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<\/h2>\nWelcome to the 2<\/b>nd<\/b> Annual Critical Race Theory Conference at Harvard Law!<\/b><\/p>\n
The theme for this year\u2019s conference is <\/span>Freedom Dreaming for a Radical Reconstruction<\/i><\/b>. We carefully chose Abolition Democracy as the guiding academic principle for this conference, as its framework invites us to critique existing systems while preserving space to imagine and plan for the future.<\/span><\/p>\n After years of demands, HLS has finally hired a single CRT scholar to the faculty for the fall of 2021, Prof. Guy-Uriel Charles, incoming faculty director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice.\u00a0 During this year\u2019s conference, Prof. Charles will help us examine the past and dream the future of CRT.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The CRT conference was born out of the recognition of a void in legal education at Harvard Law School. This institution has among its alumni and former professors the founding figures of the school of legal thought known as Critical Race Theory. This body of legal thought has a theoretical framework that examines and seeks to transform the relationship between the intersections of identities (such as race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and national origin) and state power, violence, and subordination. Accordingly, CRT rejects the traditional civil rights incrementalist approaches and questions theories of \u201ccolor-blindness,\u201d liberalism, and neutral principles of constitutional law.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n CRT has three core tenets. First, racism and other forms of subordination are deeply embedded in the legal system and in the ordinary functions of our society, aka \u201cthe system isn\u2019t broken, it\u2019s working as designed.\u201d Second, both elite and working-class white people accrue benefits from this system and thus are often induced into maintaining it. This tenet is known as interest-convergence theory and can be understood as \u201crace for profit.\u201d Third, racism and other forms of subordination are socio-political and economic constructs used to oppress minority groups in order to preserve white supremacy, aka there is no biological basis for race.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Conference Schedule<\/b><\/p>\n The schedule of events is below, and will be updated as we finalize with a few more speakers.\u00a0 Full event descriptions and updates will be posted to our website: <\/span>https:\/\/orgs.law.harvard.edu\/thebellcollective\/<\/span><\/a>. More updates on zoom links and food vouchers soon.<\/span><\/p>\n