Program Archive

Past Programs

Children

Multidisciplinary Legal Representation and its Positive Impact on Reunifications

This webinar discusses the effectiveness of multidisciplinary legal teams that include lawyers, social work professionals, and advocates who have lived experiences navigating the child welfare system.

Immigration

Accountability, Reliance and Justice: Examining the Impact of the Supreme Court’s DACA Decision on DACA Recipients, Policymakers, and the Future of Immigration in the United States

This webinar discusses the short-term and long-term consequences of the Supreme Court’s latest pronouncement on the current administration’s immigration policy.

Human Rights

Shutting Doors: How the U.S. is Poised to End Asylum & Turn Its Back on the Persecuted

This webinar discusses proposed regulations that would eviscerate the current U.S. asylum system, making it effectively impossible for people fleeing persecution to obtain protection in the United States. If implemented, among other acute concerns, the rule would eliminate gender based asylum—shutting the door to anyone fleeing life-threatening persecution due to their gender, while undoing decades of legal precedent.

Courts & Judiciary

Title VII US Supreme Court Decision: A Discussion and Analysis

This webinar discusses and analyzes landmark SCOTUS LGBTQ+ rights-related rulings, what it means for LGBTQ+ individuals, and what impact these decisions will have on other areas of law.

Civil Rights & Constitution

For Heaven's Sake: The Intersection of Anti-Discrimination Legislation and Autonomy of Religious Institutions

This webinar discusses the seeming conflict between protecting the free exercise of religion and of free speech, on the one hand, and the strong state interest in enforcing prohibitions against discrimination, including discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity, on the other.

Bias & Discrimination

Under Review, Under Scrutiny, Under the Radar: The Federal Civil Rights Law Implications of the Recent U.S. Supreme Court Decisions in Comcast and Babb

This webinar discusses complex legal standards (including “but-for” causation, “motivating factor,” and more) and interprets what is now required to bring certain civil rights discrimination claims as a result of the recent Supreme Court decisions in Comcast v. National Association of African-American Owned Media and Babb v. Wilkie.

First Amendment

Hot Topics in Free Speech and Free Press

This webinar discusses current controversies over freedom of speech and freedom of the press.

Immigration

The Muslim Ban Revisited: Trump v. Hawaii Two Years Later

This webinar discusses the recent legal developments since Trump v. Hawaii.

Immigration

Do We Treat America’s Wartime Detainees Better Than Migrant Children?

This webinar discusses the treatment of migrant children fleeing violence in their native countries versus wartime detainees.

LGBTQ Legal Issues

Moving the Military’s HIV Policies Out of the 1990’s

This webinar discusses policies surrounding people living with HIV and the military., which are rooted in a lack of understanding and acceptance of current science about HIV, its transformation into a chronic manageable condition and the latest prevention tools, including treatment as prevention (U=U).

Privacy

FISA Surveillance Reform and the Section 215 Sunset

This webinar discusses the FISA surveillance authorities scheduled to sunset on March 15, an overview of the FISA reform proposals, and a discussion of the potential impact on privacy, civil liberties, and national security.

Government Benefits

Census 2020: What Lawyers With Inquiring Clients Should Know About Confidentiality and Other Issues

This webinar discusses the Census 2020 background, the content of the Census form, what the data is used for, how it will be collected, and the legal and other protections on Census data confidentiality.

Courts & Judiciary

How Adolescent Brain Science Supports Youth Engagement in Court Hearings and Case Planning

This webinar discusses the critical importance of adolescent brain science as it relates to foster care and the child welfare system.

Immigration

There is a National Emergency at the Southern Border. True or False?

This webinar discusses the legal developments and related ramifications of President Trump's declaration of a national emergency at the U.S. southern border with Mexico in order to build a wall.

Human Rights

Alternative Legal Solutions to International Human Rights Violations

This webinar discusses the novel ways that several international human rights attorneys have found to surmount obstacles when seeking justice for their clients.

Women's Rights

Direct from the Doctors & Lawyers on the Frontlines: Abortion Access in America

This webinar discusses the current landscape for abortion access from both the medical and legal perspectives.

Courts & Judiciary

Review of Immigration-Related U.S. Supreme Court Cases

This webinar discusses the most significant immigration cases heard by the Supreme Court, their ramifications, and what to expect in 2020.

Election

U.S. Elections 2020: Where and How Can We Draw a Constitutionally Permissible Line on Inflammatory Political Rhetoric?

This webinar discusses the question of whether a Constitutionally permissible line on inflammatory political rhetoric can be drawn.

First Amendment

Hot Topics in Free Speech and Free Press

This in-person program discusses current controversies over freedom of speech and freedom of the press.

Bias & Discrimination

Mass Violence Motivated by Hate: Are New Domestic Terrorism Laws the Answer?

This webinar discusses advantages and disadvantages of recent domestic terrorism laws, created in response to events of mass terrorism.

Taxation

Economic, Gender, & Racial Inequality in State and Local Tax Systems

This webinar discusses tax issues including how the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act exacerbates the impact of regressive state and local tax systems on inequality.

Election

Fourth Annual State of Voting Rights

This in-person program discusses new state laws and attempts to restrict the right to vote as well as ongoing voting rights litigation, gerrymandering, and prospective issues surrounding the 2020 general election.

Immigration

"Remain in Mexico": the Facts, the Fiction, and Methods to Challenge this Unprecedented Rebuke of America’s Asylum System

This program discusses an obscure provision in the Immigration and Nationality Act that require tens of thousands of asylum seekers to remain in Mexico during their removal proceedings, which the U.S. Department of Homeland Security began invoking in January 2019.

Bias & Discrimination

Rolling Back Disparate Impact and the Repercussions for Civil Rights

This program discusses the implications of recently proposed rule from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development that would significantly weaken disparate impact liability under the Fair Housing Act.

Courts & Judiciary

A Conversation on Bail Reform

Criminal defendants often face a significant restraint on their liberty even before indictment and trial: Pre-trial detention. Traditionally, bail has been understood as collateral to ensure that defendants return to court.

Immigration

Understanding and Implementing Security Precautions for Immigration Advocates in an Era of Increasing Fear and Anger

This webinar discusses anti-immigration actors, their motives, as well as practical security guidance to mitigate threats to your people, facilities and operations, while continuing to advance your missions.

Civil Rights & Constitution

Final Conscience Regulation: Does the New HHS Rule Promote Injustice?

This webinar discusses the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' final version of its conscience rule, authorizing individual healthcare workers and institutions to neglect providing certain services due to a religious or conscience objection.

Taxation

Economic, Gender, and Racial Inequality in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

This webinar discusses the numerous financial disadvantages that lower-income households, women, and people of color suffer under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and suggests how to better achieve equality for all Americans.

Criminal

Marsy's Law: Exploring the Legal and Practical Challenges

This webinar explores the Constitutional, legal and practical challenges that make Mary's Law, also known as the crime victims bill of rights, controversial.

Human Rights

Overcoming the Use of the Veto by the Permanent Members of the United Nations Security Council in the Face of Atrocity Crimes

This webinar discusses the role of the veto by permanent members of the Security Council in the face of atrocity crimes, the legalities of the Security Council veto by these members, and steps that might be taken to overcome the political bludgeon the veto has become.

Consumers

Arbitration and Access to Courts: A Discussion About the History, Complications & Future of Arbitration for Workers and Consumers

This webinar discusses the history, complications, and future of arbitration for workers and consumers.

Human Rights

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Report "Broken Promises: Continued Federal Funding Shortfall for Native Americans"

This webinar discusses the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights report, Broken Promises: Continuing Federal Funding Shortfall for Native Americans.

Women's Rights

Inside the Asian American Pacific Islander Women's Pay Gap: Legislative Approaches and Proactive Measures of Employers

This webinar discusses the pay gap experienced by Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) women.

LGBTQ Legal Issues

AIDS 2019: A Roundtable Discussion of Current and Emerging Legal and Policy Issues

This webinar discusses progress made and challenges remaining to achieving an "AIDS-free generation."

Criminal

Bail Reform Litigation: Past, Present, and Future

Bail reform is sweeping the country as jurisdictions enact reforms to prevent pretrial detention solely on the basis of inability to pay a set bail amount. Much of this reform has been spurred by successful litigation efforts on behalf of those detained.

Human Rights

Universal Jurisdiction: Its Successes, Failures and Opportunities to Hold Perpetrators of Human Rights Violations Accountable

This webinar discusses the role of universal jurisdiction to achieve justice when governments have failed to do so, when the United Nations Security Council is unable to refer cases to the ICC, when politics at the United Nations or more broadly within the international community thwart or hinder justice.

Civil Rights & Constitution

Your Money's No Good Here: Source of Income Discrimination in Housing

This webinar discusses advocacy strategies for capitalizing on the momentum to pass source of income anti-discrimination laws at the local, state, and federal levels.

Civil Rights & Constitution

The What, Why, and How of Blockchain Technology in Advancing Environmental and Social Justice

This webinar discusses how Blockchain technology offers innovative solutions to disaster relief, sustainable development, and issues of environmental, economic and social equity while first helping us understand the underlying technology behind it.

First Amendment

Hot Topics in Free Speech and Free Press: New Controversies on the Slippery Slope

This in-person program discusses several current free press and free speech controversies, including: the impact of White House criticism of the news media; the aftermath of important Supreme Court free speech rulings last spring and the likelihood of new and returning issues arising this Court term; what a more conservative Supreme Court means for free speech and free press; and where are we headed with free speech on campuses.

Immigration

Enhancing Detained Individuals Access to Legal Resources and Representation While in ICE Custody

The webinar discusses recent efforts to enhance access to legal representation and resources for ICE detainees, as well as the applicable ICE detention standards that inform and support these efforts.

Civil Rights & Constitution

Judicial Independence and Administrative Law Judges: Is this the End of an Era?

Join us for a Rapid Response Webinar, cosponsored by the Section of Civil Rights and Social Justice, the Administrative Law Section and the Judicial Division.

Courts & Judiciary

Gerrymandering and the New Supreme Court : Where Do We Go From Here?

The webinar discusses the two most recent Supreme Court decisions on gerrymandering, Gill v. Whitford and Benisek v. Lamone, the impact of Justice Kennedy’s retirement on challenges to gerrymandering, and where community and political activism challenging gerrymandering goes from here.

Immigration

In the Wake of Zero Tolerance – Best Practices for Representing Separated Parents and Children

This webinar discusses how to effectively represent these families and permit those who fear persecution to apply for asylum as required by law.

Election

Third Annual State of Voting Rights

This in-person program discusses the current state of voting rights and analyze new state laws and attempts to restrict the right to vote.

Immigration

Trump's Policy of Separating Families at the Border: U.S. Law, Court Rulings and Administration Policy

This webinar discusses the latest updates regarding reunification efforts and the administration's attempt to amend the Flores Settlement Agreement to allow prolonged detention of families.

Women's Rights

Where is the Link Between Sexual Harassment, Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence in the Workplace?

This webinar discusses the legal rights of victims of domestic and sexual violence in the workplace including state laws prohibiting discrimination, and access to paid leave from work.

Domestic & Sexual Violence

The Impact of Attorney General Session's Decision to Deny Asylum to Victims of Domestic Violence and Where We Go From Here

This webinar discusses Ms. A.B.'s efforts to seek asylum in the U.S., including Attorney General Sessions decision on June 11, 2018 not only to deny her asylum claim, but more broadly to state that victims of domestic violence generally would no longer be able successfully seek asylum.

Privacy

FISA Section 702 Reauthorization

This webinar discusses the Section 702 reauthorization and unpack the constitutional concerns surrounding the government’s warrantless foreign surveillance authority.

Women in the Law

The Shameful Truth: Sexual Harassment in the Legal Profession

This webinar discusses the persistence of sex-based harassment in the legal profession has profound effects on the physical and emotion well-being of female lawyers.

Education

The Climate Change We Crave: Positive School Environments

This webinar discusses positive school climate, defined as norms, values, and expectations that support people feeling socially, emotionally and physically safe.

Privacy

Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, and the Future of Consumer Privacy in America

This webinar discusses Facebook and the future of privacy in America.

Taxation

New Federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act: Increasing U.S. Income and Wealth Inequality

This webinar discusses the economic and social aspects of Congress’ shifting of the tax burden onto lower-income and working families through the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act.

Environment

Environmental Justice in the 21st Century Part 2: Threats and Opportunities

This in-person program discusses environmental justice in the 21st century.

Affordable Housing

"Hey hun! Just how bad do you want your heat fixed?" - Sexual Harassment in Residential Housing

This webinar discusses quid pro quo and hostile environment situations that arise in the residential housing context; both subsidized and non-subsidized housing.

Labor & Employment

Barriers to Combatting Sexual Harassment In and Out of Court and Legislative Reponses in the #MeToo Moment

This webinar discusses the obstacles that plaintiffs face in bringing and prevailing on sexual harassment claims, including the applicable statutes of limitations, administrative exhaustion requirements, judicial interpretations of sexual harassment protections and application of the “severe or pervasive” legal standard, and common employer practices that fail to adequately prevent and respond to workplace harassment and limit employees’ ability to speak out and obtain relief.

Consumers

Abusive Car Loan and Sale Practices: Scope and Potential Remedies to Strengthen Consumer Protections

This webinar discusses the trending legal issues relating to auto loan and sale practices that heavily impact low- and moderate-income consumers, the magnitude of its impact, and how regulators view these trends.

Women's Rights

Sexual Harassment & Assault in the Workplace: What is it, Where Does it Come From & What is its Scope and History?

This webinar discusses the movement we are in at this moment, and place it in the larger context of the history of our evolving understanding of sexual harassment, including the cultural, racial, economic and power dynamics in our society that are the root causes as well as the evolution of our societal and legal system response.

Health

Civil Rights Protection for Discrimination? Recent Developments in the HHS Office of Civil Rights

This webinar discusses the new division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and proposed rule and offer their views of what appears to be expanded protection for healthcare refusals.

Education

The ABCs of Adequate School Funding

This webinar discusses the troubling conditions in inadequately funded school districts and the impact it has on students and teachers.

Tribal Law & Courts

Five Years Later: An Update on VAWA 2013 Special Domestic Violence Criminal Jurisdiction (over Non-Indians)

This webinar discusses the National Congress of American Indians' recent report, "Special Domestic Violence Criminal Jurisdiction Five Year Report" as well as the need for special jurisdiction, an overview of the process, the findings of implementing special jurisdiction, and profiles of the 18 tribes who have implemented special jurisdiction.

Elder

Uniform Guardianship, Conservatorship, and Other Protective Arrangements Act (UGCOPAA) & State Advocacy

This webinar discusses the newly adopted Uniform Guardianship, Conservatorship, and Other Protective Arrangements Act (UGCOPAA) and how it can be used as part of state-level advocacy efforts.

Disability

Supported Decision Making as a Less Restrictive Alternative to Guardianship: What Judges Need to Know

This webinar discusses the principles involved in supported decision making and its use in ensuring self-determination for people with disabilities.

Health

Recently Approved and Pending Medicaid Waivers and Their Implications

This webinar discusses the federal Medicaid agency letter allowing states to condition Medicaid eligibility on work requirements, and said waiver's authority.

Immigration

A False Sense of Relief Part II: Asylum in the Trump Era

This webinar discusses recent detention and asylum-related cases and the broad disparity in asylum grant rates among the various Immigration Courts and the U.S. Courts of Appeal.

First Amendment

Hot Topics in Free Speech and Free Press: New Controversies on the Slippery Slope

This in-person program discusses several current free press and free speech controversies, including: White House threats to broadcast licenses and other criticism of the news media; the growing volume of clashes on campuses over controversial speakers; the National Football League “take a knee” movement; and a look at the free speech issues in the pending Supreme Court case involving a Colorado baker’s refusal to provide a wedding cake for a same-sex couple.

Privacy

Where Are We With Location Privacy? Reactions to the Supreme Court's Oral Argument in Carpenter v. United States

This webinar discusses Carpenter v. United States, in which the Supreme Court will decide whether the Fourth Amendment bars the warrantless collection of cell phone location records.

Environment

Environmental Justice in the 21st Century: Threats and Opportunities

This in-person program discusses the various ways the Environmental Justice Act addresses critical issues for vulnerable communities nationwide (especially communities of color) in light of historical, ongoing challenges, as well as new ones posed by the Trump Administration.

Environment

Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria, and Nate: Environmental Justice and Economic Justice Implications of Climate Change

This webinar discusses the environmental impact of these hurricanes on climate change, and the economic challenges the affected areas will face in the coming months.

Civil Rights & Constitution

At a Crossroads: Native American Sovereignty, Water Rights, and Climate Change

This webinar discusses Native American water rights under the law and how these rights are impacted by current policy.

Women's Rights

Federal Rulemaking on Contraception and Implications for Women's Health

This webinar discusses the interim final rules restricting access to birth control by allowing employers, health insurance providers, and universities that claim a religious or moral objection to drop insurance coverage for contraception with limited notice to their employees and students.

Hurricane Maria and its Aftermath in Puerto Rico

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Past Programs

Multidisciplinary Legal Representation and its Positive Impact on Reunifications

Accountability, Reliance and Justice: Examining the Impact of the Supreme Court’s DACA Decision on DACA Recipients, Policymakers, and the Future of Immigration in the United States

Shutting Doors: How the U.S. is Poised to End Asylum & Turn Its Back on the Persecuted

Title VII US Supreme Court Decision: A Discussion and Analysis

For Heaven's Sake: The Intersection of Anti-Discrimination Legislation and Autonomy of Religious Institutions

Under Review, Under Scrutiny, Under the Radar: The Federal Civil Rights Law Implications of the Recent U.S. Supreme Court Decisions in Comcast and Babb

Hot Topics in Free Speech and Free Press

The Muslim Ban Revisited: Trump v. Hawaii Two Years Later

Do We Treat America’s Wartime Detainees Better Than Migrant Children?

Moving the Military’s HIV Policies Out of the 1990’s

FISA Surveillance Reform and the Section 215 Sunset

Census 2020: What Lawyers With Inquiring Clients Should Know About Confidentiality and Other Issues

How Adolescent Brain Science Supports Youth Engagement in Court Hearings and Case Planning

There is a National Emergency at the Southern Border. True or False?

Alternative Legal Solutions to International Human Rights Violations

Direct from the Doctors & Lawyers on the Frontlines: Abortion Access in America

Review of Immigration-Related U.S. Supreme Court Cases

U.S. Elections 2020: Where and How Can We Draw a Constitutionally Permissible Line on Inflammatory Political Rhetoric?

Hot Topics in Free Speech and Free Press

Mass Violence Motivated by Hate: Are New Domestic Terrorism Laws the Answer?

Economic, Gender, & Racial Inequality in State and Local Tax Systems

Fourth Annual State of Voting Rights

"Remain in Mexico": the Facts, the Fiction, and Methods to Challenge this Unprecedented Rebuke of America’s Asylum System

Rolling Back Disparate Impact and the Repercussions for Civil Rights

A Conversation on Bail Reform

Understanding and Implementing Security Precautions for Immigration Advocates in an Era of Increasing Fear and Anger

Final Conscience Regulation: Does the New HHS Rule Promote Injustice?

Economic, Gender, and Racial Inequality in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

Marsy's Law: Exploring the Legal and Practical Challenges

Overcoming the Use of the Veto by the Permanent Members of the United Nations Security Council in the Face of Atrocity Crimes

Arbitration and Access to Courts: A Discussion About the History, Complications & Future of Arbitration for Workers and Consumers

The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights Report "Broken Promises: Continued Federal Funding Shortfall for Native Americans"

Inside the Asian American Pacific Islander Women's Pay Gap: Legislative Approaches and Proactive Measures of Employers

AIDS 2019: A Roundtable Discussion of Current and Emerging Legal and Policy Issues

Bail Reform Litigation: Past, Present, and Future

Universal Jurisdiction: Its Successes, Failures and Opportunities to Hold Perpetrators of Human Rights Violations Accountable

Your Money's No Good Here: Source of Income Discrimination in Housing

The What, Why, and How of Blockchain Technology in Advancing Environmental and Social Justice

Hot Topics in Free Speech and Free Press: New Controversies on the Slippery Slope

Enhancing Detained Individuals Access to Legal Resources and Representation While in ICE Custody

Judicial Independence and Administrative Law Judges: Is this the End of an Era?

Gerrymandering and the New Supreme Court : Where Do We Go From Here?

In the Wake of Zero Tolerance – Best Practices for Representing Separated Parents and Children

Third Annual State of Voting Rights

Trump's Policy of Separating Families at the Border: U.S. Law, Court Rulings and Administration Policy

Where is the Link Between Sexual Harassment, Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence in the Workplace?

The Impact of Attorney General Session's Decision to Deny Asylum to Victims of Domestic Violence and Where We Go From Here

FISA Section 702 Reauthorization

The Shameful Truth: Sexual Harassment in the Legal Profession

The Climate Change We Crave: Positive School Environments

Facebook, Cambridge Analytica, and the Future of Consumer Privacy in America

New Federal Tax Cuts and Jobs Act: Increasing U.S. Income and Wealth Inequality

Environmental Justice in the 21st Century Part 2: Threats and Opportunities

"Hey hun! Just how bad do you want your heat fixed?" - Sexual Harassment in Residential Housing

Barriers to Combatting Sexual Harassment In and Out of Court and Legislative Reponses in the #MeToo Moment

Abusive Car Loan and Sale Practices: Scope and Potential Remedies to Strengthen Consumer Protections

Sexual Harassment & Assault in the Workplace: What is it, Where Does it Come From & What is its Scope and History?

Civil Rights Protection for Discrimination? Recent Developments in the HHS Office of Civil Rights

The ABCs of Adequate School Funding

Five Years Later: An Update on VAWA 2013 Special Domestic Violence Criminal Jurisdiction (over Non-Indians)

Uniform Guardianship, Conservatorship, and Other Protective Arrangements Act (UGCOPAA) & State Advocacy

Supported Decision Making as a Less Restrictive Alternative to Guardianship: What Judges Need to Know

Recently Approved and Pending Medicaid Waivers and Their Implications

A False Sense of Relief Part II: Asylum in the Trump Era

Hot Topics in Free Speech and Free Press: New Controversies on the Slippery Slope

Where Are We With Location Privacy? Reactions to the Supreme Court's Oral Argument in Carpenter v. United States

Environmental Justice in the 21st Century: Threats and Opportunities

Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, Maria, and Nate: Environmental Justice and Economic Justice Implications of Climate Change

At a Crossroads: Native American Sovereignty, Water Rights, and Climate Change

Federal Rulemaking on Contraception and Implications for Women's Health

Hurricane Maria and its Aftermath in Puerto Rico

A False Sense of Relief: Analyzing Mental Health Trauma in Refugee Communities

What’s Up with the Graham-Cassidy Proposal?

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