CRS Initiatives

Innovations that merge critical race theory and practice

Critical Race Theory coheres in the drive to excavate the relationship between the law, legal doctrine, ideology, and racial power and the motivation ‘not merely to understand the vexed bond between law and racial power, but to change it.’ ”  Professor Cheryl I. Harris, in “Critical Race Studies: An Introduction” (2002)

The students and faculty of the CRS Program apply the principles of critical race theory to concrete legal and social problems.  We have launched various initiatives and innovative projects which simultaneously enrich the education of all students at the UCLA School of Law, while supporting the use of law to challenge racial subordination and social injustice.

• Gulf Coast Reconstruction Project
• Race and Re-entry Initiative
• Global Affirmative Action Praxis Project in collaboration with the African American Policy Forum 
• American Racialization and the US War on Terror
• CRT Disability Studies
• Social Justice Writing Circle
• Racial Profiling and Local Law Enforcement of Immigration Laws in collaboration with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund