Prof. Kang to Lecture at NYU on Implicit Bias and Stereotype Threat
On behalf of The Joseph and Gwendolyn Straus Institute for the Advanced Study of Law & Justice, you are cordially invited to attend a lecture, part of The Straus Public Lectures Series:
“The Grand Challenges of Implicit Social Cognition and the Law”
presented by
Jerry Kang
Straus Fellow, David M. Friedman Fellow, NYU School of Law;
Professor of Law and Asian American Studies (by courtesy), UCLA
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Date: Tuesday, February 11th, 2014
Time: 6:00-7:30pm Lecture
7:30-8:30pm Post-lecture Reception
Location:
Faculty Library
Vanderbilt Hall, 3rd Floor
40 Washington Square S.
New York, NY 10012
Please kindly RSVP, if you would like to attend.
Jerry Kang
Straus Fellow, David M. Friedman Fellow, NYU School of Law;
Professor of Law and Asian American Studies (by courtesy), UCLA
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Date: Tuesday, February 11th, 2014
Time: 6:00-7:30pm Lecture
7:30-8:30pm Post-lecture Reception
Location:
Faculty Library
Vanderbilt Hall, 3rd Floor
40 Washington Square S.
New York, NY 10012
Please kindly RSVP, if you would like to attend.
Lecture Synopsis: Recent findings in experimental social psychology have demonstrated the existence of “implicit biases”–attitudes and stereotypes that we are neither aware of nor necessarily endorse. Social scientists have also discovered “stereotype threat”–that negative stereotypes can undermine performance when an individual believes that by doing poorly she will confirm those very stereotypes about the groups to which she belongs. In this talk, Professor Jerry Kang will survey the science of implicit biases and stereotype threat with emphasis on real-world consequences. Then, he will explore their implications for law, policy, and legal theory. Along the way, Prof. Kang will outline what he sees as the field’s “Grand Challenges” for the next quarter century.
The lecture is open to the public; please feel free to spread the word about the event.
NYU Symposium on Perry v. Brown
The N.Y.U. Review of Law & Social Change and NYU OUTLaw invite you to attend our upcoming symposium, Making Constitutional Change: the Past, Present, and Future Role of Perry v. Brown. The symposium will focus closely on this landmark Ninth Circuit case– holding California’s Proposition 8 in violation of the U.S. Constitution– and gathers many of its key players, including the lead Perry litigators themselves.
On Friday, October 5, at 9:00 a.m., MSNBC host Rachel Maddow will interview Perry litigators David Boies (LL.M. ‘67) and Theodore B. Olson. After, from 11:00 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., three panels will address Perry’s effect on the larger LGBTQ-rights movement, its effect on other marriage-equality litigation strategies, and how, in an ideal world, Perry should be decided if it goes to the Supreme Court. Panelists include Matt Coles, Erwin Chemerinsky, David Cruz ’94, Jon W. Davidson, William Eskridge, Jr., Roberta A. Kaplan, Melissa Murray, Jennifer C. Pizer ’88, Reva Siegel, Paul M. Smith, Therese Stewart, Andrea J. Ritchie, Adam Umhoefer, Evan Wolfson, and Kenji Yoshino, Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law at NYU School of Law.
Five and a half CLE credits are available for those attending all of the events on Friday, October 5.
We will also be hosting a staged reading of the American Foundation for Equal Rights and Broadway Impact’s 8, a play by Oscar-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black the night before, on Thursday, October 4 at 7:00 p.m. The play draws verbatim on Perry’s trial transcript and supplemental interviews. Will Pomerantz, of Epic Theater Ensemble, is directing and producing our show. The 90-minute reading will be followed by a discussion with Perry lay witness Ryan Kendall, Executive Director of the American Foundation for Equal Rights Adam Umhoefer, Executive Director of Epic Theater Ensemble Ron Russell, and the performers. Vice Dean Randy A. Hertz will moderate a conversation about how stories change minds. The panelists will also take questions from the audience.
All events are free and open to the public and will be at NYU School of Law, in Vanderbilt Hall, at 40 Washington Square South, New York, New York.
To attend any of these events, please register at http://nyulaw.imodules.com/makingconstitutionalchange.
Please click here to view the flyer and schedule of the event.
Cordially,
Mateya Kelley
Symposium Editor
N.Y.U. Review of Law & Social Change
Geoffrey Wertime
Co-Chair
NYU OUTLaw
18th Annual Justice William J. Brennan Jr. Lecture
18th Annual Justice William J. Brennan Jr. Lecture
On Wednesday, February 22, 2012, Chief Justice Stuart Rabner of the New Jersey Supreme Court will deliver the 18th Annual Justice William J. Brennan Jr. Lecture on State Courts and Social Justice at NYU School of Law. The lecture, titled “Evaluating Eyewitness Identification Evidence in the 21st Century,” will begin at 6:30 p.m. in Vanderbilt Hall, Greenberg Lounge, located at 40 Washington Square South, and will be followed by a reception. One CLE credit will be available.
Read more and register for this event here.