Hot Topics in Civil Rights Issues
Date: Oct 18, 2023 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
Location: New Jersey Law Center, New Brunswick
Member Price: $25
Non-Member Price: $25
Areas of Law: Diversity, For All Attorneys
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The NJSBA and APALA-NJ Present: Hot Topics in Civil Rights Issues
$25 registration fee includes light dinner, beer and wine
Speakers:
- Michael Campion, Chief of the Civil Rights Division, United States Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey
- Ronald K. Chen, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, University Professor, Distinguished Professor of Law, and Judge Leonard I. Garth Scholar, Rutgers University
- Sundeep Iyer, Director, New Jersey Division on Civil Rights
- Jeanne LoCicero, Legal Director, American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey
- Moderator: Leonard V. Jones, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
What are some of the most pressing topics in civil rights currently confronting the Garden State? Leaders in New Jersey civil rights advocacy weigh in with this rich discussion that will cover subjects making headlines as well as the issues that may not yet have entered the public discourse. Topics to be discussed include voting rights, hate crimes and bias incidents, the rise of white supremacy groups in the state, redlining, sexual harassment, forced labor, challenges to public school curriculum/policy, school segregation and the intersection of technology and civil rights. Attendees will learn more about enforcement and initiatives to combat civil rights violations from the state and federal government as well as the legal debates and arguments that activists and scholars are utilizing and encountering.
This joint bar program will include the CLE program as well as networking opportunities with affinity bars and a light dinner.
Cosponsors: Association of Black Women Lawyers of New Jersey, Garden State Bar Association, Hispanic Bar Association of New Jersey, South Asian Bar Association of New Jersey, New Jersey Muslim Lawyers Association, New Jersey Women Lawyers Association, NJSBA Minorities in the Profession Section, NJSBA Women in the Profession Section, NJSBA LGBTQ Rights Section, the NJSBA Young Lawyers Division, the NJSBA Individual Rights Section.
| NJ CLE: | NJ CLE information: This program has been approved by the Board on Continuing Legal Education of the Supreme Court of New Jersey for 1.5 hours of total CLE credit (Full Credits Available: NJ General: 1.5). |
| NY CLE (t&nt): | NY Professional Practice Non-Transitional: 1.5 |
| PA CLE: | PA Substantive Credit: 1.0
$4.00 fee – separate check payable to NJICLE must be submitted at the end of the program |