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The Advocacy for Racial and Civil (ARC) Justice Clinic, Penn Carey Law’s newest in-house clinic, invites you to celebrate its launch at the Law School entitled “The Unfinished Work of Abolition.” The ARC Justice Clinic provides students with hands-on experience working in civil rights litigation and policy advocacy to combat systemic racism and is directed by Practice Associate Professor Cara McClellan.

The launch event will feature three panel discussions and a keynote talk by Professor Dorothy Roberts. The first panel will focus on how the legacy of slavery impacts the criminal justice system in the United States. Speakers will apply an abolitionist approach to envision new systems of public safety. The second panel will focus on education and the ways that our country’s history of racial segregation and unequal funding shape inequity today. The final panel will imagine how to use legal and organizing strategies to design a third reconstruction and ensure equal citizenship. Professor Roberts will consider the U.S. Constitution as an abolitionist document and discuss how activists might build a new abolition constitutionalism today.

0:00:00 - Welcome and Greeting
0:20:09 - SESSION 1 - Eradicating the Badges & Incidents of Slavery
1:31:27 - SESSION 2 - Fighting for a Fully-funded, Integrated & Culturally Responsive Education
2:37:46 - SESSION 3 - Radical Visions for a Third Reconstruction
3:41:54 - KEYNOTE ADDRESS - Professor Dorothy E. Roberts


Panel 1: Eradicating the Badges & Incidents of Slavery

Moderator: Anjelica Hendricks, Research Fellow at the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice, Penn Carey Law

Panelists: Sandra Mayson, Professor of Law, Penn Carey Law; Alexis J. Hoag-Fordjour Assistant Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Center for Criminal Justice at Brooklyn Law; Omavi Shukur, Research Scholar at Columbia Law; Jamelia Morgan, Professor of Law, Director, Center for Racial and Disability Justice at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law.


Panel 2: Fighting for a Fully Funded, Integrated, & Culturally Responsive Education

Moderator: Christopher R. Rogers GEd’13, GrEd’23

Panelists: Sarah Medina Camiscoli, Justice Catalyst Legal Fellow at Public Counsel and lecturer at the Yale; Kayla Vinson, Executive Director, Law and Racial Justice Center, Associate Research Scholar in Law, and Lecturer in Law at Yale Law; Dan Urevick-Ackelsberg L’ 09, Senior Attorney at the Public Interest Law Center; Shanée Garner, Founding Executive Director of Lift Every Voice Philly.


Panel 3: Radical Visions for a Third Reconstruction

Moderator: Cara McClellan GEd’12, Director of the Advocacy for Racial and Civil Justice Clinic and Practice Associate Professor of Law

Panelists: Amanda Alexander, Founding Executive Director, Detroit Justice Center; Kris Henderson, Executive Director at Amistad Law Project; Robert Saleem Holbrook, Executive Director of the Abolitionist Law Center and Lecturer in Law at Penn Carey Law; Purvi Shah, Founder & Executive Director at Movement Law Lab.

Keynote: Dorothy E. Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights