Integrating Doctrine & Diversity Speaker Series: Making Changes, Making Mistakes (Part 2)

WedSep14
- Virtual Program (Zoom Webinar) Registration Required

4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EST Zoom Webinar

To kick off this year’s Integrating Doctrine and Diversity Speaker Series, we are revisiting a popular topic from last year. This session addresses what law professors should do (and not do) when they make a mistake or a comment that is racist/sexist/homophobic/classist/ableist or otherwise offensive in the law school classroom. This first installment of the second year of the speaker series will feature professors, DEIB professionals and a student who will give advice and answer questions about how to respond to mistakes with grace and efficacy.

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

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

Carmia N. Caesar is the Associate Dean for Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion at George Washington University Law School. Carmia Caesar joined GW Law in 2021 as the inaugural Associate Dean for Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. Associate Dean Caesar brings extensive experience in programming, counseling, and experiential learning having served as the Director of Externships and Experiential Learning and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center and Howard University School of Law. She was on the Diversity Committees at both law schools, working to expand the DEI infrastructure and programming that met the unique needs of both communities. While at Georgetown, Associate Dean Caesar created the Component Classroom, a field placement seminar model that maximized teaching resources and expanded the program to serve hundreds of JD students each year. At Howard, in addition to externship teaching, she taught Introduction to the American Legal System in the LLM program and Social Justice Lawyering.

Carmia Caesar
Caesar

In practice, Associate Dean Caesar represented clients in civil rights, domestic violence, and housing matters; and at the intersection of education and the juvenile criminal system.

She is a graduate of Pomona College and Harvard Law School and was a Leadership Fellow with the Northern California Center of the Coro Foundation.

Natalie M. Chin is an Associate Professor of Law at the City University of New York where she teaches classes in administrative law and disability rights and justice. She is the Co-Director of the Disability and Aging Justice Clinic (DAJC). The DAJC represents low-income New Yorkers in a range of issues including prisoners’ rights; securing due process protections in areas that include sexual rights, alternatives to guardianship and prisoners’ rights; and disability-based discrimination under state, local and federal law. As a clinical professor, Professor Chin’s students have advocated on a range of issues, including the right to maintain sexual autonomy, discrimination in access to health care and in prisons, deaf discrimination, administrative appeals to the Office for People with Developmental Disabilities, parental rights, and ensuring that the due process rights of adults with intellectual disabilities was protected in 17-A guardianship proceedings.

Natalie Chin
Chin

Professor Chin served on the Board of Directors of the Disability Rights Bar Association (DRBA) from 2018-2020, where she was a member of the DRBA’s Diversity Task Force. She is also a former Co-Chair and board member of FIERCE, an LGBT youth of color organization. Professor Chin graduated with a B.S. in Journalism from Boston University. She received her J.D. from George Washington School of Law. 

Professor Chin’s scholarship explores the intersections of disability, race and civil rights law in areas that impact the most fundamental aspects of one’s life, including sexuality, sexual rights and reproductive justice.

Dylan Oliver Malagrino
Malagrinò

Dylan Oliver Malagrinò  is the Associate Dean for Faculty Research & Development and Professor of Law. Dean Malagrinò joined the faculty of the Charleston School of Law in 2017, after ten years of full-time law teaching.  He teaches Property I & II, Land Use, and Wills, Trusts & Estates, among other courses.  He is licensed to practice law in the state courts of California and in the U.S. District Courts for the Southern and Central Districts of California.  His casebook, Land Use & Zoning Law: Planning for Accessible Communities, 2d ed. (Carolina Academic Press 2022) (with Robin Paul Malloy) comprehensively integrates issues of accessibility under the Americans with Disabilities Act and land use and zoning laws, addressing the complexities of aging in place and of disability in the context of local land regulation.  Dean Malagrinò serves on the Consortium Working Group of the “South Carolina Diversity Pipeline to Bar” steering committee charged with identifying mechanisms to coordinate efforts to diversify the S.C. Bar.

Ralph Tavares is the Managing Associate, Equity and Inclusive Excellence at Storbeck Search. Ralph is a problem solver who meets challenges with enthusiasm and an open heart. Spending nearly two decades creating equity in and access to higher education for students of color, Ralph has played critical roles in developing multicultural recruitment, retention, and mentoring plans and programs.

Ralph Tavares
Tavares

Ralph has worked in administrative roles at Salve Regina University, Providence College, and, most recently, Roger Williams University School of Law. 

Among his leadership and program activities, Ralph is the president and a member of the board of trustees of Diversity and Inclusion Professionals of Rhode Island (DAIP), a lead consultant with Huckel Inclusive, a Senior Inclusion and Educational Specialist at AWE (Advancing Workplace Excellence), a member of the planning committee for the National Partnership for Educational Access, and the Northeast Region Representative of the National Association for Law Student Affairs Professionals.

He is the recipient of the 2021 Dean’s Distinguished Service Award from Roger Williams University School of Law, the 2021 Diversity Champion Award from Providence Business News, the 2019 Torchbearer Award from Providence College, and the 2015 Founder’s Award from the New England Counselors of Color Bridging Access to College. 

Eden Yerby
Yerby

Eden Yerby is a current Roger Williams University School of Law student, Class of 2023. Eden completed her Bachelor of Arts degree at University of South Carolina in Global Studies with an emphasis on Sustainable Development in December 2019. She is currently completing her JD at RWU and plans on pursuing a law career in environmental or land use lawfollowing her expected graduation in the Spring of 2023. Eden has spent a significant amount of time in law school advocating on behalf of diverse students. She is passionate about diversity and inclusion and serves on the Diversity and Inclusion Steering Committee as well as the LGBTQ+ subcommittee at RWU Law. During her time at RWU she has been an active member in the Sea Grant Fellowship program where she has assisted in researching issues facing the Rhode Island communities and their ability to access the coast. Additionally she has participated in the Street Law Pro Bono collaborative and has served as a teaching assistant for professor Shine Tu’s property class.  

Meet the Moderator

DyszlewskiNicole 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 Director of Special Programs, Academic Affairs at RWU Law 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