Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law of the Boston Bar Association
     Summer 1988

• Initiated Latino Outreach for the Project to Combat Racial Violence.

Bingham, Dana & Gould, Boston, Mass.
     Summer 1987

• Extensive legal research and writing in the areas of product liability, First Amendment, Massachusetts' Campaign Finance and Fair Employment laws and the Federal Foreign Agents Registration Act.
• Client representation in Lemon law arbitration.

University of Miami School of Law,
     Summer 1986

• Summer Honors Program of the Florida Bar Association to explore legal problems of the elderly.

SPECIAL RECOGNITIONS AND AWARDS

Anna Hirsch Lecturer, New England School of Law, 2001-2002

Dean Thomas Lecturer, Yale Law School, 1999-2000

Most-Outstanding Faculty Award April, 1998

Presented by the University of Miami School of Law Public Interest Law Group
in recognition of outstanding dedication to work in the public interest

Women Who Make a Difference Award, February, 1998

Presented by Miami Law Women

Award in Appreciation for Outstanding Service, Loyalty and Guidance, April, 1996

Presented by Association of Latin American Law Students, Rutgers School of Law-Newark

LAW SCHOOL TEACHING

PUBLICATIONS AND OTHER SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES

Publications

• Preface, LatCrit at Five: Institutionalizing a Post-Subordination Future, 78 Denver University Law Review (forthcoming 2001) (with Francisco Valdes)
• LatCrit Theory:  Notes Towards a Transatlantic Dialogue, Universidad de Malaga Press (2000);  9 U. Miami Int.'l & Comp.L. Rev. 1-32(2000-01)
• Introduction to Symposium:  Expanding Directions, Exploding Parameters:Culture and Nation in LatCrit Coalitional Imagination, 33 U. Michigan J. Law Reform 203-31;  5 U. Mich J. Race & Law 203-31  (2000)(with Francisco Valdes)
• Global Markets, Racial Spaces and the Role of Critical Race Theory in the Struggle for Community Control of Investment: An Institutional Class Analysis, 45 Villanova L. Rev.  1037-1073 (2000)
• Institutionalizing Economic Justice: A LatCrit Perspective on the Imperatives of Linking the Reconstruction of "Community " to the Transformation of Legal Structures that Institutionalize the Depoliticization and Fragmentation of Labor/Community Solidarity, 2 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Labor and Employment Law 755-88 (2000)
• Foreword: Democracy, Identity, Communicative Power, Inter/National LaborRights and the Evolution of LatCrit Theory and Community, 53 University of Miami Law Review 575-682 (1999)
• Out of the Shadow: Marking Intersections In/Between Emerging Asian Critical Legal Scholarship and LatCrit Theory, 40 Boston College Law Review 349-83;19 Boston College Third World Law Review 349-83 (1998)
• Afterword: Religion, Gender, Sexuality, Race and Class in Coalitional Theory: A Critical and Self-Critical Analysis of LatCrit Social Justice Agendas, 19 U.C.L.A. Chicano-Latino Law Review 503-88 (1998) (with Francisco Valdes)
• The Inter-Subjectivity of Objective Justice: A Theory and Praxis for Constructing LatCrit Coalitions, 2 Harvard Latino Law Review 467 (1997)
• Foreword: International Law, Human Rights and LatCrit Theory, 28 U. Miami Inter-American Law Review 177-213 (1996-97)
• International Economic Law and Human Rights Enforcement: Locating Latinas/os in the Linkage Debate, 28 U. Miami Inter-American Law Review 361-86(1996-97)
• Rape, Race and Representation: The Power of Discourse, Discourses of Power and the Reconstruction of Heterosexuality, 49 Vanderbilt Law Review 869-991 (1996) reprinted in part as Maternal Power and the Deconstruction of Male Supremacy, in THE LATINO CONDITION: A CRITICAL READER, (eds. Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, N.Y.U. Press 1997) excerpted and reprinted in part in WOMEN AND THE LAW, 2d edition, University Casebook Series, (Judith G. Greenberg, Martha L. Minow & Dorothy E.Roberts, eds. 1998)
• Structures of Subordination: Women of Color at the Intersection of Title VII and the NLRA. Not!, 28 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties LawReview 395-503 (1993) reprinted in part in CRITICAL RACE FEMINISM:A LEGAL READER (ed. Adrien K. Wing, NYU Press 1996)
• Designing the Institutional and Legal Structure of Prosecutorial Powerin the Transition to Democracy, in THE TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY IN LATINAMERICA: THE ROLE OF THE JUDICIARY, pp. 269-283 (I. Stotzky ed. 1993)
• La Transformación Económica y El Movimiento Obrero Estadounidense,El Otro Derecho, vol. 4., no. 2, pp. 5-29 (Bogota, Colombia 1992)
• Resumen de la Presentacion de los Proyectos de Administracion de Justiciade los Estados Unidos en America Latina, Derecho Penal, Terrorismo y Legislacion (Bogota, 1991)

Works-in Progress

• STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE: LAW, IDENTITY AND POWER (forthcoming)
• Confronting Racial Inequality: LatCrit Reflections on Law, Class andthe Anti-Political Economy (forthcoming)
• Desire and Violence: RaceCrit Feminist and QueerCrit Reflections onthe Substance and Practice of LatCrit Ethics, (with Francisco Valdes)
• The Criminalization of Political Conflict and the Politics of Criminalization:A LatCrit Perspective on the Internationalization of Criminal Law
• Regional Integration, Human Rights and National Sovereignty: A Caribbean Focus

Presentations

• May 2001, LatCrit and Critical Race Feminist Perspectives on Progressive Conceptions of Black Manhood, Black Masculinities: Toward Progressive Conceptions of Black Manhood Workshop, Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy, University at Buffalo
• April 2001, LatCritical Perspectives on Political Economy Moderator-Presenter, "LatCrit VI," University of Florida
• February 2001, Critical Race Theory and Union Discrimination, Joint Conference on the Changing Face of Labor, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley
• January 2001, What is Justice and How Do We Get There?: (Re)Envisioning Litigation as a Tool of Achieving Justice, Association of American Law Schools [AALS] 2001 Annual Meeting, Joint Program of Sections on Clinical Legal Eduction and Litigation,  San Francisco
• November 2000, Race, Social Justice and the Law:  Building Identities, Coalitions and Theory From a LatCrit Perspective, Cleveland Marshall School of Law
• July 2000, LatCrit Theory and the "Coalitional Imagination:"  AfricanAmericans in the Spanish Civil War, Málaga, Spain
• May 2000, Political Economies of Subordination in LatCrit Perspective:"Piercing the Veils" of Class and Identity in Traditional Curricula, Moderator, Opening Plenary, "LatCrit V," Denver, Colorado
• April 2000, Re-imagining Work, Women, Justice, and Authority- A WorkingConference, Yale Law School
• April 2000, LatCrit Theory and International Law: Lessons from a NewMovement, Lecture for American Society of International Law [ASIL],Washington D.C.
• February 2000, Race, Class, Culture & Law: Creating Common Contextsof Struggle Through LatCrit Theory and Praxis , UCLA Symposium, Raceand the Law at the Turn of the Century (with Francisco Valdes)
• February 2000, LatCrit Theory: Its Purposes, Perspectives, HistoricalOrigins and Future Trajectories, Dean Thomas Lecture, Yale Law School
• January 2000,  Re-Examining the Bar Exam, Society of AmericanLaw Teachers, Annual Robert Cover Study Session, Association of AmericanLaw Schools [AALS] Meeting, Washington, DC
• October 1999, Solidarity and Continuity: Individual Empowerment throughCollective Action, AALS Workshop for Women in Legal Education, "GettingUnstuck Without Coming Unglued" Video Conference, Chicago, New York &Washington D.C.
• September 1999, The Multistate Bar Exam Scam: A Closing Commentary andCritique, Re-examining the Bar Exam, SALT Conference, Golden Gate LawSchool, San Francisco
• June 1999, The Purposes, Practices and Possibilities of LatCrit LegalTheory in American Legal Education, The Spanish Legal System and LatCritTheory: A Dialogue, Universidad de Málaga Facultad de Derecho, España
• May 1999, Session Chair and Discussant, Critical Legal Theories Meetthe Caribbean Studies Association. 24 ^th Annual CaribbeanStudies Association Conference, Panama City, Panama
• May 1999, The Meanings and Particularities of Blackness in Latina/o Communities, LatCrit IV, Stanford-Sierra
• April 1999, LatCrit Legal Theory and the Impact of Latinas/os on the Legal Sector, First Annual Latino Symposium: The Impact of Latinosin the United States, sponsored by LALSA, Columbia Law School
• March 1999, Mapping Intersections Between Critical Race Theory and International Law, American Society of International Law Annual Meeting, Washington,DC
• March 1999, Inter/national Intersections Activism and the Law: The Intersection of the Civil Rights and Labor Movements Symposium, U. Penn. Journal of Labor and Employment Law
• March 1999, Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Desire and Violence, Bridging Divides: A Challenge to Unify Anti-Subordination Theories Symposium, Depaul College of Law, Chicago
• January 1999, Global Markets, Racial Spaces: Marking Class Positions Across Fair Housing and Community Reinvestment Strategies, Association of American Law Schools [AALS] 1999 Annual Meeting, Joint Program of Sections on Minority Groups and State and Local Government Law, New Orleans, Louisiana
• January 1999, Race, Space and Ecocide(s): A LatCrit Perspective on the Politics of International Criminalization , AALS 1999 Annual Meeting, Joint Program of Sections on Criminal Justice and Minority Groups, NewOrleans, Louisiana
• January 1999, Session Moderator Affirmative Action, AALS 1999 Annual Meeting Workshop on Work, Workers and Law in the 21^st Century, New Orleans, Louisiana
• November 1998, Ecocide and the Politics of Criminalization: A LatCritPerspective on International Criminal Law , Space, Place and Nation: Reconstructing Neo-liberalism in the Americas, Inaugural Conference ofthe Center for Latin American, Caribbean and Latino Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
• October 1998, Out of the Shadow: Marking Intersections In/Between Emerging Asian Critical Legal Scholarship and LatCrit Theory, The Long Shadow of Korematsu Symposium, 5^th Annual Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty, Boston College Law School
• May 1998, Session Chair and Discussant, Convergence, Fragmentation and Development in the Caribbean, 23rd Annual Caribbean Studies Association Conference, St. John, Antigua
• May 1998, El proceso de globalización en Latinoaméricay el Caribe: Una visión Crítica, Instituto de Altos Estudiosde la Defensa Nacional, República de Venezuela, North-South Center,University of Miami
• May 1998, From Critical Race Theory to LatCrit to BlackCrit?: Exploring Critical Race Theory Beyond and Within the Black-White Paradigm, Moderator, Focus Group Discussion, LatCrit III, Miami, Florida
• February 1998, The Criminalization of Political Conflict and the Politics of Criminalization: A LatCrit Perspective on the Internationalization of Criminal Law, Confronting Race: Strategies and Issues for the Twenty-First Century Symposium, University of Florida School of Law
• February 1998, Segregation vs. Integration: Revisiting the Issue a Generation Later, BALSA, Black History Month, University of Miami School of Law
• January 1998, What Critical Race Theory Can Contribute to Partnership Work: A LatCrit Perspective, AALS 1998 Annual Meeting, AALS and APSA Workshop on New Strategies for Inner Cities: Academics, Professionals and Communities in Partnership, San Francisco
• November 1997, Global Markets, Racial Spaces and the Legal Struggle for Community Control of Investment, Critical Race Theory Conference, Yale Law School
• October 1997, LatCrit Theory and Asian American Legal Scholarship: Exploring Intersections, 4th Annual Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Professors, CUNY Law School
• September 1997, Where Do We Go From Here? Educating Lawyers for Social Justice, Society of American Law Teachers, American University School of Law
• July 1997, Against Rape Culture: Feminist Legal Strategies, Florida International University
• June 1997, Organizing Resistance, Critical Race Theory Workshop, Tulane School of Law
• May 1997, Comparative Law: A LatCrit Perspective , Conference on New Approaches to International Law, Harvard Law School
• May 1997, Latina/o Poverty and the State: Comments on an Economic Tour of San Antonio, "LatCrit II,"San Antonio, Texas
• February 1997, Designing Institutions for Radical Democracy: From Interest Convergence to Social Justice in a Segmented Political Economy, Symposium:Toward a Radical and Plural Democracy, Cal-Western School of Law
• October 1996, Rape, Race and Representation , Feminist Legal Theory Workshop, Yale Law School
• October 1996, International Economic Law and Human Rights Enforcement:Locating Latinas/os in the Linkage Debate, HNBA Law Professors Colloquium, International Law, Human Rights and Lat-Crit Theory, Miami, Florida
• June 1996, Human Rights in International Economic Law: A Caribbean Focus,Integration and National Sovereignty in the Caribbean Conference, sponsored by the Inter-American Institute for Alternative Legal Services, Caracas, Venezuela
• June 1996, working group participant: Trade and Environment in a Post-Colonial Era, International Law, Critique and Social Change Conference, University of Wisconsin School of Law
• February 1996, Teaching International Economic Law From a Race Crit Perspective, The Second Annual Mid-Atlantic People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, Howard Law School, Washington D.C.
• June 1995, Systemic Failures in Poverty Law: A Comment on Feminist Practitioners' Perspectives, Feminism and Legal Theory Workshop, Columbia Law School
• April 1995, What is Feminism? Rutgers Women's Rights Law Reporter Conference, Rutgers Law School-Newark
• April 1995, Rape, Race and Representation, Women, Sexuality, and Violence: Re-visioning Public Policy Conference, University of Pennsylvania
• March 1995, Law as an Instrument of Class Politics and Social Change, prepared for the Conference on Critical Legal Studies, The Politics of Class and the Construction of Identity, Georgetown Law School
• February 1995, Rape, Race and Representation, The First Annual Mid-Atlantic People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, Howard Law School Washington D.C.
• October 1994, Political Pluralism and Public Outrage: Defamation and the Deconstruction of Magda Montiel Davis, Rutgers Student Guild, Rutgers Law School- Newark
• Sept 1994, Psychiatric Institutions and Human Rights, ALALS Conference on Human Rights in Latin America, Rutgers Law School- Newark
• June 1994, The Economic/Political Dichotomy and the Legal Construction of a Race/Gender Segmented Economy, Law & Society Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona
• May 1993, Structures of Subordination, Law & Society Annual Meeting, Chicago, Illinois.
• March 1992, Prosecutorial Discretion , International Conference on the Transition to Democracy in Latin America; University of Miami School of Law.
• July, 1991, The Transformation of International Capitalism and its Implications for American Labor Law, International Seminar sponsored by the Inter-American Institute for Alternative Legal Services, Bogota, Colombia.
• February, 1991, United States Administration of Justice Projects in Latin America, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogota, Colombia.

Unpublished Course Materials

Equality in the Workplace. This is an original coursedevelopment.

The materials provide a comprehensive overview of the relationshipbetween Title VII and the National Labor Relations Act and offer a variety of perspectives from which to examine the intersecting policies, proceduresand substantive obligations of these statutory regimes and to assess the impact of these intersections on the prospects of eliminating race andgender-based subordination in the labor market.

The course uses interdisciplinary materials drawn from political philosophy, political economy and post-modern social theory to developa critical analysis of the ways in which distinctions between "economics" and "politics" are used to resolve legal disputes about the allocation of power. The goal is for students to develop a variety of conceptual resources with which to analyze the relationship between the interpretative strategies used in legal reasoning, the institutional arrangements constructed through legal doctrine and the structures of economic stratification and political mobilization.

The course is organized thematically around proposals to promotethe enforcement of international human rights by reforming the institutional structures, substantive norms and decisional procedures currently regulatedby International Economic Law. The materials focus on the decision-making and dispute resolution mechanisms of the World Trade Organization, the Labor and Environmental Side Accords of the NAFTA, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. The course uses interdisciplinary materials toexplore the impact of these international regimes and proposed reform alternatives from a variety of perspectives including neoclassical macroeconomics, thepolitical economy of development, and world systems theory.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND ACTIVITIES

Memberships and Directorships

• Co-Chair, Latina and Latino Critical Legal Theory, Inc. [LatCrit, Inc.],1998-present
• Board of Governors, Society of American Law Teachers [SALT], 1997-present
• Co-Founder and Co-Director, Center for Hispanic and Caribbean Legal Studies[CHCLS] University of Miami School of Law, 1997-present
• Board of Directors, Inter-American Center for Human Rights, Miami, Florida,1997-99; Advisory Board Member, 1999-present
• Member of the State Bar of Florida (admitted 1999), Massachusetts (1989)and Michigan (1990)

Policy and Legal Advocacy

• April 2000, Florida Supreme Court,  Wrote and Submitted Comments on behalf of the Society of American Law Teachers (SALT) Re: Petition of the Florida Board of Bar Examiners to Amend the Rules of the Supreme Court Relating to Admissions to the Bar (against raising the Bar Pass Score from 131 to 133, and eventually to 136)

Conference Organizing

• Conference Organizer,  "Centering North-South Frameworks in LatCrit Theory: Latinas/os and the Americas," Sixth Annual LatCrit Conference (LatCrit VI), University of Florida Law School, April 2001
• Conference Organizer, "Spain, the Americas, and Latinas/os: International and Comparative Law in Triangular Perspectives," Second Annual LatCrit/Spain Colloquium, Universidad de Málaga, España, July, 2000
• Conference Organizer, "Class in LatCrit: Theory and Praxis in a World of Economic Inequality," Fifth Annual LatCrit Conference (LatCrit V), Denver College of Law, May 2000
• SALT Conference Organizer, "Re-Examining the Bar Exam," Golden Gate University School of Law, Sept. 1999
• Program Committee, "International Law in Ferment: A New Vision for Theory and Practice?," American Society of International Law, Washington, D.C., April, 2000
• Conference Organizer, "The Spanish Legal System and LatCrit Theory: A Dialogue," Universidad de Málaga, España, June 1999
• Conference Organizer, "Rotating Centers, Expanding Frontiers: LatCrit Theory and Marginal Intersections," Fourth Annual LatCrit Conference (LatCrit IV), Stanford-Sierra, May 1999
• Panel Organizer and Chair, "Critical Legal Theories and the Caribbean Studies Association: Exploring the Intersections of Law and Liberation," 24^th Annual Conference of the Caribbean Studies Association, Panama City, Panama, May 1999
• Panel Organizer and Chair, "Mapping Intersections Between Critical Race Theory (CRT) and International Law," American Society of International Law, Washington, D.C., March, 1999
• Conference Organizer, "Comparative Latinas/os: Identity, Law and Policy in LatCrit Theory," Third Annual LatCrit Conference (LatCrit III), Miami, Florida, May 1998
• SALT Conference Organizer, "Affirming Action, Reconstructing Merit: A Conference in Honor of Haywood Burns," co-sponsored with CUNY Law School, New York, April 1997
• Conference Organizer, Second Annual LatCrit Conference, (LatCrit II), San Antonio, Texas, May 1997
• Conference Organizer, "International Law Human Rights and Lat-Crit Theory," Hispanic National Bar Association Law Professors Conference, Miami, Florida, October 1996
• Planning Committee, Second Annual Mid-Atlantic People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, Howard Law School, Washington, DC 1996

COMMUNITY SERVICE AND ACTIVITIES

Appointed Office

• 1998-2000, Commissioner, Miami Dade Commission on Ethics and Public Trust [Ethics Commission]
• 2000-2002,  Reappointed to second term of office.

International Human Rights: Fact Finding Missions and Legal Advocacy

• November 1996, Inter-American Commission of Human Rights, Statement of Amicus Commissae in Support of Petition Challenging Provisions of the Guatemalan Family Code (wrote and submitted Amicus brief on behalf of the Inter-American Center for Human Rights)
• HUMAN RIGHTS & MENTAL HEALTH: URUGUAY, Mental Disability Rights International, Washington, College of Law, American University (1995) pp. 1-59 by Eric Rosenthal, Elizabeth M. Iglesias, Dr. Humberto Martinez, Lenard S. Rubenstein, and Clarance J. Sundram
• December 1993, participated in a human rights fact-finding mission to report on conditions and standards for commitment to psychiatric institutions in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Community Education Programs

• February 2001, International Perspectives on the Struggle Against Corruption: Latin America, Conference on Achieving Accountability, Controlling Corruption 2001, Florida International University
• October 2000, United States Department of State Speakers Award to Conduct Project on Ethics, Anti-Corruption Strategies and Institutional Reforms in Managua, Nicaragua
• May 1999, Chair, Ethics Commission Public Education Committee; Developed Study Circle Program
  entitled Ethics in Government: Citizen Access and Political Accountability: A Community Dialogue
  for Commission's Inaugural Town Hall Meeting, University of Miami Gusman Hall
• October 1997, Organized and Coordinated Kick-Off Program for The Greater Miami Study Circles Project on Race, Ethnicity and Immigration,University of Miami Gusman Hall.
• Summer 1997, Writing Committee Director for the Many Voices: One Community Coalition, drafted
  Race, Ethnicity and Immigration: Constructing Community Through Dialogue, A Study Circle Guide
• February, 1996, participated in panel discussion entitled Fathers In Prison: Maintaining the Family through Law, Art and the Community, a free community program held at the Newark Museum in honor of Project 5: Pepon Osorio - Badge of Honor, an artistic multi-media exhibit addressing the impact of incarcerated fathers on the family.

LAW SCHOOL RELATED SERVICE AND ACTIVITIES

• 1996-1998, Faculty Advisor to the Multicultural Inter-Group Law Student Caucus
• 1997-present,  Faculty Advisor, Phi Delta Phi, University of Miami School of Law
• On-Site Director and Teaching Faculty Member of the University of Miami School of Law,   Tour de Espaņa Program in Malaga, Spain, Summer 1998, 1999, 2000
• Fall 1995, Taught Constitutional Law in the Minority Student Program Orientation, Rutgers School of Law-Newark.
• 1994-96, Faculty Advisor to the Association of Latin American Law Students and the Women's Rights Law Reporter, Rutgers School of Law-Newark
• 1992-94, Faculty Advisor to the Labor and Employment Law Society of the University of Miami School of Law
• 1991-92, Faculty Advisor to Committee for International Human Rights

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