Remembering Michael Olivas and Our Tasks Ahead
Over fifty of the country's leading scholars and law deans are gathering via Zoom this Thursday and Friday s to honor Professor Michael Olivas and to pass the baton to new leaders in our profession. In addition to saluting the creator of the Dirty Dozen List and the Dean of all Latina and Latino Law Professors, we will have a dozen young scholars, members of the Olivas Faculty Recruitment Initiative, presenting their works in progress.
Moreover, I would argue the FIU COL and the Houston Law Center has gathered the greatest collection of scholars since the creation of CRT at the University of Wisconsin in 1988. The leading lights presenting include, LSAC President Kellye Testy, Seattle's Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, Yale's Gerald Torres, UC Davis's Jack Chin, UC Irvine's Rachell Moran, UC Davis's Kevin Johnson, Houston's Sandra Thompson, UF's Bert Hernandez, Penn St.'s Shoba Wadhia, Loyola's Juan Perea, and a host of others.
I hope you will join us, and if you know of any aspiring law professors of any background, have them reach out to me. I may add them to the event, and will unquestionably work with them as part of the Olivas Faculty Recruitment Initiative. The Olivas FRI has placed brilliant young scholars with law schools around the country and as the list of 12 young presenters will attest, we are set to place many more---of any background or political stripe.
The PDF below includes the links to the registration materials and the agenda of this important event: https://law.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/07/First-Annual-Michael-A.-Olivas-Writing-Institute-July-21-22-2022-Final-v3.pdf
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