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The Paradoxes of Race, Law and Inequality in the United States
May 2-3, 2008 at the University of California, Irvine
Sponsored by the Center in Law, Society & Culture and the Law & Society Review
In the 1950s and 1960s, the Civil Rights Movement reinvigorated socio-legal scholarship and raised new questions about the plance of law in social, political, economic and cultural life. Today, scholars approach the analysis of race, law and inequality in the United States in a very different socio-political climate. There have been dramatic changes in immigration law, transformations in labor markets within the United States and overseas, skyrocketing concerns over security threats, increased use of racial profiling, new forms of incarceration, and increased fears of gang warfare. The paradoxes of race, law and inequality are at least as profounds as the were at the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement. To explore these issues in greater depth, a conference will be held at UCI in spring 2008 and a special symposium of the Review will follow in 2009.
