WHEN/WHERE: Tuesdays, noon to 1:30, brown bag, at LAS-ELC, 180 Montgomery St., 6th Floor, San Francisco (except July 26).
MCLE CREDIT: LAS-ELC is a California approved MCLE provider. Each lecture is approved for 1.5 hours of credit.
The drinking water contamination crisis in Flint, Mich., is having dramatic practical and legal repercussions nationwide. Our panelists will discuss strategies for addressing harmful environmental conditions in low-income communities in California.
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Adenike Adeyeye , research and policy analyst, Earthjustice
Roger Lin , staff attorney, Communities for a Better Environment
Claudia Polsky , asst. clinical professor and director, Environmental Law Clinic, Berkeley Law
Madeline Stano , staff attorney, Center for Race, Poverty and the Environment
The program will open with a screening of public defender and filmmaker Jeff Adachi’s new short, “America Needs a Racial Facial,” on the history of racial oppression, discrimination, and ignorance. Adachi and attorney Steve Phillips, author of the bestselling “Brown is the
New White,” will discuss U.S. politics, policy, and the goal of equality.
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Jeff Adachi , public defender, City and County of San Francisco
Steve Phillips , senior fellow, Center for American Progress Action Fund
Panelists from the federal Office for Civil Rights, San
Francisco Unified School District, and a Stanford student group will discuss how we and our institutions are responding to rising reports of assault and harassment on campuses nationwide — and what should change.
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Ava DeAlmeida-Law , investigator and trainer, U.S.
Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights
Tessa Ormenyi , survivor advocate and Title IX activist at
Stanford University
Keasara Williams , director of equity and Title IX compliance, San Francisco Unified School District
The increasing number of people fleeing violence and persecution in the Middle East must choose between two risky options if they’re headed to the
U.S.: a treacherous journey to seek asylum or an arduous legal process toward refugee status. Our panelists will explore U.S. immigration policy and the barriers refugees and asylum-seekers face here.
Q Lina Baroudi , immigration attorney, Arab
Resource and Organizing Center
Q Jessica Morreale Therkelsen , attorney and global policy director, Asylum Access
The U.S. Supreme Court resolutely upheld the doctrine of “one person, one vote” in redistricting in March ( Evenwel v. Abbott ). But fundamental questions about the American electoral process will play out during the Republican and
Democratic conventions later this month.
Our speaker has served on the Presidential
Commission on Election Administration and as a court-appointed expert or special master in four major districting cases.
Q Nathaniel Persily , James B. McClatchy
Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
“My Own Words” — a collection of
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader
Ginsburg’s speeches and essays due out in 2017 — is her first book since she was sworn in 23 years ago. Join us for a preview with her co-author, a national authority on gender law and a co-founder of Equal Rights
Advocates.
Q Wendy Webster Williams , professor emerita, Georgetown Law
Even after the death of Antonin Scalia upended the politics surrounding the Supreme Court, the eight remaining justices continued tackling the most important legal topics of the day, from affirmative action and voting rights to abortion.
Constitutional law scholar Erwin Chemerinsky will review the term and look ahead.
Q Erwin Chemerinsky , founding dean and Raymond Pryke
Professor of First Amendment Law, UC Irvine School of Law
Space is limited; RSVP is required by July 14 to brownbaglectures@las-elc.org. Choose one event :
Noon : Morrison and Foerster, 425 Market St, San Francisco,
CA 94105
5:30 pm (reception, 5:00 p.m.) : Coblentz, Patch, Duffy &
Bass, 1 Montgomery St., Suite 3000, San Francisco, CA 94104
Our panelists will discuss the proliferation of TRAP laws, which impose unnecessary regulations on clinics under the guise of protecting women’s health. They’ll review the Supreme Court’s decision this year in Whole Woman’s Health v. Hellerstedt and assess the future of gender equity and reproductive rights in the U.S.
Q Jill E. Adams , executive director, Center on
Reproductive Rights and Justice, Berkeley Law
Q Amy Everitt , state director of NARAL Pro-
Choice California and NARAL Pro-Choice
California Foundation
Q Kevin M. Fong , partner, Pillsbury Winthrop
Shaw Pittman LLP
The Elizabeth J. Cabraser Summer Lecture Series , named in honor of a distinguished attorney and friend of LAS-ELC, strives to present a wide spectrum of topics and views. Opinions expressed by the speakers do not necessarily reflect those of LAS-ELC’s Board, staff or underwriters. Interpretive services can be provided with 72 hours notice. For more information: call 415-864-8848 or visit www.las-elc.org
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