Rights and Wrongs: A Constitution Day Conference at San Francisco State University

Moderator: Daniel Bernardi (SF State School of Cinema)

• M. Ernita Joaquin (SF State Public Administration Program): “A Hole in the Constitution: The Right and the Wrongs of a Deconstructed Administrative State”
• Sheldon Gen (SF State Public Administration Program): “‘So I Swore to Uphold the Constitution--Now What?’: Public Service Careers in a Meaningful Life”
• Jennifer Shea (SF State Public Administration Program): “Navigating Essentially Contested Constitutional Values: A Role for Nonprofit Professionals?”

Moderator: Sue Englander (SF State History Department)

• Steve Harris (SF State History Department): Changing the Constitution: A Proposal to Start Anew
• Commentator: Nicholas D. Conway (SF State Political Science Department)
• Commentator: Rebecca M. Eissler (SF State Political Science Department)

Moderator: Amanda Michelle Roberti (SF State Political Science Department)

• Mark Leinauer (SF State Political Science Department): “What Remains after Dobbs? How Some Small Victories for Abortion Access Are Still Possible”
• Kurt Nutting (SF State Philosophy Department): “The Supreme Court’s Use of ‘Originalist’ Theories of Constitutional Interpretation in Dobbs”

Moderator: James Martel (SF State Political Science Department)

• Persis Karim (SF State Comparative and World Literature Department): “Inside, Outside, and All Around: Political Trends that Undermine Academic Freedom”
• Jeff Greensite (SF State Physics and Astronomy Department): “On the Right to Tell People What They Do Not Want to Hear”
• Maziar Behrooz (SF State History Department): “Academic Freedom: The Controversy over the Imaginary Portrait of Prophet Muhammad”

Welcome: Dean Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo, College of Liberal & Creative Arts

Biography: Moran is Professor of Law at Texas A&M University School of Law.  Prior to that, she was Distinguished and Chancellor’s Professor of Law at UC Irvine School of Law, Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law and Dean Emerita at UCLA Law, and the Robert D. and Leslie-Kay Raven Professor of Law at Berkeley Law. She helped to found the law school at UC Irvine in 2008. Moran has written over 100 articles and chapters exploring bilingual education, desegregation, affirmative action, and other topics. She is the author of Interracial Intimacy: The Regulation of Race and Romance (U. Chicago Press, 2001), co-editor of Race Law Stories (Foundation, 2008), and co-author of Educational Policy and the Law (Cengage, 2011). As the inaugural Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law at the American Bar Foundation (ABF), she helped launch an initiative on "The Future of Latinos in the United States: Law, Opportunity, and Mobility." Moran is a member of the American Law Institute and the ABF, a member of the Board of Trustees for the Law and Society Association, and Past President of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS).

Moderator: Marc Stein, SF State History Department

Welcome: Gregg Castro, t'rowt'raahl Salinan/rumsen & ramaytush Ohlone, Association of Ramaytush Ohlone Culture Director

Biography: Carpenter is the Council Tree Professor of Law and Director of the American Indian Law Program at the University of Colorado Law School. She served as chair and member of the United Nations Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (EMRIP) from 2017 to 2021. With colleagues at the Native American Rights Fund, Carpenter is now co-director of The Implementation Project, which advances the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples through education and advocacy. She also serves as a Justice of the Shawnee Tribe Supreme Court. The author of many academic articles and several books, she coedited The Indian Civil Rights Act at Forty (UCLA American Indian Studies Center, 2012); coedited Cohen’s Handbook of Federal Indian Law (Lexis, 2015 and 2017); and coauthored Cases and Materials on Federal Indian Law (West, 2017). Carpenter has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and is an elected member of the American Law Institute. She is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School.

Moderator: Marc Stein, SF State History Department

Moderator: Tanya Hollis (SF State Labor Archives and Research Center)

• Robert Cherny (SF State History Department, Emeritus), “San Francisco Communists v. the Supreme Court”

This session is cosponsored by the Labor Archives and Research Center.

Moderator: Amy Sueyoshi (SF State Provost)

• Marc Stein (SF State History Department): “Cruel and Unusual Punishment for a Trans Sex Worker: Perkins v. North Carolina (1964)”
• Clare Sears: (SF State Sociology and Sexuality Studies Department): “Dress and Defiance: From Nineteenth Century Cross-Dressing Laws to Twenty-First Century Drag Show Bans”
• A. Ikaika Gleisberg: (SF State Sociology and Sexuality Studies Department): “Unsettling Trans Militarism: A Trans of Color Abolitionist Critique on the Limits of Inclusion”

Moderator: Robert Keith Collins (SF State American Indian Studies Department)

• Mario X. Burrus (University of California, Berkeley, History Department): “‘One Eighth African Blood’: From Plessy to Loving and the Legal Fallacies of Jim Crow Logic”
• Margot Lipin (University of California, Berkeley, Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program): “‘Bloody Phrases’: White Supremacy, Violence, and Liberalism in U.S. v. Cruikshank (1876)”
• Tara Madhav (University of California, Berkeley, History Department): “Criticisms of the Private/Public Distinction in Black Radical Thought”

Moderator: Marc Stein (SF State History Department)

• Radhika Rao (University of California College of Law, San Francisco): “America’s Abortion Theocracy”