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This panel assembles leading scholars whose work exemplifies Critical Race Theory’s evolution beyond its foundational frameworks. While honoring CRT’s origins, our panelists expand theoretical conversations through diverse methodological approaches: historical analysis of racial categories and comparative formations, sociological examination of Latino/Latina identity within racial hierarchies, international human rights and Third World legal perspectives, and empirical research on implicit bias intersecting race, gender, and sexuality.
The discussion will explore how interdisciplinary methodologies have enriched CRT’s analytical toolkit while generating productive theoretical tensions. How does historical methodology—straddling empirical social science and interpretive humanities—reshape understanding of racial formation? How does evidence of implicit bias complement or challenge CRT’s structural critique? What transformations occur when CRT travels transnationally, encountering different racial formations and legal systems? How do intersectional analyses of race, gender, sexuality, and class both fulfill and complicate CRT’s original vision?
By embracing both CRT’s expanding intellectual influence and its generative internal debates, this panel charts future directions for critical race scholarship across legal and interdisciplinary contexts, demonstrating the theory’s continued relevance and methodological sophistication.
• Aslı Ü. Bâli, Howard M. Holtzmann Professor of Law, Yale Law School
• Laura E. Gómez, Lee & Leon Karelitz Chair in Evidence & Procedure, The University
of New Mexico School of Law and Rachel F. Moran Endowed Chair in Law Emerita,
UCLA School of Law
• Ariela Gross, Distinguished Professor of Law and History, UCLA School of Law
• Russell K. Robinson, Walter Perry Johnson Professor of Law and Faculty Director,
Center on Race, Sexuality, and Culture, UC Berkeley School of Law
• Moderator: Jerry Kang, Ralph and Shirley Shapiro Distinguished Professor of
Law, UCLA School of Law; Distinguished Professor of Asian American Studies (by
courtesy); Inaugural Korea Times – Hankook Ilbo Endowed Chair (2010-20); Founding
Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (2015-20), UCLA
This panel assembles leading scholars whose work exemplifies Critical Race Theory’s evolution beyond its foundational frameworks. While honoring CRT’s origins, our panelists expand theoretical conversations through diverse methodological approaches: historical analysis of racial categories and comparative formations, sociological examination of Latino/Latina identity within racial hierarchies, international human rights and Third World legal perspectives, and empirical research on implicit bias intersecting race, gender, and sexuality.
The discussion will explore how interdisciplinary methodologies have enriched CRT’s analytical toolkit while generating productive theoretical tensions. How does historical methodology—straddling empirical social science and interpretive humanities—reshape understanding of racial formation? How does evidence of implicit bias complement or challenge CRT’s structural critique? What transformations occur when CRT travels transnationally, encountering different racial formations and legal systems? How do intersectional analyses of race, gender, sexuality, and class both fulfill and complicate CRT’s original vision?
By embracing both CRT’s expanding intellectual influence and its generative internal debates, this panel charts future directions for critical race scholarship across legal and interdisciplinary contexts, demonstrating the theory’s continued relevance and methodological sophistication.
• Aslı Ü. Bâli, Howard M. Holtzmann Professor of Law, Yale Law School
• Laura E. Gómez, Lee & Leon Karelitz Chair in Evidence & Procedure, The University
of New Mexico School of Law and Rachel F. Moran Endowed Chair in Law Emerita,
UCLA School of Law
• Ariela Gross, Distinguished Professor of Law and History, UCLA School of Law
• Russell K. Robinson, Walter Perry Johnson Professor of Law and Faculty Director,
Center on Race, Sexuality, and Culture, UC Berkeley School of Law
• Moderator: Jerry Kang, Ralph and Shirley Shapiro Distinguished Professor of
Law, UCLA School of Law; Distinguished Professor of Asian American Studies (by
courtesy); Inaugural Korea Times – Hankook Ilbo Endowed Chair (2010-20); Founding
Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (2015-20), UCLA
