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Watch: Founding the
Critical Race Studies Program
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As UCLA Law’s Critical Race Studies program celebrates its first two decades, founding members Devon W. Carbado, Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, Laura E. Gómez, Cheryl I. Harris, and Jerry Kang reflect on the program's founding in this short video.
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The Continuing Attack on
Critical Race Theory
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As Critical Race Theory has come under misguided attack in recent months, CRS faculty, who include many of the foremost experts in the field, have been in high demand. Our faculty members have driven the conversation in the media and elsewhere, setting the record straight on what CRT is – and isn’t – and reframing the conversation around the established principles that they have applied for decades.
For a sampling of the many media reports where CRS faculty, including LaToya Baldwin Clark, Kimberlé W. Crenshaw, Laura E. Gómez, and Cheryl I. Harris, have lent their voices, please see here.
If you'd like to join our team to push back on these attacks, please see our new announcement for a CRS Project Director & apply here.
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Community Leaders Erika J. Glazer and Alicia Miñana de Lovelace
Give Back to the CRS Program
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Last year, community leader and CRS supporter Erika J. Glazer pledged to match up to $50,000 in incoming donations to the Critical Race Studies program. Thanks to the dedicated support of our sponsors, alumni, and faculty, we reached and surpassed our donation goal!
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This past summer, alum Alicia Miñana de Lovelace generously donated $250,000 to CRS! De Lovelace is Chair of the UCLA School of Law’s Board of Advisors, a member of the UCLA Foundation Board of Directors, and, in 2020, she and her husband helped establish the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at UCLA Law. De Lovelace’s contributions will serve to allow CRS to hire a communications professional who will amplify and translate the transformative work that CRS faculty, students, and alumni are doing, as well as bring this important work to new audiences.
For more information on the CRS Communications Specialist position and how to apply, see our job listing here.
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UCLA Law Welcomes Race & Sexuality Law Teaching Fellows – and CRS alums – Gregory Davis and Emmanuel Mauleón |
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UCLA Law, the Critical Race Studies Program, and the Williams Institute are thrilled to welcome our first two Race & Sexuality Law Teaching Fellows, Gregory Davis and Emmanuel Mauleón! Both Davis and Mauleón are UCLA Law alums with specializations in CRS. They will teach classes on Critical Race Theory and Race, Sexuality & the Law, as well as continue their own research.
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Gregory Davis CRS '14 is the inaugural 2021-23 Richard Taylor Law Teaching Fellow. As a partnership between the Critical Race Studies Program and the Williams Institute, this fellowship will allow Davis to pursue research interests concerning the intersection of race, sexual orientation, and gender identity.
Davis graduated from UCLA with a joint JD and MA in African American Studies in 2014. As a UCLA Law student, Davis was very involved with both the Williams Institute and the Critical Race Studies Program. He credits CRS as the principal reason he applied to UCLA Law, stating that his purpose in attending law school was not only to learn marketable skills but to “really come to grips with what society we are living in and how to fix it.”
From 2014-2018, Davis was a Point Foundation Scholar and received numerous awards in recognition of his outstanding scholarship, teaching, and leadership. In 2020, Davis earned his PhD in African & African American Studies at Harvard University, which focused on exploring the dynamics, philosophies, and policies of diversity, inclusion, and identity. In his work, Davis strives to analyze and criticize the dynamic ways in which race and society intersect. During his fellowship, Davis will examine how affirmative action policies apply to people of color and LGBTQ communities.
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Emmanuel Mauleón CRS '18 is the incoming 2021-23 Bernard A. and Lenore S. Greenberg Legal Scholar Fellow. Mauleón, who holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, graduated from UCLA Law in 2018. After being deeply involved in community activism and police protests in New York City prior to law school, Mauleón said he specifically chose UCLA Law because he was energized by the prospect of finding a community of activists and scholars who engaged deeply with Critical Race Theory.
Following his graduation, Mauleón worked at the Policing Project at New York University Law School as the Policing and Technology Fellow and as a fellow in the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice. Most recently, he clerked for the Honorable Sarah Netburn in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Mauleón’s research focuses on policing and technology, counterterrorism, national security, domestic terrorism, and hate crimes. During his fellowship, Mauleón will explore new frameworks for understanding and challenging police violence against people of color and LGBTQ people, with a specific interest in Black Muslim and immigrant Muslim communities.
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Congrats to CRS Class of 2021 & Welcome to the Class of 2024! |
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With 75 JD students, the Class of 2021 marked one of the largest graduating Critical Race Studies classes to date. After completing over a third of their legal education remotely, and finishing their degrees online, the Class of 2021 celebrated this milestone during a virtual graduation ceremony that streamed live on May 21st.
The event featured CRS '21 graduate and co-president of the Native American Law Students Association, Ryann Basoco Garcia Lechuga, who presented the land acknowledgment and closed her remarks by calling on her fellow classmates: “to give back to the caretakers of this land as well as learn how to serve the indigenous peoples on lands we come to reside on.”
Jazmine Buckley CRS '21 was chosen as the JD Commencement Speaker and gave an impassioned speech tracing the many events that marked her cohort’s time at UCLA. From the Black Lives Matter protests of the summer of 2020 to a contentious national election to navigating life during a global pandemic, she highlighted how "we carried on the hard work of studying to become lawyers and we supported each other along the way.”
CRS core faculty member Jennifer Chacón, elected Professor of the Year by the graduating class, also delivered an inspiring message. “I hope that you will take this time to remember to hold on to what is soft in you and what is gentle in you – and as you go out to meet the hard world and all of the challenges that face you, that you will hold a little bit of that gentleness in your heart.”
As we say goodbye to our 2021 graduates, we are also pleased to welcome the incoming Class of 2024! With our largest ever entering 1L class, and many more to join by the end of year, we are excited to have even more members join our community!
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