This symposium centers on racial constructions and their effects as social, cultural, and legal phenomena.  They are transnational, if not global. This workshop will address the construction of race in international law (both historically and contemporaneously) and thus its ongoing legacy.  We combine this with a look forward at the role that international law (has and) could play as a normative resource to address and redress institutionalized racial discrimination within countries.

Speakers Include:

Tendayi Achiume, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
Jose Alvarez, Herbert and Rose Rubin Professor of International Law, NYU School of Law
Thiago de Souza Amparo, Professor, FGV Direito SP
James Anaya, University Distinguished Professor and Nicholas Doman Professor of International Law, University of Colorado Law School
Penelope Andrews, Professor of Law, New York Law School
Antony Anghie, Professor, The University of Utah College of Law
Asli Bali, Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law
James Cavallaro, Co-Founder and Executive Director, University Network for Human Rights
James Gathii, Wing-Tat Lee Chair in International Law and Professor of Law, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Hirokazu Miyazaki, Kay Davis Professor, Professor of Anthropology, Northwestern University Weinberg College of Arts & Sciences
KS Park, Professor of Law, Korea University School of Law
Catherine Powell, Professor of Law, Fordham University School of Law
Sergio Puig, Professor of Law, The University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law
Annelise Riles, Executive Director of the Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Studies and Professor of Law, Northwestern Pritzerk School of Law
Silvia Serrano Guzmán, Associate Director of the Healthy Families Initiative at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Georgetown Law
Matiangai Sirleaf, Nathan Patz Professor of Law, University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
Anna Spain Bradley, Professor of Law and Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, UCLA School of Law
Dire Tladi, Professor of International Law, University of Pretoria