critical Race Theory’s (CRT) explanatory power is in how race and the law have been deployed to produce and maintain systemic racism in America. Its ban is an alarming trend within our democracy. It is essential to engage with CRT to demand a strategic accounting of the possibilities and limitations of the law as well as courageous scholarship and pedagogies inspiring action. Discussants will talk about ways to support each other in teaching CRT, the history of CRT, the implications for our democracy, CUNY’s mandatory 1L CRT course and other curricula innovations and its impact on the practice of law.