Student Scholar Papers Presented at LatCrit XVI Conference

This year’s LatCrit XVI Conference was held in San Diego, California, October 6-9, 2011. After the always informative Junior Faculty Development Workshop, including panels on job talks development and teaching pedagogy, scholars and students presented their scholarship.

Presentations at LatCrit XVI included Arizona professors and students criticizing SB 1070 and issues in “Crimmigration,” with talks by Stephen Lee (UC Irvine) and Rose Cuison Villazor (Hofstra), as well as talks by many others on education, health care, citizenship, environmental justice, constitutional law and public values.

Thanks to the generous support of the UC Davis School of Law community, including the beloved late Professor Keith Aoki, Joanna Cuevas Ingram ’12, a current UC Davis School of Law student, and Rachel Ray ’11, a recent graduate, participated in this year’s LatCrit conference. Joanna and Rachel attended LatCrit to honor Professor Aoki’s unwavering commitment to social justice and critical legal scholarship.

Joanna presented “The Color of Change: Voting Rights in the 21st Century and the California Voting Rights Act,” (forthcoming in the Harvard Latino Law Review, Volume 15), analyzing potential voting rights protections for coalitions of historically disenfranchised voters who have experienced discrimination and/or dilution in accessing the right to vote.

Rachel presented “Insecure Communities: Examining Local Government Participation in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement,” which will be published in the forthcoming Fall/Winter 10.1 issue of the Seattle Journal for Social Justice.

Joanna Cuevas Ingram and Rachel Ray