Integrating Doctrine & Diversity Speaker Series: Auditing Your Syllabus and Classroom Materials

This event is co-sponsored by Roger Williams University School of Law, City University of New York School of Law, and JURIST.

3:00 - 4:00 PM EST - Zoom Webinar

In the final installment of the yearlong Integrating Doctrine & Diversity Speaker Series, we will reexamine our syllabi and reconsider our assigned readings to learn how to further invite conversations about diversity, inclusion, equity, and social justice into the classroom. Hear helpful strategies and advice from law professors who are innovating in large and small ways with engaging teaching techniques and practices.

Drawing upon the experience of faculty from across the country, Integrating Doctrine and Diversity is a collection of essays with practical advice, written by faculty for faculty, on specific ways to integrate diversity, equity and inclusion into the law school curriculum. Chapters will focus on subjects traditionally taught in the first-year curriculum (Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Legal Writing, Legal Research, Property, Torts) and each chapter will also include a short annotated bibliography curated by a law librarian. With submissions from over 40 scholars, the collection is the first of its kind to offer reflections, advice and specific instruction on how to integrate issues of diversity and inclusions into first-year doctrinal courses.

In 2021, RWU Law began sponsoring an ongoing Integrating Doctrine & Diversity Speaker Series  in collaboration with CUNY School of Law and JURIST. Each previous installment has been attended by hundreds of legal education professionals from across the country.

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Meet the Speakers

Professor of Law Bridget J. Crawford teaches Federal Income Taxation; Estate and Gift Taxation; and Wills, Trusts and Estates at Pace University. Her scholarship focuses on issues of taxation, especially wealth transfer taxation; property law, especially wills and trusts; tax policy; and gender and the law. Professor Crawford's scholarship has been published in journals including the Washington University Law Review, The University of Chicago Legal Forum,  Boston University Law Review, U.C. Davis Law Review, Washington & Lee Law Review, and specialty journals at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Michigan.

Prior to joining the Pace faculty, Professor Crawford practiced law at Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy LLP in New York (now Milbank LLP). Her practice was concerned with income, estate and gift tax planning for individuals, as well as tax and other advice to closely-held corporations and exempt organizations.

Professor Crawford is a member of the American Law Institute and the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel. She is the former Editor of the ACTEC Journal. Professor Crawford is the former chair of the AALS Section on Women in Legal Education and the AALS Section on Trusts & Estates. She is one of 26 law professors profiled in the book by Michael Hunter Schwartz et al., What the Best Law Teachers Do, recently published by Harvard University Press. From 2008 through 2012, Professor Crawford served as Pace Law School's inaugural Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development, and she served again in that role in 2014-2015.  Her book Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Opinions of the United States Supreme Court (co-edited with Linda L. Berger and Kathryn M. Stanchi), was published by Cambridge University Press in 2016.  Her following book, Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Tax Opinions (co-edited with Anthony C. Infanti), was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017. Professor Crawford is the co-editor of a series of Feminist Judgments books that cover a wide range of subject matters. Professor Crawford is a co-author of three casebooks: Federal Taxes of Gratuitous Transfers: Law & Planning (with Joseph M. Dodge & Wendy C. Gerzog), the seventh edition of Federal Income Taxation: Cases and Materials (with Joel Newman & Dorothy Brown), and the second edition of Wills, Trusts & Estates: An Integrated Approach (with Danaya C. Wright & Michael J. Higdon).

Nadiyah J. Humber teaches courses in property law, race and the law, housing law, and consumer protection at UConn Law. Her research examines the intersection of civil rights legislation and emerging technologies. She explores how artificial intelligence operates within property and financial service industries, and how these technology tools affect marginalized people and communities. Humber presents regularly on her research and pedagogy at regional and national conferences and serves on numerous conference committees.

Prior to joining the UConn Law faculty, Humber was the associate clinical professor of law at Roger Williams University School of Law, where she directed the Corporate Counsel, Government, and Prosecution Clinical Externship Programs. Before Roger Williams, she was the director of investigations and outreach and a clinical fellow at Suffolk University Law School’s Housing Discrimination Testing Program, where she managed housing discrimination investigations and co-taught an experiential housing seminar. She was also a lecturer at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business, where she taught Introduction to Law to business students. Earlier, she was a trial attorney with the Committee for Public Counsel Services in Worcester, Massachusetts, and she was the senior assistant director of admissions at Northeastern Law School.

In addition to Professor Humber’s academic and professional engagements, she volunteers with Volunteer Lawyers Project in Boston, representing clients in housing court and debt collection cases. She also volunteers with local fair housing organizations on housing discrimination prevention and initiatives. She served as a volunteer attorney for the Housing Unit of Greater Boston Legal Services, and on the steering committee of the Boston Bar Association’s Commission on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. She is a member of the Boston Bar Association, Massachusetts Women’s Bar Association, Massachusetts Black Women Attorneys, and the Massachusetts Association of Hispanic Attorneys.  Professor Humber earned her BS from Vanderbilt University and her JD from Suffolk University School of Law.

Kathy Stanchi is the E.L. Cord Professor of Law at UNLV Boyd School of Law. She is the author of numerous articles on persuasion, rhetoric, feminist theory and writing, as well as two books on writing and persuasion, Legal Persuasion: A Rhetorical Approach to the Science (with Linda Berger) and Legal Reasoning and Legal Writing (with Richard Neumann and Ellie Margolis). She is a principal organizer of the United States Feminist Judgments Project, and co-editor of the volume Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Opinions of the United States Supreme Court. She is also the executive editor of the Feminist Judgments Series, which includes volumes on tax law, family law, employment discrimination and reproductive justice. 

Professor Kerri Stone teaches Employment Discrimination, Employment Law, Labor Law, and Contracts at the FIU College of Law. She is the author of Panes of the Glass Ceiling: The Unspoken Beliefs Behind the Law's Failure to Help Women Achieve Professional Parity. After receiving a B.A. in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, magna cum laude, Professor Stone received her Juris Doctorate from NYU School of Law, where she was named a Robert McKay Scholar and served as the Developments Editor of the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics.

She has served as a law clerk to the Honorable Michael H. Dolinger in the Southern District of New York, the Honorable Julio M. Fuentes and the Honorable Maryanne Trump Barry, both of whom sit on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Newark, New Jersey. Professor Stone was then associated with the law firm of Proskauer Rose in New York, New York, at which time she was appointed to the Federal Legislation Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. She served as an adjunct professor at Montclair State University’s School of Business in Upper Montclair, New Jersey. Professor Stone then became an Honorable Abraham L. Freedman Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in Law at Temple University’s Beasley School of Law.

Her research focuses on examining anti-discrimination jurisprudence, and her work has appeared or will appear in the Hastings Law Journal, the NYU Annual Survey of American Law, the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, the Akron Law Review, the Loyola Law Review, the Kansas Law Review, the NYU Journal of Legislation and Public Policy, the Columbia Journal of Gender & Law, and the NYU Journal of International Law and Politics, among other journals. She is an officer of and an advisor to the Rosemary Barkett Appellate Inn of Court, and she was recently appointed as a Research Fellow of NYU’s Center for Labor and Employment Law and as a Contributing Editor for Jotwell’s Labor & Employment Law Section.

Rebecca Tushnet is the inaugural Frank Stanton Professor of First Amendment Law at Harvard Law School.  She clerked for Associate Justice David H. Souter and previously taught at NYU and Georgetown.  Her work focuses on copyright, trademark, and advertising law.  With Eric Goldman, she publishes a casebook on advertising and marketing law. She helped found the Organization for Transformative Works, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting and promoting fanworks.  Her blog, tushnet.blogspot.com, is one of the top intellectual property blogs, and her writings may be found at tushnet.com.  She is also an expert on the law of engagement rings.  

Moderator

Nicole P. Dyszlewski is one of the editors of Integrating Doctrine and Diversity: Inclusion and Equity in the Law School Classroom. She currently serves as the Head of Reference, Instruction, and Engagement at the RWU Law Library and as an adjunct professor. She received a B.A. from Hofstra University, a J.D. from Boston University School of Law, and an M.L.I.S. from the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Library and Information Studies. She is a member of the Massachusetts State Bar and the Rhode Island State Bar. Her areas of interest are mass incarceration, access to justice, and systems of race and gender inequality in law. Nicole was the 2020 recipient of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Volunteer Service Award and the 2015 recipient of the AALL Emerging Leader Award.
Twitter:@LibrariaNicole