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Law, Power, and Resistance: Reframing Anti-Discrimination in Housing, Education, and Activism
This panel brings together critical interventions on how anti-discrimination law has been narrowed, weaponized, and resisted across multiple domains. One paper examines how Title VI enforcement has conflated antisemitism with criticism of Israel, subordinating Palestinian rights and chilling campus activism. Others trace the persistence of intersectional discrimination in housing, from the stigmatization of voucher holders to the exclusion of Black women through facially neutral screening practices. Another presentation looks back to Black Power lawyers of the 1960s and 70s as intellectual precursors to CRT, while a fourth unpacks the misuse of Section 1981—originally a Reconstruction-era civil rights safeguard—by anti-DEI advocates. Collectively, these papers reveal how law has been distorted to sustain hierarchies while also offering CRT-informed frameworks for reclaiming anti-discrimination principles in the struggle for racial justice.
•Sahar Aziz, Distinguished Professor of Law and Founding Director, Center for Security, Race and Rights, Rutgers University Law School, The Antisemitism of Essentializing Jews in Anti-Discrimination Enforcement
•Aissatou Barry, Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School, Discrimination By Any Other Name
•Joyce M. Bell, Associate Professor in Race, Diaspora & Indigeneity and Sociology, University of Chicago, Black Power Law: How Radical Lawyering Informed Critical Race Theory
•Michael Z. Green, Professor of Law, Dean’s Research Chair, and Director, Workplace Law Program, Texas A&M University School of Law, Reversing Section 1981 Reversals
•Yvette N. A. Pappoe, Associate Professor of Law, University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law,
Closing the Gap: Leveraging Intersectionality to Combat Source of Income Discrimination Under the Fair Housing Act
•Moderator: Laboni Hoq, Civil Rights Attorney, Hoq Law
Law, Power, and Resistance: Reframing Anti-Discrimination in Housing, Education, and Activism
This panel brings together critical interventions on how anti-discrimination law has been narrowed, weaponized, and resisted across multiple domains. One paper examines how Title VI enforcement has conflated antisemitism with criticism of Israel, subordinating Palestinian rights and chilling campus activism. Others trace the persistence of intersectional discrimination in housing, from the stigmatization of voucher holders to the exclusion of Black women through facially neutral screening practices. Another presentation looks back to Black Power lawyers of the 1960s and 70s as intellectual precursors to CRT, while a fourth unpacks the misuse of Section 1981—originally a Reconstruction-era civil rights safeguard—by anti-DEI advocates. Collectively, these papers reveal how law has been distorted to sustain hierarchies while also offering CRT-informed frameworks for reclaiming anti-discrimination principles in the struggle for racial justice.
•Sahar Aziz, Distinguished Professor of Law and Founding Director, Center for Security, Race and Rights, Rutgers University Law School, The Antisemitism of Essentializing Jews in Anti-Discrimination Enforcement
•Aissatou Barry, Assistant Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School, Discrimination By Any Other Name
•Joyce M. Bell, Associate Professor in Race, Diaspora & Indigeneity and Sociology, University of Chicago, Black Power Law: How Radical Lawyering Informed Critical Race Theory
•Michael Z. Green, Professor of Law, Dean’s Research Chair, and Director, Workplace Law Program, Texas A&M University School of Law, Reversing Section 1981 Reversals
•Yvette N. A. Pappoe, Associate Professor of Law, University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law,
Closing the Gap: Leveraging Intersectionality to Combat Source of Income Discrimination Under the Fair Housing Act
•Moderator: Laboni Hoq, Civil Rights Attorney, Hoq Law
