Critical Race Theory: The Next Frontier Friday, March 19, 2004 Moot Court Room PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS SYMPOSIUM CHAIR Dorothy A. Brown Professor, Washington and Lee University School of Law Professor Brown is a graduate of Fordham University, with a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center and a masters of law in Taxation from New York University. She clerked with Judge Swift at the United States Tax Court in Washington, D.C. and then practiced tax and securities law before working on Wall Street as an investment banker. In 1991 she began her career in law teaching at George Mason University School of Law. Her scholarly interests focus on applying critical race theory to federal tax policy. Professor Brown is the author of CRITICAL RACE THEORY: CASES, MATERIALS AND PROBLEMS (West 2003). Her recent articles include Social Security and Marriage in Black and White, OHIO ST. L. J. (Forthcoming 2004); Social Security Reform: Risks, Returns, and Race, CORNELL J. LAW & PUB. POL'Y (2000); and Race, Class, and Gender Essentialism in Tax Literature: The Joint Return, WASH. & LEE L. REV. (1997). Her work has been mentioned in the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Times. KEYNOTE SPEAKER David B. Wilkins Kirkland & Ellis Professor, and Director, Program on the Legal Profession Harvard University Law School Professor Wilkins is a graduate of Harvard College (1977) and Harvard Law School (1980), and was law clerk to Judge Wilfred Feinberg of the United States Court of Appeals (1981) and Justice Thurgood Marshall of the Supreme Court (1982). From 1982 to 1986, he was an associate in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Nussbaum Owen & Webster. Since joining the Harvard faculty in 1986, Professor Wilkins has written extensively on the legal profession, with a particular emphasis on the experiences of black lawyers in corporate law firms. His scholarship on this issue includes: The Black Bar: The Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education and the Future of Race and the American Legal Profession (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2004); Why Global Law Firms Should Care about Diversity: Five Lessons from the American Experience, EUR. J. LAW REFORM (2000); Beyond 'Bleached out' Professionalism: Defining Professional Responsibility for Real Professionals, in Ethics in Practice: Lawyers' Roles, Responsibilities, and Regulation (2000); Rollin' on the River: Race, Elite Schools, and the Equality Paradox, LAW & SOCIAL INQUIRY (2000); Partners Without Power? A Preliminary Look at Black Partners in Corporate Law Firms, J. OF THE INST. FOR THE STUDY OF LEGAL ETHICS (1999); and Why Are There So Few Black Lawyers in Corporate Law Firms? An Institutional Analysis, CAL. L. REV. (1966). Karen B. Brown Donald Phillip Rothschild Research Professor, George Washington University Law School Professor Brown teaches courses in federal income taxation, corporate taxation, and international taxation. Prior to joining the George Washington faculty, she was Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at the University of Minnesota and Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School. Professor Brown is a member of the International Fiscal Association and the American Law Institute and serves on a number of ABA and AALS committees. She co-authored an international tax transactions treatise, served as coeditor of a collection of essays on income tax reform, and authored two BNA federal income taxation portfolios on attribution rules and innocent spouse provisions. In addition, Professor Brown has written numerous law review articles on federal income, corporate and international taxation issues. Devon W. Carbado Professor, University of California at Los Angeles School of Law Professor Carbado teaches constitutional criminal procedure, constitutional law, critical race theory, and criminal adjudication. He was elected Professor of the Year by the UCLA School of Law Class of 2000, and is the 2003 recipient of the Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching. Professor Carbado writes in the areas of critical race theory, employment discrimination, criminal procedure, constitutional law, and identity, and is currently studying African-American responses to the internment of Japanese Americans. He is the Director of the Critical Race Studies Concentration at the Law School and a faculty associate of the Center for African-American Studies. Maureen B. Cavanaugh Associate Professor, Washington and Lee University School of Law Professor Cavanaugh received her B.A. with distinction in Latin from Swarthmore College, M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Classics from Cornell University, and her J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Minnesota. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Order of the Coif. Her scholarship uses classical studies to aid statutory interpretation and help understand issues of tax policy. Among her recent articles combining the ancient and modern world are Democracy, Equality, and Taxes, 54 ALA. L. REV. 415 (2003), and Order in Multiplicity: Aristotle on Text, Context, and the Rule of Law, 79 N.C. L. REV. 577 (2001). Articles considering the economic consequence of tax policy include On the Road to Incoherence: Congress, Economics, and Taxes, 49 UCLA L. REV. 685 (2002) that also appears in TAX DIGEST (May, 2003) and Tax as Gatekeeper: Why Company Stock is Not Worth the Money, VA. TAX REV. (Fall 2003). A. Mechele Dickerson Professor, College of William and Mary, Marshall-Wythe School of Law A graduate of Harvard-Radcliffe and Harvard Law School, Professor Dickerson teaches creditors’ rights and consumer bankruptcy, business bankruptcy, federal civil procedure, and critical race theory. She has taught seminars on transnational insolvencies and bankruptcy fraud and writes primarily in the consumer bankruptcy area. Professor Dickerson is on the editorial board of the American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review and is a member of the American Law Institute. Mary Louise Fellows Everett Fraser Professor, University of Minnesota Law School Professor Fellows is a nationally recognized scholar in the areas of trusts and estates, federal tax law, and feminist jurisprudence. After graduating from the University of Michigan Law School in 1975, she joined the law faculty at the University of Illinois. In 1982 she became a law professor at the University of Iowa until 1990 when she moved to Minnesota. Her publications on federal taxation consist of a co-edited anthology TAXING AMERICA (New York University Press), along with a number of articles, including A Comprehensive Attack on Tax Deferral, 88 MICH. L. REV. 722 and Valuing Close Corporations for Federal Wealth Transfer Taxes: A Statutory Solution to the Disappearing Wealth Syndrome, 30 STAN. L. REV. 895. As well as teaching courses on wills and trusts and estate planning at the University of Minnesota, Professor Fellows is pursuing a Ph.D. in Anglo- Saxon and Medieval literature at the University of Minnesota. Mitu Gulati Professor, Georgetown University Law Center Prior to teaching at Georgetown, Professor Gulati was a member of the faculty at the UCLA School of Law. He teaches Business Associations and Securities Regulation. His current research project focuses on the relationship between racial politics and corporate interests and how that relationship may have shaped both racial and corporate identity. Professor Gulati has published numerous articles which have appeared in the California Law Review, the Cornell Law Review, the George Washington Law Review, the Iowa Law Review, the UCLA Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal. Donald C. Langevoort Thomas Aquinas Reynolds Professor, Georgetown University Law Center Professor Langevoort joined the Georgetown faculty in 1999 after eighteen years at Vanderbilt University School of Law, where he had been the Lee S. & Charles A. Speir Professor of Law. He has also been a visiting professor at the University of Michigan and Harvard Law School. Professor Langevoort graduated from the Harvard Law School in 1976, and immediately went into private practice with the law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering in Washington. In 1978, he joined the staff of the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission as Special Counsel in the Office of the General Counsel. Since entering academia in 1981, Professor Langevoort has written a treatise on insider trading, coauthored a casebook on securities regulation, and produced numerous law review articles on topics such as insider trading, the impact of technology on securities regulation, investor behavior and the intersection between cognitive psychology and lawyers’ professional responsibilities. He has also served on the Legal Advisory Committee of the New York Stock Exchange and the Legal Advisory Board of the National Association of Securities Dealers, and has testified several times before Congressional committees on matters relating to securities regulation and litigation. More recently, he was a member of the SEC’s Advisory Committee on Market Information, chairing its subcommittee on alternative models for data consolidation. Professor Langevoort is a member of the American Law Institute. Rachel F. Moran Robert D. and Leslie Kay Raven Professor, University of California at Berkeley School of Law Professor Moran received her A.B. in Psychology with Honors and with Distinction from Stanford University where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa her junior year. She obtained her J.D. from Yale Law School where she was an Editor of the Yale Law Journal, Runner-up in the Harlan Fiske Stone Moot Court Prize Competition, and Teaching Assistant to the Associate Dean. Professor Moran currently teaches torts, education and the law, and a seminar on cities, stratification, and separation. From 1993-96, she served as Chair of the Chicano/Latino Policy Project at the Institute for the Study of Social Change. In 1995, she received a Distinguished Teaching Award from the Berkeley campus. She has published and lectured extensively in the areas of affirmative action, desegregation, and bilingual education. Professor Moran is the author of INTERRACIAL INTIMACY (University of Chicago Press 2001) and co-author of the fourth edition of EDUCATIONAL POLICY AND THE LAW (2002)(with Mark G. Yudof, David L. Kirp, and Betsy Levin). Her recent articles include Race, Representation, and Remembering, 49 UCLA L. REV. 1513 (2002); Law and Emotion, Love and Hate, 11 J. CONTEMP. LEGAL ISSUES 747 (2001); Diversity and Its Discontents: The End of Affirmative Action at Boalt Hall, 88 CAL. L. REV. 2241 (2000); Sorting and Reforming: High Stakes Testing in the Public Schools, 34 AKRON L. REV.107 (2000); and Bilingual Education, Immigration, and the Culture of Disinvestment, 2 IOWA J. GENDER, RACE, & JUST. 163 (1999). She has been a Visiting Professor at UCLA School of Law, Stanford Law School, New York University School of Law, the University of Miami School of Law, and the University of Texas Law School. Steven A. Ramirez Professor, Washburn University School of Law, and Director, Washburn Business and Transactional Law Center Since entering legal academia in 1995, Professor Ramirez has written widely on business and financial regulation from a macroeconomic perspective. He has focused particularly on the use of cultural diversity to enhance the functioning of Corporate America, while at the same time achieving a greater social justice. Most recently, he has studied and written about the macroeconomic effects of America’s continuing racial hierarchy and what legal educators can do about it; the business benefits of enhanced diversity on corporate boards; and lessons to be gleaned from the recent string of corporate scandals, from the perspective of race, diversity and macroeconomics. Prior to entering academia, Professor Ramirez specialized in corporate, securities and banking litigation in Chicago, where he worked as an Enforcement Attorney with the SEC and as a Senior Attorney with the FDIC. David A. Skeel, Jr. Professor, University of Pennsylvania Law School Professor Skeel is an expert on corporate and bankruptcy law. He is the author of DEBT’S DOMINION: A HISTORY OF BANKRUPTCY LAW IN AMERICA (Princeton University Press, 2001). His recent articles include Creditors’ Ball: The ‘New’ New Corporate Governance in Chapter 11, U. PA L. REV. (forthcoming, 2003); Inside the Black Box: How Should a Sovereign Bankruptcy Framework be Structured (unpublished manuscript, 2003) (with Patrick Bolton); Shaming in Corporate Law, 149 U. PA. L. REV. 1811(2001); and Vern Countryman and the Path of Progressive (and Populist) Bankruptcy Scholarship, 113 HARV. L. REV. 1075 (2000). Professor Skeel has also written commentaries on bankruptcy, the recent corporate scandals and related issues for the New York Times, Financial Times, Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, and other publications; he has appeared on Nightline, Chris Matthews’ Hardball, CNBC, CNN Book TV, Marketplace, NPR and elsewhere; and he has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, U.S. News & World Report, Forbes, The Village Voice, The American Prospect, The Weekly Standard and many other newspapers and magazines. Cheryl L. Wade Dean Harold F. McNiece Professor, St. John’s University School of Law Professor Wade was awarded a Juris Doctorate with distinction from the Hofstra University School of Law where she was a member of the Law Review. She was a Visiting Professor at Washington and Lee University School of Law in the fall of 2003. Prior to joining the faculty at St. John’s Law School, Professor Wade served on the faculty at Hofstra Law School. While at Hofstra, Professor Wade was chosen to serve as an associate for The Merrill Lynch Center for the Study of International Financial Services and Markets. She teaches law and race, business organizations, corporate governance and accountability, torts, and close business arrangements. Professor Wade has written law review articles and a book chapter on securities, corporate, and education law. Professor Wade is a frequent speaker and panelist at various university conferences and workshops on issues of corporate and civil rights law. She was chosen among several applicants to participate in the Corporate Citizens in Corporate Cultures: Restructuring and Reform workshop sponsored by the Feminism and Legal Theory Project at Cornell Law School. Professor Wade delivered the keynote address at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law Symposium on Shareholders in January, 2003. Before joining the Hofstra faculty, she was an associate in the corporate department of the New York City law firm, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. Elizabeth Warren Leo E. Gottlieb Professor, Harvard University Law School Professor Warren specializes in bankruptcy and commercial law. She received her B.S. from the University of Houston and her J.D. from Rutgers Law School. She was the Senior Adviser to the National Bankruptcy Review Commission, and she is currently Vice- President of the American Law Institute and on the Executive Committee of the National Bankruptcy Conference. The National Law Journal named her one of the Fifty Most Influential Women Attorneys in America. She has published several books on bankruptcy and commercial law. Her latest book, THE TWO-INCOME TRAP: WHY MIDDLE CLASS MOTHERS AND FATHERS ARE GOING BROKE, is based in part on a study of nearly 2,000 bankrupt families.