Southern California
Review of Law and Social Justice
The Southern California Review of Social Justice (RLSJ) and Saks Institute for Mental Health Law, Policy, and Ethics proudly invite you to our Symposium:
Putting Patients at the Center of Restraints:
A Discussion of the Legal and Ethical Implications of
Mechanical Restriants in Psychiatric Care
Featuring
Professor Elyn Saks
Orrin B. Evans Professor of Law, Psychology, and Psychiatry and the Behavioral Sciences
Dr. Keris Jan Myrick
Director, Project Return Peer Support Network
Yumi Ahn
Behavioral Intervention Programs as an Alternative to Mechanical Restraints:
Cost-Benefit Analysis and Policy Recommendations
Jaqueline Klein
A Theory of Punishment: The Use of Mechanical Restraints in Psychiatric Care
Nicholas Scurich
Constraints of Restraints: A signal Detection Analysis of the
Use of Mechanical Restraints on Adult Psychiatric Patients
Zoe Sussman
Mechanical Restraints: Is This Your Idea of Therapy?
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
4:00pm to 6:30pm
USC Law School, 4th Floor Faculty lounge
With Reception to Follow
Please RSVP by emailing RLSJ@lawmail.usc.edu.
Proposition 8 and Marriage Equality
The Southern California Review of Social Justice (RLSJ) proudly invites you to our Symposium:
Proposition 8 & Marriage Equality
Featuring Keynote Speaker
Shannon Minter
Legal Director, National Center for Lesbian Rights
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
4:00pm to 6:30pm
USC Law School, Room 3
With Reception to Follow in the Law Cafe
Panel I: A Retrospective on Proposition 8
Panel II: The Future of Marriage Equality
Keynote Speaker:
Shannon Price Minter, Legal Director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights
Shannon Price Minter is the Legal Director of the National Center for Lesbian Rights (NCLR), one of the nation's leading advocacy organizations for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. Shannon was lead counsel for same-sex couples in the landmark California marriage equality case which held that same-sex couples have the fundamental right to marry and that laws that discriminate based on sexual orientation are inherently discriminatory and subject to the highest level of constitutional scrutiny. Shannon was also NCLR's lead attorney on Sharon Smith's groundbreaking wrongful death suit and has litigated many other impact cases in California and across the country. In 2009, Shannon was named California Lawyer of the Year by California Lawyer.
Panelists:
Professor David B. Cruz, USC Law School
David Cruz is a constitutional law expert focusing on civil rights and equality issues, including equal marriage rights for same-sex couples. He specializes in discrimination law and the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender persons. He teaches Constitutional Law I; Constitutional Law II; Federal Courts; Sexual Orientation and the Law; International/Comparative Perspectives on Sex, Gender, and Sexual Orientation; Identity Categories; and Law, Identity, and Culture. Professor Cruz graduated from the University of California, Irvine and earned his master's degree from Stanford University. He is a graduate of New York University School of Law, where he was managing editor of New York University Law Review. Professor Cruz's academic publications include "Spinning Lawrence, or Lawrence v. Texas and the Promotion of Heterosexuality" (Widener Law Review, 2005); "Mystification, Neutrality, and Same-Sex Couples in Marriage," in Mary Lyndon Shanley's Just Marriage (Oxford University Press 2004); "Making Up Women: Casinos, Cosmetics, and Title VII" (Nevada Law Journal, 2004); and "Disestablishing Sex and Gender" (California Law Review, 2002).
Professor Judith Halberstam, Director of The USC Center for Feminist Research
Judith Halberstam teaches courses in queer studies, gender theory, art, literature and film. She earned her BA with a major in English, at the University of California at Berkeley in 1985. She received her MA from the University of Minnesota in 1989, and her PhD from the same school in 1991. She is the author of Female Masculinity, The Drag King Book, Skin Shows: Gothic Horror and the Technology of Monsters and a new book from NYU Press titled In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Bodies, Subcultural Lives.
John Henning, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Love Honor Cherish
John Henning is a co-founder of Love Honor Cherish, an organization dedicated solely to the repeal of Proposition 8 in the next general election in November 2010. John is a long-time advocate for marriage equality. He co-produced and co-directed the award-winning film "Saving Marriage," which tracks the three-year fight for marriage quality in Massachusetts. "Saving Marriage" won Best Documentary at the New York Gay & Lesbian Film Festival and was released in theaters by Regent Releasing/here!TV. In 1999, long before the California Supreme Court ruled that gay couples had the right to marry, John authored and circulated a proposed constitutional amendment that would have made same-sex marriage legal in California. He is a land use attorney and has his own practice, specializing in land use and zoning issues. He attended law school at UC Berkeley.
Associate Professor Douglas NeJaime, Loyola Law School
Douglas NeJaime teaches in the areas of Ethical Lawyering and Law & Sexuality at Loyola Law School. Prior to joining the Loyola faculty in 2009, he was the Sears Law Teaching Fellow at the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law, where he taught courses on law and sexuality and legal scholarship. He graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he served as a Senior Editor on the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review and as a Teaching Fellow to Professor Lani Guinier. He received his B.A. with Honors in American Civilization from Brown University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude. His research interests include antidiscrimination law and social movement lawyering, with a focus on sexual orientation-, sex-, and religion-based movements. In 2008, he was honored with a Dukeminier Award, which recognizes the best sexual orientation and gender identity law scholarship published in the previous year.
Jennifer C. Pizer, Senior Counsel and Marriage Project Director for Lambda Legal
Jennifer Pizer is Senior Counsel and Marriage Project Director for Lambda Legal, the oldest and largest national legal organization committed to achieving full recognition of the civil rights of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people and people with HIV. Pizer long has been a leading voice for ending marriage discrimination against lesbian and gay couples. She served as co-counsel in the intensive marriage equality litigation in both Washington State and California, which led to the historic In re Marriage Cases victory in May 2008, and now is co-counsel in Strauss v. Horton, the LGBT community's challenge to Proposition 8, the November 2008 ballot measure that purported to change California's Constitution to eliminate gay and lesbian couples' fundamental right to marry. Pizer has served as an adjunct professor at USC Law School, Loyola Law School and Whittier Law School. Prior to joining Lambda Legal, she was associated with Townsend and Townsend and Crew LLP in San Francisco for five years. Before entering private practice, Pizer was legal director of the National Abortion Rights Action League and served as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Ann Aldrich of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. She is a 1987 graduate of New York University School of Law and a 1982 honors graduate of Harvard College.
Robert Bradley (Brad) Sears, Executive Director of The Williams Institute at UCLA Law
Brad Sears is the Executive Director of the Charles R. Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy, a national think-tank at UCLA School of Law dedicated to promoting legal scholarship, public policy analysis, and education programs on sexual orientation law and public policy. In addition, he teaches courses in disability law and sexual orientation law at UCLA School of Law. Sears graduated summa cum laude from Yale University and magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and served as Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. Sears has given hundreds of presentations to community groups, lawyers, medical practitioners, and advocates on HIV/AIDS and LGBT legal issues and has written a number of articles on these issues. He has also served on the board of directors or advisory boards for Being Alive Los Angeles, HALSA, USC's AIDS Education Training Center, and CorrectHelp, an organization dedicated to the needs of incarcerated persons living with HIV/AIDS.
Moderators:
Professor Rebecca Brown, USC Law School
Professor Rebecca Latham Brown is the Newton Professor of Constitutional Law and a nationally recognized constitutional law theorist. Brown's scholarship focuses on judicial review and its relationship to individual liberty under the U.S. Constitution. Brown received her B.A. from St. John's College (Annapolis, Md.) and her J.D., magna cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center, where she was an editor of the Georgetown Law Journal. She clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and U.S. Court of Appeals Chief Judge Spottswood W. Robinson III. Brown also worked in the Office of Legal Counsel in the U.S. Department of Justice and practiced with Onek, Klein & Farr in Washington, D.C. Brown recently published "How Constitutional Theory Found Its Soul: The Contributions of Ronald Dworkin," in Exploring Law's Empire (Hershovitz ed., Oxford University Press 2006), "The Logic of Majority Rule" (Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 2006) and "Confessions of a Flawed Liberal" (The Good Society 2005). She serves as co-chair of the American Constitution Society's Constitution in the 21st Century Project.
Professor Clare Pastore, USC Law School
Clare Pastore teaches courses including Civil Procedure, Professional Responsibility, Poverty Law, Administrative Law, and the Access to Justice practicum, while continuing to practice as a leading member of the California public interest community. She was selected as a Wasserstein Fellow by Harvard Law School in 2005 as part of its program recognizing outstanding public interest lawyers. Professor Pastore is also of counsel to the ACLU Foundation of Southern California, where she was Senior Counsel from 2004 to 2007. She serves as co-chair of the California State Bar Access to Justice Commission's Right to Counsel Task Force and is a member of the Amicus Briefs Committee and Professional Responsibility and Ethics Committee of the Los Angeles County Bar. From 1989 to 2004, Professor Pastore was a staff attorney at the Western Center on Law and Poverty, where she litigated many state and federal cases involving poverty law and disability rights. She received one of the nation's first Skadden Fellowships to begin her work there in 1989. Professor Pastore holds a B.A. from Colgate University and a J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was a senior editor of the Yale Law Review.
Parking Information:
Please park in Parking Structure X (PSX). PSX is located at Gate 3 off of Figueroa Street. There will be directional signs posted from PSX to the Law School. Room 3 is located on the lower level of the Law School. Parking costs $8. Directions to campus and a map can be found at: http://www.usc.edu/about/visit/upc/driving_directions/
Questions:
Please feel free to contact RLSJ at RLSJ@lawmail.usc.edu.
Diversity in the Legal Profession
On March 11, 2009, the Southern California Review of Law and Social Justice, collaborating with USC Law's Diversity Affairs Committee, hosted a symposium entitled "Diversity in the Legal Profession." The purpose of the symposium was to discuss the state of diversity in the legal profession, including topics such as the challenges to implementing diversity, ways to advance diversity, the definition of diversity among others.
The symposium had three main sessions. Each session reflected a site for analysis of the state of diversity in the legal profession: the law school admissions process, the law school classroom, and the legal professional world from graduation onward.
Stereotypes in the First-Year Curriculum
USC School of Law Professor Jody Armour discussed the role and relevance of social stereotypes in the teaching of first year law school courses.
State of Diversity in the Legal Profession
USC School of Law Professor Camille Rich moderated a panel of six professionals. The panelists were Judge Jennifer T. Lum, Dean Matthew DeGrushe (USC Law Dean of Career Services), Professor Warren Loui (Mayer Brown, Partner), Lauren Eber (Gibson Dunn, Associate), Catherine Lhamon (ACLU, Director of Racial Justice), and Joe Ybarra (Munger Tolles, Partner). The panelists were asked to draw from their own experiences in addressing the state of diversity and offer ideas regarding its advancement.
Law School Admissions & Diversity
USC School of Law Deans Chloe Reid and Dean Rob Saltzman discussed topics relating to admissions, such as the value of diversity in law schools, the use of diversity criteria in admissions, the affects of California Proposition 209 and the impact the "University of Michigan" cases have had on law school admissions processes, among other topics. A reception followed the third session.
