Friday, November 2
8:00 - 9:00 a.m. — Registration and Continental Breakfast - Event Hall
9:00 - 9:30 a.m. — Welcome and Introduction - Event Hall
Gregory W. Bowman, William J. Maier, Jr. Dean, Professor, WVU College of Law
Matt Titolo, Professor, WVU College of Law
Danielle Kie Hart, ClassCrits President, Professor of Law, Southwestern Law School
Martha McCluskey, Professor, William J. Magavern Faculty Scholar, University at
Buffalo School of Law
9:30 - 10:45 a.m. — Plenary I: Rurality: Challenges and Power for Change
Nicholas Stump, Faculty Member, George R. Farmer. Jr. Law Library, WVU College of Law, Appalachia Reconstructed: Law, The Environment and Systemic Regional Reform
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. — Concurrent Session 1
(1A) Federalism and Inequality: Health, Social Welfare, and Justice - Room 154
Laura D. Hermer, John H. Faricy Professor in Empirical Research, Mitchell Hamline School of Law, Independence is the New Health
Meredith Johnson Harbach, Professor of Law, University of Richmond, Childcare, Vulnerability, and Resilience
George Bach, Associate Professor, UNM School of Law, Federalism and the State Police Power - Why Immigration and Customs Enforcement Must Stay Away from State Courthouses
2:15 – 4:00 p.m. Concurrent Session 2
(2A) Reframing Democracy and Solidarity: Past, Present, Future - Room 154
Frank Munger, Professor of Law, New York Law School, Rising Together: Racial Inequality Fifty Years After the Civil Rights Era
Atiba Ellis, Professor of Law, Marquette University Law School, The Corrupted Meanings of Democratic Integrity in the Era of Trump
Athena Mutua, Professor, Floyd H. & Hilda L. Hurst Faculty Scholar, University at Buffalo School of Law, Liberalism's Identity Politics: A Response to Fukuyama's "Against Identity Politics"
Jonathan D. Glater, Professor of Law, UCI Law, The Forgotten Bailout: Student Lenders in the Financial Crisis
Andrea J. Boyack, Professor, Washburn University School of Law, Too Poor for Bankruptcy
(3A) Community Economic Development - Room 154
Patience Crowder, Associate Professor, University of Denver Sturm College of Law, Impact Transaction: Inclusionary Zoning as an Equitable Model for Small Business Development
(4A) Plaintiffs, Procedure & Power - Room 154
Corinne Blalock, JD/PhD candidate Duke University, Toward a Politics of Tedium: Arbitration and the Problem of Salience
Jason Rathod, Class Action Trial Attorney, Migliaccio & Rathod LLP, Epic Systems v. Lewis and Regimes of Private Enforcement
Sandeep Vaheesan, Policy Counsel, Open Markets Institute, Antitrust as a Weapon of Capital
Emily Spieler, Hadley Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law, Anti-Retaliation statutes, Whistleblowers, and Worker Voice: Occupational safety and Health Law as an Example of the Inadequacies of Worker Protections
(4B) Imagining New Futures: Creating Speculative Fiction for Life After Capitalism - Room 157
Raúl Carrillo, Modern Money Network; Staff Attorney, New Economy Project, Modern Money and Consumer Finance
Lua Kamál Yuille, Associate Professor, University of Kansas School of Law, Property and Money
Raúl Carrillo, Modern Money Network; Staff Attorney, New Economy Project, Establishing and Enforcing a Constitutional Right to a Job
Sanjukta Paul, Assistant Professor, Wayne State University College of Law, Failures of Labor Regulation & Potential Implications of a Public Option for Employment
Philip L. Harvey, Professor, Rutgers School of Law, Drafting Job Guarantee Legislation: HR 1000 and the New York City Jobs for All Bill
Rohan Grey, Doctoral Fellow, Cornell Law School; President, Modern Money Network, Promoting the Progress of Science and the Useful Arts Through a Job Guarantee
2:15-2:30 p.m. Break
Angela P. Harris, Distinguished Professor of Law, Boochever and Bird Endowed Chair for the Study of the Teaching of Freedom of Equality, The Treadmill and the Contract: New Directions in Law and Political Economy
9:30 - 10:45 a.m. — Plenary I: Rurality: Challenges and Power for Change
Nicholas Stump, Faculty Member, George R. Farmer. Jr. Law Library, WVU College of Law, Appalachia Reconstructed: Law, The Environment and Systemic Regional Reform
Wendy A. Bach, Associate Professor, The University of Tennessee College of Law,
The Tools in their Hands and the Limits of their Dreams: The Opioid Crisis
in the Age of Austerity
Antonia Eliason, Assistant Professor, University of Mississippi School of Law,
Sustainable Development and Critical Environmental Theory: Localizing the Global
10:45 - 11:00 a.m. — Break
10:45 - 11:00 a.m. — Break
11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. — Concurrent Session 1
(1A) Federalism and Inequality: Health, Social Welfare, and Justice - Room 154
Laura D. Hermer, John H. Faricy Professor in Empirical Research, Mitchell Hamline School of Law, Independence is the New Health
Meredith Johnson Harbach, Professor of Law, University of Richmond, Childcare, Vulnerability, and Resilience
George Bach, Associate Professor, UNM School of Law, Federalism and the State Police Power - Why Immigration and Customs Enforcement Must Stay Away from State Courthouses
Ezra Rosser, Professor, American University Washington College of Law,
Falling through the Cracks: Federalism and the Poor Federalism and Poverty
Law
(1B) Education, Inequality, and Justice - Room 157
Erika K. Wilson, Thomas Wills Lambeth Distinguished Professor in Public Policy, UNC School of Law, Monopolizing Whiteness
Erika K. Wilson, Thomas Wills Lambeth Distinguished Professor in Public Policy, UNC School of Law, Monopolizing Whiteness
Ruhiyyih N. Yuille, Speech and Language Pathologist, Educational Specialist,
All Suitable Means
Thomas E. Kleven, Professor of Law, Thurgood Marshall School of Law,
How Racism Morphs in a Racist Society: The Case of Thurgood Marshall School
of Law versus the ABA
Harold McDougall,
How to Talk About Reparations: The Social Justice Academy
12:30 - 2:15 p.m. — Lunch - Event Hall
Local Activism Roundtable with Mountain State Justice
2:15 – 4:00 p.m. Concurrent Session 2
(2A) Reframing Democracy and Solidarity: Past, Present, Future - Room 154
Frank Munger, Professor of Law, New York Law School, Rising Together: Racial Inequality Fifty Years After the Civil Rights Era
Atiba Ellis, Professor of Law, Marquette University Law School, The Corrupted Meanings of Democratic Integrity in the Era of Trump
Athena Mutua, Professor, Floyd H. & Hilda L. Hurst Faculty Scholar, University at Buffalo School of Law, Liberalism's Identity Politics: A Response to Fukuyama's "Against Identity Politics"
Jamee K. Moudud, Professor of Economics, Sarah Lawrence College,
Libertarian Doublespeak: Obscuring Distributional Struggles Under the Banner
of Economic Liberty
(2B) Financial Justice - Room 157
Pamela Foohey, Associate Professor of Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Life in the Sweatbox
Pamela Foohey, Associate Professor of Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, Life in the Sweatbox
Jonathan D. Glater, Professor of Law, UCI Law, The Forgotten Bailout: Student Lenders in the Financial Crisis
Andrea J. Boyack, Professor, Washburn University School of Law, Too Poor for Bankruptcy
Jay Varellas, Graduate Student, UC Berkeley Political Science, Capitalizing on
Social Norms: Secular Stagnation,
Risk-Seeking Investment Funds, and the Generalization of Extractive Corporate
Strategies
4:00 - 4:15 p.m. Break
4:15 – 6:00 p.m.— Concurrent Session 3
4:00 - 4:15 p.m. Break
4:15 – 6:00 p.m.— Concurrent Session 3
(3A) Community Economic Development - Room 154
Patience Crowder, Associate Professor, University of Denver Sturm College of Law, Impact Transaction: Inclusionary Zoning as an Equitable Model for Small Business Development
Renee Hatcher, Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the Business Clinic,
The John Marshall School of Law, Towards a Solidarity Economy Approach to Community
Economic Development
Etienne Toussaint, Assistant Professor, David A. Clarke School of Law,
Justice-Based Economic Development: Bridging The Gap From Pay-For-Success Toward
A New Regionalism
John Whitlow, Associate Professor, CUNY School of Law,
Beyond Access to Justice: Challenging the Neoliberal Roots of Hyper-Gentrification
Kathryn Sabbeth, Associate Professor of Law, UNC School of Law,
Enforcement of Poor People's Rights: The Case of Housing Standards.
(3B) Emotion, Law and Politics: Past and Present - Room 157
Lucy Jewel, Professor and Director of Legal Writing, University of Tennessee College of Law, and Mary Campbell, Professor of Art, University of Tennessee, Seeing Terror in the Shadows: Corporal Pain and White Supremacy
(3B) Emotion, Law and Politics: Past and Present - Room 157
Lucy Jewel, Professor and Director of Legal Writing, University of Tennessee College of Law, and Mary Campbell, Professor of Art, University of Tennessee, Seeing Terror in the Shadows: Corporal Pain and White Supremacy
Emotion and Politics in the Trump Era: A Conversation
Rachel Ezrol, Feminist & LGBTQIA Activist; Program Coordinator, Vulnerability
and the Human Condition Initiative, Emory University
Ruhiyyih N. Yuille, Monrovia Hellions, Progressive Political Activist
Rana Jaleel, Assistant Professor Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, University
of California, Davis
Lua Kamál Yuille, Associate Professor, University of Kansas School of Law
6:00-8:00 p.m. — Dinner - Event Hall
6:00-8:00 p.m. — Dinner - Event Hall
Keynote: Elizabeth Catte,
What You’re Getting Wrong About Appalachia
8:00 – 9:30 a.m. Breakfast & Works In Progress Individual Sessions
Saturday, November 3
8:00 – 9:30 a.m. Breakfast & Works In Progress Individual Sessions
(see listing in your program)
We encourage all participants to participate in discussing one of the individual
presentation by emerging scholars over breakfast.
9:30 - 11:00 a.m. — Concurrent Session 4
9:30 - 11:00 a.m. — Concurrent Session 4
(4A) Plaintiffs, Procedure & Power - Room 154
Corinne Blalock, JD/PhD candidate Duke University, Toward a Politics of Tedium: Arbitration and the Problem of Salience
Jason Rathod, Class Action Trial Attorney, Migliaccio & Rathod LLP, Epic Systems v. Lewis and Regimes of Private Enforcement
Sandeep Vaheesan, Policy Counsel, Open Markets Institute, Antitrust as a Weapon of Capital
Benjamin Douglas, Workers’ Compensation Attorney, Ashcraft & Gerel LLP,
The Unrepresented Class: The 99% are Losing the War for Workers' Comp
Emily Spieler, Hadley Professor of Law, Northeastern University School of Law, Anti-Retaliation statutes, Whistleblowers, and Worker Voice: Occupational safety and Health Law as an Example of the Inadequacies of Worker Protections
(4B) Imagining New Futures: Creating Speculative Fiction for Life After Capitalism - Room 157
Discussion leaders: Ellie Campbell, Reference and Instruction Law Librarian,
University of Mississippi; Antonia Eliason, Assistant Professor, University
of Mississippi School of Law
Discussants: René Reich-Graefe, Professor, Western New England School of Law
Matt Titolo, Professor, WVU College of Law
11:00 - 11:15 a.m. Break
11:15 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. — Concurrent Session 5
(5A) The Role of Money in the New Law and Political Economy - Room 154
Rohan Grey, Doctoral Fellow, Cornell Law School; President, Modern Money Network, Digital Money
11:00 - 11:15 a.m. Break
11:15 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. — Concurrent Session 5
(5A) The Role of Money in the New Law and Political Economy - Room 154
Rohan Grey, Doctoral Fellow, Cornell Law School; President, Modern Money Network, Digital Money
Raúl Carrillo, Modern Money Network; Staff Attorney, New Economy Project, Modern Money and Consumer Finance
Lua Kamál Yuille, Associate Professor, University of Kansas School of Law, Property and Money
Jamee K. Moudud, Professor of Economics, Sarah Lawrence College,
Free Trade Free for All: Market Romanticism vs. Reality
(5B) Unequal Exchanges: Consent, Trust, and Economic Power - Room 157
Chunlin Leonhard, Leon Sarpy Distinguished Professor of Law, Loyola University, New Orleans, Your Money or Your Life? Consent Law’s Choice
(5B) Unequal Exchanges: Consent, Trust, and Economic Power - Room 157
Chunlin Leonhard, Leon Sarpy Distinguished Professor of Law, Loyola University, New Orleans, Your Money or Your Life? Consent Law’s Choice
Danielle Kie Hart, Professor of Law, Southwestern Law School,
Freedom of Contract
René Reich-Graefe, Professor, WNE School of Law,
Bayesian Trust, Trust Intermediation & Boundary Spanning
Eric George, Ph.D. Candidate, York Univ. and Journal of LPE Managing Editor,
Routinizing Enforcement: The Neo-Conservative Capture of the Federal Arbitration
Act
12:45 - 2:15 p.m. — Lunch & Plenary - Event Hall
Good Jobs for All: Why and How Government Should Guarantee Full Employment
Raúl Carrillo, Modern Money Network; Staff Attorney, New Economy Project, Establishing and Enforcing a Constitutional Right to a Job
Sanjukta Paul, Assistant Professor, Wayne State University College of Law, Failures of Labor Regulation & Potential Implications of a Public Option for Employment
Philip L. Harvey, Professor, Rutgers School of Law, Drafting Job Guarantee Legislation: HR 1000 and the New York City Jobs for All Bill
Rohan Grey, Doctoral Fellow, Cornell Law School; President, Modern Money Network, Promoting the Progress of Science and the Useful Arts Through a Job Guarantee
2:15-2:30 p.m. Break
2:30- 4:00 p. m. — Closing Plenary - Event Hall
A Curriculum for the Invisible College: Directions in Law and Political Economy
Angela P. Harris, Distinguished Professor of Law, Boochever and Bird Endowed Chair for the Study of the Teaching of Freedom of Equality, The Treadmill and the Contract: New Directions in Law and Political Economy
Veena Dubal, Associate Professor, UC Hastings College of Law,
What Ethnography Brings to the Study of Law and Political Economy
Matt Titolo, Professor, WVU College of Law,
What Legal History Brings to the Study of Law and& Political Economy
Jay Varellas,
The New Law and Political Economy of Finance
