The Scholar’s Agenda
Breakfast Panel at the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Minority Groups at the AALS Workshop for New Law School, 22 June 2013
Alternatives to Isolated Confinement in New York State
Panel on Organizing Against Solitary Confinement in the Era of Mass Incarceration, Campaign for Alternatives to Isolated Confinement (CAIR), Left Forum 2013. Pace University, 6-8 June 2013
Aesthetics of Racism
Senior Commentator - 2013 Law and Humanities Junior Scholar Workshop. Center for Law, History & Culture, Columbia Law School, and UCLA School of Law, invited to comment on winning papers written by senior graduate students and untenured faculty on topics in law and the humanities. Georgetown University Law School, the University of Southern California, 3-4 June 2013
Cultural Intelligence
Invited to lecture on the subject of "Culture" at a meeting of the Boston College Alumni Association, Boston College Law School, 3 November 2012
Scholarship
Northeast People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference (NEPOC). Suffolk University School of Law, 25-27 October 2012
Children's Literature & the Law
Continuing Legal Education: Literature and the Law. Hampton Inn & Suites, Saratoga Springs, NY, 19 October 2012
Rainbow Signs: Jurisprudence as Eschatology
Faculty Colloquium. Albany Law School, 10 October 2012
The Spaceship & the Cross
Symposium: the Arc of Justice: The Life and Thought of Derrick Bell, part of the Rainbow Signs double panel that I organized. Western New England University School of Law, 28 September 2012
Critical Race Theory Workshop
Organized Critical Race Theory Workshop on Derrick Bell's Constitutional Law Scholarship. Albany Law School, 27 September 2012
"Planes of blatant impossibility": Law, Order and 3rd World Possibilities in Lord of the Flies
Law & Literature Conference on Lord of the Flies. Howard Law School, Washington, DC, 27 April 2012
Comments on Address by Ben Jealous, NAACP President, on Trayvon Martin and Racial Profiling
Albany Law School, 11 April 2012
Hip Hop and the Critique of Political Economy
Hip Hop and the American Constitution Lecture Series at Drexel Univerity's Earl Mack School of Law, 9 March 2012
Prison Abolition
Boston College Graduate Department of Sociology, 24 January 2012
Keynote Address: The Beloved Community Begins at Home
Martin Luther King Human Rights Speaker. Salt Lake Community College, Salt Lake City, UT, 22 January 2012
Opening Doors, Making Diversity Matter in Law School Admissions
BA to JD Pipeline Program Symposium. Hosted by Society of American Law Teachers and the St. John's School of Law, 11 November 2011
Careers
Exploring the American Family: Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty (CAPALF) and Northeast People of Color Conference (NEPOC), panel on scholarly agendas for law professors. Hoftstra University Law School, 3-5 November 2011
Keith Aoki’s Contributions to the Legal Academy
Exploring the American Family: Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty (CAPALF) and Northeast People of Color Conference (NEPOC). This was a eulogy for my friend, Keith Aoki. Hoftstra Law School, 3-5 November 2011
Emancipation
40 Years after the Attica Uprising: “Looking Back, Looking Forward.” Baldy Center for Law and Public Policy, University of Buffalo Law School, 11-12 September 2011
Keynote Address
Northeast Black Law Students' Association Regional Convention. Syracuse, NY, 30 September 2010
Critical Race Theory & Political Economy: Post-Racialism, Post-Marxism, and Other Fables of the Dispossession
A Three-Panel stream organized for the National People of Color Scholarship Conference. Seton Hall University School of Law, 9-12 September 2010
How to Become a Law Professor/Pipeline Program
Third National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference. Seton Hall University School of Law, 9-12 September 2010
The Abolition of Punishment: Keynote Address
The Day in Humanities, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. University of Connecticut, 9 April 2010
Abolition
Philosophical Café & Department of Philosophy. Union College, 1 March 2010
Keynote Address
Invited to be the Martin Luther King Human Rights Speaker. Salt Lake Community College, Salt Lake City, UT, 19 January 2010
Abolition: A Call for an Absolute End to the Prison
Invited to speak on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the publication of my article, "Thirteen Stories," in the Touro Law Review. Touro Law Center, 19 November 2009
Keynote Address: Conferring with the Flowers
Taking Oz Seriously: An International Law & Literature Conference on the Work of L. Frank Baum that I organized and hosted. Albany Law School, 13 November 2009
Opening Address: America's New Class Warfare?
Northeast People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference (NEPOC), Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy. University of Buffalo Law School, 23-24 October 2009
The Jurisprudence of the Johnson-Forest Tendency
Presentation at International Conference on the work of C.L.R James. University of Ottawa, Canada, 16-17 October 2009
The Johnson-Forest Tendency: Concluding Plenary of the Critical Legal Conference 2009
(w/ Costas Douzinas, Patricia Tuitt, Angus Macdonald, Adam Gearey) University of Leicester, United Kingdom, 13 September 2009
Abolition: Faculty Colloquium
Pace Law School, White Plains, NY, 9 March 2009
Gangsta: Sarah Palin and Class Politics: The Evolution of Street Knowledge
(with Cornel West) Hip Hop's Influence on Law and Culture. West Virginia University College of Law, 12-13 February 2009
Racism & the Law
Robert M. Cover Retreat, Boston University Sargent Center for Outdoor Education. Peterborough, New Hampshire, 29 February - 2 March 2008
Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?
Office of Minority Student Affairs and Technology Entry Program (with activist Barbara Smith). Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 24 January 2008
Keynote Address: Seasons in the Sun: Reflections on Race in 2008
at the 10th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Reflection and Commemoration at DePaul University College of Law. 21 January 2008