A Dream Deferred, Never to Come, or Misbegotten?

The Berkeley Law Raza Law Journal is proud to host: “A DREAM Deferred, Never to Come, or Misbegotten?: Assessing the DREAMer Paradigm in 2023” on Friday, February 3, 2023. This inaugural symposium is free and open to all members of the community.

What: A DREAM Deferred, Never to Come, or Misbegotten?: Assessing the DREAMer Paradigm in 2023

When: February 3, 2023

Where: The Warren Room, Berkeley Law School, 215 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94720

A symposium in memory of Michael A. Olivas (1951-2022), who dedicated much of his life to DREAMer advocacy and to the ensuring increased Latinx representation in the legal academy.

Children brought to the United States alongside their undocumented parents—DREAMers—have played an outsized role in immigrants’ rights activism in the United States over the last two decades. This symposium seeks to evaluate the DREAMer movement and its legal reception from inception to the present, as well as to sketch out possibilities for DREAMers’ future.

The half-day symposium program will consist of two consecutive panels of racially diverse scholars from law schools, as well as university departments of sociology, Latinx studies, leadership studies, and education. The goal of the symposium is to bring into conversation speakers’ diverse perspectives and research agendas, to build a new foundation for study and advocacy on behalf of DREAMers.

Panel Participants include:

• Kathryn Abrams, Herma Hill Kay Distinguished Professor of Law, UC Berkeley Law School
• Leisy J. Abrego, Professor of Chicana/o and Central American Studies, UCLA
• Daniel I. Morales, Associate Professor of Law, George A. Butler Research Professor, University of Houston Law Center
• Rachel Moran, Distinguished Professor of Law, UCI Law
• Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales, Associate Professor of Leadership Studies, University of San Francisco
• Mariela Olivares, Professor of Law and Director of Family Law Certificate Program, Howard University School of Law
• Bill Ong Hing, Professor of Law, Director of the Immigration and Deportation Defense Clinic, and Dean’s Circle Scholar
• Maritza Reyes, Professor of Law FAMU University College of Law
  

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