‘Pluralizing’ Legal Professional Identity: Democracy, Equity, Justice, and the Legal Curriculum

This Fall, the William S. Richardson School of Law is proud to share a national webinar series organized by Professor Eduardo R.C. Capulong in collaboration with the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). The series will bring together leading scholars to explore how law schools shape professional identity and the rule of law at a critical moment for democracy, equity, and justice.

With law, lawyers, and legal institutions at the forefront of protecting democracy and the rule of law, and with the most diverse and some of the largest cohorts of students entering law schools, law teachers have the unique opportunity and responsibility to explore and study the values and guiding principles animating our profession and society more broadly. In this series of workshops this Fall, law teachers and scholars from across the country will discuss legal professional identity in various contexts and the implications of how we define and teach it in the current context.

All sessions are free and open to the public. Advance registration is required.

✓ September 10th (Completed): Introductory Workshop: Democracy, Professional Identity, and the Legal Curriculum | Association of American Law Schools 

• Kellye Y. Testy, American Association of Law Schools
• Eduardo R.C. Capulong, University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law
• Kendall L. Kerew, Georgia State College of Law
• Andrew King-Ries, University of Montana Alexander Blewett III School of Law
• Monte Mills, University of Washington School of Law

✓ October 1st (Completed): Protecting and Defending is Insufficient: Envisioning a More Equitable Rule of Law | Association of American Law Schools 

• Andrew King-Ries, University of Montana Alexander Blewett III School of Law
• Paul Anthony Gowder, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law 
• Amy Kapczynski, Yale Law School 
• Jocelyn Simonson, Brooklyn Law School
• Zamir Ben-Dan, Temple University School of Law 

October 22nd: The Rule of Law, Lawyers, and Indigenous Rights | Association of American Law Schools 

• Monte Mills, University of Washington School of Law
• Elizabeth Reese, Stanford Law School
• Nazune Menka, Seattle University School of Law
• Heather Whiteman Runs Him, University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law

November 12th: Professional Identity in an Era of Mass Deportation | Association of American Law Schools 

• Eduardo R.C. Capulong, University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law 
• Esther Yoo, University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law
• Annie Lai, University of California Irvine School of Law
• Jessica Rofé, Rutgers Law School

December 3rd: The Role of Public Citizen and the Rule of Law | Association of American Law Schools 

• Kendall L. Kerew, Georgia State College of Law
• Russell B. Pearce, Fordham University School of Law
• Sameer Ashar, University of California Irvine School of Law
• Etienne C. Toussaint, University of South Carolina Joseph F. Rice School of Law
• Mary-Beth Moylan, University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law