Beyond the First Year: Integrating Doctrine & Diversity, Volume 2 Release Celebration
Beyond the First Year: Integrating Doctrine & Diversity, Volume 2 Release Celebration
Join us for an enriching webinar as we celebrate the release of "Beyond the First Year," the latest volume in the Integrating Doctrine & Diversity series. Engage in a dynamic discussion with the series editors and gain valuable insights into weaving diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging into a variety of upper level courses. Listen to a selection of authors discuss their essays and offer practical strategies for enhancing your teaching throughout the upper-level curriculum. Don't miss this opportunity to advance your approach and contribute to the evolving landscape of inclusive legal pedagogy.
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.
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM EST
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.
Meet the Speakers
Raquel Gabriel is Professor of Law and Director of the Law Library who primarily teaches Legal Research at CUNY School of Law. An active member of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), from 2010 – 2013 she penned a series of columns in AALL’s LAW LIBRARY JOURNAL, geared towards exploring diversity issues in the law library profession. Professor Gabriel was included in CELEBRATING DIVERSITY: A LEGACY OF MINORITY LEADERSHIP IN THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LAW LIBRARIES, 2ND ED. (2018), where she was recognized for her leadership role within the Association.
Suzanne Harrington-Steppen is the Associate Director of Pro Bono Programs and the Director of Summer Public Interest Externship Program at Roger Williams University School of Law. Suzanne received a B.A. in Political Science from Boston College and a J.D. from City University of New York School of Law. Prior to joining the Law School as the Project Coordinator for the Pro Bono Collaborative, Suzanne completed a two-year federal clerkship with the Honorable Kevin Nathaniel Fox, United States Magistrate Judge in the Southern District of New York. Prior to law school, Suzanne worked as a policy analyst for the California Food Policy Advocates and as a community organizer for the Los Angeles Coalition to End Hunger and Homelessness.
Nazune Menka is the inaugural Executive Director for the Center for Indigenous Law & Justice at Berkeley Law. Professor Menka joined Berkeley Law in September 2020 as the Tribal Cultural Resources Project Policy Fellow and then served in the Environmental Law Clinic as a Supervising Attorney for the 2022-2023 academic year. Professor Menka teaches “Indigenous Peoples, Law, and the United States” and teaches a new undergraduate Legal Studies course “Decolonizing UC Berkeley” (LS 172AC) which she created in 2021.
Born and raised in Alaska, Professor Menka is Koyukon Athabaskan and Lumbee. She holds a J.D. from the University of Arizona’s James E. Rogers School of Law with a Certificate in Indigenous Peoples Law & Policy
Anna Russell is a US Court Librarian, managing the Alaska library branch. She provides legal research support for Circuit, District and Bankruptcy court staff. Staying current with information technology tools and trends, she was thrilled to have the opportunity to edit the 2021 and 2024 Integrating Doctrine and Diversity titles in the Carolina Academic Press teaching book series. She is currently serving on the American Association of Law Libraries’ executive board. Prior to her librarian work, she worked as an intelligence analyst for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. She has also honorably served as a United States Surface Warfare Naval Officer, living for a time in Manama, Bahrain and visiting many ports across the Pacific Ocean. In her free time, Anna is helping to raise a now 3-year old Alaskan malamute puppy names Seirios.
Brandon Stump joined the Cleveland State University College of Law in fall 2020, and has taught Legal Writing, Advanced Brief Writing, Scholarly Writing, and Labor Law. Before joining CSU, after three years as an adjunct professor of Legal Writing at Duquesne University, Prof. Stump taught at his alma mater, the West Virginia University College of Law, as a Visiting Teaching Associate Professor of Legal Writing.
Stump began his legal career in Detroit, Michigan, where he worked as a civil rights attorney representing victims of police brutality with Goodman & Hurwitz and later as a research attorney for the Michigan Court of Appeals. After five years of practice, following a lifelong interest in literature, art, and writing, Stump returned to school to earn an MFA in creative writing - fiction from the University of New Orleans (UNO). As part of his creative writing residencies, Stump studied literature and participated in writers' workshops in Cork, Ireland for two summers, exploring the country for inspiration. In December 2017, Stump completed his graduate thesis, "The Palimpsest Boys," and graduated from UNO.
Stump appears to be the first openly Autistic law professor to ever publish a law review article: "Allowing Autistic Academics the Freedom to Be Autistic: The ADA and a Neurodiverse Future in Pennsylvania and Beyond," 57 Duq. L. Rev. 92 (2019). Recently, Stump published “Can Superman Save the Supreme Court after Dobbs? Using Analogical Reasoning to Teach the American People the Superpower of Stare Decisis,” 72 Clev. St. L. Rev. 203 (2023). One of Stump's primary goals is to change the understanding of diversity in higher education to include disability and to add intersectional disabled perspectives to the canon. In his classroom he incorporates literature, theater, and critical theory.
Carol Suzuki serves as the Keleher & McLeod Professor at the University of New Mexico School of Law. She was also a contributor to the first volume of Integrating Doctrine & Diversity. She teaches Torts and is a co-author of Tort Law and Practice (6th ed.), the required case book for all UNM first-year Torts sections. She also serves as Faculty Advisor for the New Mexico Law Review and is a supervising attorney for the Community Lawyering Clinic, focusing on immigration, family law, and delinquency defense. Professor Suzuki earned her J.D. from Columbia Law School and her A.B. from Stanford University.
Genevieve Tung is the Associate Director for Educational Programs at the Biddle Law Library at the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School. In this role, she teaches and coordinates Biddle’s legal research instruction for 1L, upper-level JD, LLM, and ML students. She received a JD from Fordham School of Law and a MLIS from the Drexel University College of Computing & Informatics. Before becoming a law librarian, Genevieve practiced with the intellectual property group of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in New York.
Meet the 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 a Professor and the Director of Special Programs, Academic Affairs at Roger Williams University School of Law. 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.