Symposia
Law & Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice hosts annual or biennial symposia that explore current issues of law and inequality. Past symposia have explored assisted reproduction, law in the modern American family, the rights of children, issues facing LGBTQ athletes, critical race theory, and civil rights.
Past Symposia
2018 Symposium: Immigration Law Forum: Civil Rights Behind Bars
University of Minnesota Law School, November 9 & 10, 2017Law & Inequality, in conjunction with The James H. Binger Center for New Americans, co-presented Immigration Law Forum: Civil Rights Behind Bars, a symposium addressing troubling trends in immigration enforcement and detention, the use of federal court litigation to protect immigrants, and lessons from the civil rights era. The Forum brought together leading litigators and educators from across the country who are involved in high-profile cases at all levels of the immigration adjudication system, including speakers Lee Gelernt, Deputy Director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project, and Professor Fatma Marouf, the Director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic at Texas A&M University School of Law.