How Legal Decisions Affect Intersectionality:
Anti-capitalist and Decolonial Perspectives
Each year, the Diversity and Social Justice Forum at Chapman University's Dale E. Fowler School of Law hosts a symposium or panel discussion on issues of diversity and social justice, typically paired with the release of the DSJ Forum journal. The theme of this year’s symposium and publication is, “How Legal Decisions Affect Intersectionality: Anti-capitalist and Decolonial Perspectives.”
In 1989, civil rights activist and law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw coined the term "intersectionality" in a paper for the University of Chicago Legal Forum, arguing that "because the intersectional experience is greater than the sum of racism and sexism, any analysis that does not take intersectionality into account cannot sufficiently address the particular manner in which Black women are subordinated." Her scholarship on the concept and the literature following it seeks to illustrate that intersectionality is at the root of how people identify, how they live, and who they are. The 2024 Diversity and Social Justice Forum Panel Discussion will explore these ideas and consider how Crenshaw's 1989 concept has anchored and become foundational for "Diversity and Social Justice.”
February 1, 2024
5:15 p.m. - 7:45 p.m. PT
Room 237AB
Kennedy Hall
Check-in
5:15 p.m.
Buffet Dinner
5:30 p.m. - 6:15 p.m.
Panel Discussion
How Legal Decisions Affect Intersectionality: Anti-Capitalist and Decolonial Perspectives
6:15 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
PANELISTS
Professor Andrea Freeman,
Professor of Law, Southwestern Law School, 2020-2021 Fulbright King's College London Research Scholar and author of Ruin Their Crops on the Ground (Henry Holt forthcoming 2024) and Skimmed: Breastfeeding, Race and Injustice (Stanford University Press 2019).
Professor Lauren van Schilfgaarde,
Assistant Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law, Co-chair for the Native American Concerns Committee of the American Bar Association, Commissioner for the Lawyers Network Commission of the Center for Reproductive Rights, and Board Member of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Child Well-being Program and the Wishtoyo Chumash Foundation.
Professor Kaimipono Wenger,
Adjunct Associate Professor of Law/ Senior Staff Attorney, Tenant Defense Project, Inner City Law Center at Southwestern Law School.
Moderator: Assistant Professor Carrie Rosenbaum
Professor of Law at Chapman University Fowler School of Law.
Panel Concludes
7:45 p.m.