CUNY Center on Latinx Rights & Equality

06/08/2023

https://aldia.microjuris.com/2023/06/05/proponen-alternativas-ante-la-inequidad-juridica-en-puerto-rico/
Thank you to MicroJuris for covering our presentation at the 2023 Law and Society conference on the Supreme Court's arbitrary and unequal treatment of Puerto Rico and the implications for Puerto Rico's governance and its people.

Las expresiones se realizaron durante el foro When the U.S. Supreme Court Ignores National Origin Race-Based Inequities in Citizenship and Sovereignty for Puerto Ricans and others born in U.S. Terr…

12/03/2021

For four years, President Trump’s unabashedly partisan, mostly white, and too often unqualified judicial appointments severely undermined the diversity and integrity of U.S. federal courts, with a damaging impact for years to come on the Latino community

03/16/2021

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WNYC Studios creates award-winning podcasts such as Radiolab, On The Media, The New Yorker Radio Hour, Death, S*x & Money, and The Experiment.

01/12/2021

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12/03/2020

Important discussion about anti-racist law faculty hiring practices

11/22/2020

https://law.cunytuesday.org/p2p/172680/natalie-gomez-velez-of-clre #

Support Natalie Gomez-Velez of CLRE's Fundraiser for 2020

09/10/2020

Pleased to share my article "Judicial Selection: Diversity, Discretion, Inclusion, and the Idea of Justice" just published in the Capital Law Review. The article discusses the importance of judicial diversity and inclusion, particularly for members of groups most marginalized, not only for representative purposes, but to improve justice in practice.

By Natalie Gomez-Velez. This article examines the state of judicial diversity, its importance, and obstacles to its improvement.

09/10/2020

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A timely and groundbreaking argument that all Americans must grapple with Latinos’ dynamic racial identity—because it impacts everything we think we know about race in America. Latinos have long influenced everything from electoral politics to popular culture‚ yet many people instinctively reg...

08/04/2020

JUDGE SALAS
The Salas family continues to ask for our prayers and well wishes. Judge Salas has now issued a video statement, which you can access here.

The courthouse has also set up a special mail and email address where you can send any note of condolence, prayer, and concern. You can also share the addresses with anyone. The notes and emails will be provided to Judge Salas whenever she is ready to read them.

Email: [email protected]

Mail
U.S. District Court
Attn: Judge Salas Condolences
P.O. Box 1900
Newark, NJ 07101

07/31/2020

So pleased to contribute to the Yale Journal of Regulation's Notice & Comment Symposium on Racism in Administrative Law

Some doctrinal courses like property or contracts that involve a “racially-charged history” and “doctrine [that] is inextricably linked to race” lend themselves more readily to the inclusion of issues of race and class. Even so, the inclusion of socioeconomic issues in traditional doctrinal ...

07/31/2020

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Basics of the FAR Form - Wednesday, August 5, 3:00 pm
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Faculty Development Workshop
The Basics of the FAR Form

Hello All,

We write to invite you the first of two LatCrit, Inc./SALT Faculty Development Workshop (FDW) sessions focused on supporting candidates on or thinking about going on the market. Our first session will take place next Wednesday, August 5 at 3:00 p.m. EST. It will focus on “The Basics of the FAR Form.” Panelists will also touch on submitting applications directly (i.e. applying outside of the FAR process). Presenters include:

* Michael Higdon, The University of Tennessee College of Law;
* Catherine Smith, University of Denver Sturm College of Law;
* Sheila Vélez Martínez, University of Pittsburgh School of Law; and
* Sherley Cruz, The University of Tennessee College of Law.

To register, please visit https://msu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0qcuutrTMvHNOvjS_-627-5SEJdRgLdrZ1.

Please keep an eye out for information on a second FDW session on “Committee Interviews and Callbacks” that will be held in early October.

Yours,
LatCrit, Inc./SALT Faculty Development Workshop Committee
Kyle Velte (Kansas), Ron Hochbaum (UDC), Sherley Cruz (Tennessee), and Tania Valdez (Denver)

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: SALT/LatCrit Faculty Development Workshop Session: The Basics of the FAR Form. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.