8:30 - 9:15 AM
Coffee and Reception
9:15 - 9:30 AM
Opening Remarks and Welcome from the Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs and the Promise Institute for Human Rights
9:30 - 10:00 AM
Keynote Speech I
Soledad García Muñoz
10:00 - 11:25 AM
Race and Ethnicity Panel
This panel will look at borders, the pandemic and human rights through a lens of race and ethnicity. Using multiple perspectives, including Critical Race Theory and Third World Approaches to International Law, the panelists will explore how various racial identity markers themselves become borders that mediate access to rights, in the context of migrations and global pandemics.
Speakers:
Introductions by by Joseph Berra and Aslı Bâli
Moderator: Aslı Bâli
MCLE Readings
11:25 - 11:45 AM
Break
11:45 AM - 1:00 PM
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Panel
While SOGI discrimination may cause migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers to flee their country of origin, socially derived SOGI borders continue to exist inside territorial boundaries and impact immigration practices. This panel will address how international and domestic law contributes to the reinforcement of SOGI borders
and SOGI-based denial of human rights, particularly in the context of the COVID pandemic.
Speakers:
Moderator: Ari Shaw
MCLE Readings
Break
1:00 PM - 2:40 PM
Lunch Break
Boxed lunch provided for those registered to attend in person.
*2:00 PM - 2:40 PM
Student Paper Presentation
International law is currently establishing a framework for protecting Indigenous traditional knowledge, however a thorough analysis of customary international law demonstrates sufficient global consensus to support an understanding that Indigenous communities already have a customary right to traditional knowledge protections.
UCLA Law Student Bharath Gururagavendran, LLM will speak to his research on the implied rules derived from customary norms and their implications for human rights protections of Indigenous people's traditional knowledge. UCLA Law Professor Khaled Abou El Fadl will provide commentary.
2:40 - 3:55 PM
Disability Panel
This panel will seek to address how the social conception of disability status drives and impacts migration, and serves as a barrier to those attempting to access and utilize domestic power structures and institutions. It will also consider how the challenges faced by persons with physical and mental disabilities are exacerbated in the context of global pandemics.
Speakers:
Moderator: Brad Sears
MCLE Readings
3:55 - 4:15 PM
Break
4:15 - 4:45 PM
Keynote Speech II
E. Tendayi Achiume
4:45 - 4:50 PM
Thank You from JILFA
4:50 PM
Reception