When: Thursday, October 17, 2024, 6:00 PM - 7:30 PMWhere: Online
Cheryl I. Harris is a renowned scholar in Critical Race Theory, celebrated for her groundbreaking contributions to the field. She holds the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Chair in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties at UCLA School of Law. Harris’ work examines the complex relationship between law and racial power, with a focus on anti-discrimination law, property rights, and evolving concepts of debt. Her seminal essay, Whiteness as Property (Harvard Law Review), remains a cornerstone of Critical Race Theory. A founding member of UCLA’s Critical Race Studies Program, she has served multiple terms as its faculty director. Her current projects include an initiative responding to the attacks on Critical Race Theory, for which she was the principal investigator on a major grant and the revision of the landmark textbook Race, Racism and American Law by Derrick Bell.
This event is part of the Critical Legal Talks Series, an international collaboration between Queen Mary University of London’s Law Department, the Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IHSS), and the Group of Critical Studies in Politics, Law, and Society (PoDeS) at the University of Buenos Aires. The series aims to challenge traditional views of law and legal institutions, offering a critical, interdisciplinary platform for exploring issues of global (in)justice. By fostering dialogue between scholars from the Global North and South, it seeks to bridge divides and inspire innovative approaches to legal and social challenges.
Contact details: Dr Alexis Alvarez-Nakagawa, Queen Mary University of London – a.alvareznakagawa@qmul.ac.uk.