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'To Empower And Amplify Lgbtq+ Voices' 09-16-2022, Michelle Choate
'To Empower And Amplify Lgbtq+ Voices' 09-16-2022, Michelle Choate
Life of the Law School (1993- )
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18th Annual Diversity Symposium Dinner, Roger Williams University School Of Law
18th Annual Diversity Symposium Dinner, Roger Williams University School Of Law
School of Law Conferences, Lectures & Events
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Who’S Afraid Of Bob Jones?: 'Fundamental National Public Policy' And Critical Race Theory In A Delicate Democracy, Lynn D. Lu
Publications and Research
In Summer of 2021, Republican legislators across the United States introduced a host of bills to prohibit government funding for schools or agencies that teach critical race theory (“CRT”), described by the American Association of Law Schools not as a single doctrine but a set of “frameworks” to “explain and illustrate how structural racism produces racial inequity within our social, economic, political, legal, and educational systems[,] even absent individual racist intent.” Characterizing such an explicitly race-conscious analysis of legal and social institutions as “divisive,” opponents of CRT, such as former Vice President Mike Pence, labeled it “nothing short of state-sponsored …
Changemakers: To Empower And Amplify Lgbtq+ Voices, Michelle Choate
Changemakers: To Empower And Amplify Lgbtq+ Voices, Michelle Choate
Life of the Law School (1993- )
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Identity By Committee, Scott Skinner-Thompson
Identity By Committee, Scott Skinner-Thompson
Publications
Even in school districts with relatively permissive approaches to defining and embodying gender, the identities of transgender and gender variant students are often governed by complex regulatory protocols. Ensuring that a student is able to live their gender at school can involve input from a host of purported stakeholders including medical providers, mental health professionals, school administrators, the student’s parents, and even the broader community. In essence, trans and gender variant students’ identities are governed by committee, which reduces students’ control over their lives, inhibits self-determination, constricts the scope of permissible gender identities, subjects them to incredible degrees of state …