Professor Neil Gotanda (Western State University College of Law) will present the Spring Social Justice Diversity Lecture, Unfinished Business: Race, Rights, and Judicial Review on the Sixtieth Anniversary of U.S. v. Korematsu on Feb. 5 at 4 p.m. in Bannan 127. A reception, co- sponsored by the Center for Social Justice and Public Service and APALSA, in the Strong Commons Room will follow the lecture.
Professor Gotanda was an original participant in the Conference on Critical Legal Studies, co-founded the Conference on Critical Race Theory, and developed the earliest courses on Asian American jurisprudence.
His Asian American interests and activities date to the 1960s and include community work in San Francisco’s Japantown and teaching one of the earliest classes in Asian American studies at San Francisco State University in 1970.
He is a prolific author. Professor Gotanda is the co-editor with Kimberle Crenshaw, Gary Peller and Kendall Thomas of Critical Race Theory: Key Writings That Formed the Movement (New Press, 1995) and the author of Comparative Racialization: Racial Profiling and the Case of Wen Ho Lee, 47 UCLA Law Review 1689 (2000).
Professor Gotanda is a graduate of Stanford University, University of California Boalt Hall, and Harvard Law School. Before entering teaching, he worked with the Asian Law Caucus, California Rural Legal Assistance, and the California Fair Employment Commission. His litigation experience includes trials and appeals involving employment discrimination, civil rights, and constitutional law. In 1997 he was awarded the Clyde Ferguson Award by the Section on Minority Groups of the American Association of Law Schools.
This activity has been approved for Minimum Continuing Legal Education credit by the State Bar of California in the amount of one hour. Santa Clara University School of Law certifies that this activity conforms to the standards for approved education activities prescribed by the rules and regulations of the State Bar of California governing minimum continuing legal education.
