A special symposium celebrated Professor Gómez's retirement and honored her groundbreaking career and tremendous impact on Critical Race Studies, UCLA School of Law, and legal and academic communities at large. 

View video of the symposium here. 

3 p.m. — Welcome 

Remarks from

• Michael Waterstone, Dean of UCLA School of Law
• Cheryl I. Harris, Vice Dean for Community, Equality and Justice; Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Professor in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties 
• Uriel Saldivar Esteban, J.D. Candidate '25 & Community Service Chair, UCLA Latinx Law Students Association

3:30 p.m. — Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race

Panelists will discuss Professor Gómez's groundbreaking 2007 text, which has been established as an essential resource for understanding the complex history of Mexican Americans and racial classification in the United States. 

• Moderator: Jerry Kang, Distinguished Professor of Law; Founding Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (2015-20), UCLA School of Law 
• Genevieve Carpio, Associate Professor, César E. Chávez Department of Chicana/o Studies, UCLA 
• Nicholas Espíritu (Law '04), Deputy Director, Legal, National Immigration Law Center
• Casandra Salgado (Ph.D. Sociology '19), Assistant Professor, Sociology, Arizona State University 

4:30 p.m. — Break

4:45 p.m. — Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism

Panelists will discuss Professor Gómez's most recent book exploring the impact of Latinos’ new collective racial identity on the way Americans understand race. 

• Moderator: Aslı Ü. Bâli, Professor of Law, Yale Law School  
• Walter Allen, Distinguished Professor of Education, Sociology, and African American Studies; Allan Murray Cartter Chair in Higher Education, UCLA School of Education & Information Studies 
• Sherene H. Razack, Chair and Distinguished Professor, Gender Studies; Penny Kanner Endowed Chair in Women's Studies, UCLA  
• Saúl Sarabia (Law '96), Founder and Director, Solidarity Consulting 

5:45 p.m. — Keynote by Laura E. Gómez, Rachel F. Moran Endowed Chair in Law 

Introduction by Devon W. Carbado, The Honorable Harry Pregerson Professor of Law, UCLA School of Law (Read by Executive Director of the Critical Race Studies Program Jasleen Kohli, with additional remarks.)

6:30 p.m. — Reception and Dinner in Shapiro Courtyard

Remarks from

• LaToya Baldwin Clark, Professor of Law; Faculty Director, Critical Race Studies Program, UCLA School of Law 
• Jasleen Kohli, Executive Director, Critical Race Studies Program, UCLA School of Law  

CO-SPONSORS

• UCLA School of Law
• Chicanx-Latinx Law Review
• Latinx Law Students Association

Convening the foremost copyright scholars, practitioners, and industry leaders on emerging and pressing issues within copyright law — this year’s symposium focuses on AUTHORSHIP. Panelists will address authorship and AI, community authors and cultural property, and more.

Keynote by Andrew Foglia, Deputy Director of Policy and International Affairs at the U.S. Copyright Office. 

Co-hosted with the McCarthy Institute, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University.

Subject to change. Panel descriptions follow.

8:45 a.m. — Welcome by Mark P. McKenna, Vice Dean and Professor, UCLA School of Law, with Michael Waterstone, Dean of UCLA School of Law and David Franklyn, Executive Director of the McCarthy Institute

9 a.m. — Keynote by Andrew Foglia, Deputy Director of Policy and International Affairs, U.S. Copyright Office, with introduction by Douglas Sylvester, Dean Emeritus and Professor of Law, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University

10 a.m. — Panel: Corporate Authorship

11:15 a.m. — Break

11:30 a.m. — Panel: Authorship after Warhol

12:45 p.m. — Lunch

1:45 p.m. — Panel: Community Authors and Cultural Property 

3:00 p.m. — Break

3:15 p.m. — Panel: AI and Authorship

Reception to follow

KEYNOTE REMARKS

• Andrew Foglia, Deputy Director of Policy and International Affairs, U.S. Copyright Office
• Moderator: Douglas Sylvester, Dean Emeritus, Professor of Law, Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law

UCLA School of Law is a State Bar of California-approved MCLE provider. This session is approved for 1.00 Hours of MCLE Credit.

PANELS

CORPORATE AUTHORSHIP, featuring

• Moderator: David Nimmer, Of Counsel - Irell & Manella LLP
• Paige Adamczyk, CHA Law Ethics - Attorney
• Betty An (Law '13), NBCUniversal  - VP, Intellectual Property 
• Jonathan Anschell, Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer, Mattel, Inc.; UCLA lecturer in law
• James Dowd, Partner - WilmerHale LLP
• John Paul Oleksiuk, Partner, Copyright and Trademark Litigator - Cooley

UCLA School of Law is a State Bar of California-approved MCLE provider. This session is approved for 1.25 Hours of MCLE Credit.

AUTHORSHIP AFTER WARHOL, featuring

• Moderator: Eugene Volokh, UCLA Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law
• Elana Nightingale Dawson, Partner - Copyright, Litigation and Trial, and Technology - Latham & Watkins
• Bobby Ghajar, Intellectual Property Litigation Partner - Cooley
• Christopher Jon Sprigman, New York University Murray, and Kathleen Bring Professor of Law
• Haochen Sun,  Faculty of Law - University of Hong Kong 
• Timothy Yoo, Partner - Bird Marella

UCLA School of Law is a State Bar of California-approved MCLE provider. This session is approved for 1.25 Hours of MCLE Credit.

COMMUNITY AUTHORS AND CULTURAL PROPERTY

• Moderator: Trevor Reed, ASU Sandra Day O'Connor Professor of Law
• Aman Gebru, University of Houston Law -  Assistant Professor 
• J. Osei-Tutu, FIU College of Law - Associate Dean, Professor of Law 
• Aaron Jones, Tulalip Tribe of Washington
• Mitch Stoltz, Electronic Frontier Foundation - IP Litigation Director 
• Yuanxiao Xu, Counsel - Creative Commons

UCLA School of Law is a State Bar of California-approved MCLE provider. This session is approved for 1.25 Hours of MCLE Credit.

AI and AUTHORSHIP, featuring

• Moderator: Gary Marchant, ASU Regents and Foundation Professor of Law
• Nathaniel Bach, Partner - Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
• Ian Ballon, Intellectual property and internet litigator - Greenberg Traurig, LLP
• Danielle W. Bulger, Associate - ArentFox Schiff LLP 
• Angela Dunning, Partner - Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
• Krishna Sood, Microsoft - Assistant General Counsel and IP group senior leader 

UCLA School of Law is a State Bar of California-approved MCLE provider. This session is approved for 1.25 Hours of MCLE Credit.

READING MATERIALS 

• Richard Prince, Instagram, and Authorship in a Digital World

• 20-842 - AMO Development, LLC et al v. Alcon Vision LLC, et al

• Pooh-Poohing Copyright Law’s “Inalienable” Termination Rights

• Cultural IP vs. Commercial IP

• Columbia Pictures v. George Gallo

• Hill v. MGM

• Horror Inc v. Miller

• Waite v. UMG Recordings, INC.

• Marvel Characters INC. v. Kirby

• OpenAI Seeks to Dismiss Parts of The New York Times’s Lawsuit

• Voice actors and generative AI: Legal challenges and emerging protections

• Addtl. Reading Materials

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