This virtual event will feature ASL/CART for accessibility. A transcript of the panel will be available upon request within a few days' time.

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Panel Description

The United States is in a moment of retrenchment when it comes to racial justice, disability justice, truth, reconciliation, and repair.  There are attacks on teaching about the history of race and racism in schools.  There are attacks on any meaningful efforts for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. There is backlash to the civil rights regime more broadly and the dismantlement of agencies tasked with civil rights enforcement.

 

This panel will discuss strategies for public and legal advocacy for reparations even in this moment of retrenchment. Dispute the backlash, campaigns for reparations are still ongoing and some have achieved success. Panelist will make the case for reparations and discuss how to think about reparations that redress harms to groups with histories of oppression, including efforts to obtain reparations for Black American survivors of the Tulsa Race Massacre, and survivors of psychiatric institutionalization and eugenics.

 

Eric Miller

After receiving his bachelor of laws in 1991 from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, Eric Miller received his LLM from Harvard Law School in 1993. He later returned to Harvard as a Charles Hamilton Houston Fellow, going on to become a joint fellow at the Harvard Criminal Justice Institute and the Harvard Civil Rights Project. He clerked for Judge Myron Thompson, U.S. District Court, Middle Court, Alabama from 1998-1999. Miller is no stranger to Los Angeles; he clerked for Judge Stephen Reinhardt on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit from 2000-2001, and was an associate at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, LLP for two years.

 

Prior to joining the Loyola Law School faculty, Miller taught at Saint Louis University School of Law from 2005 to 2012. His work pays particular attention to the study of policing, race and problem-solving courts. Miller’s scholarship focuses the intersection of criminal justice with sociology and criminology, the study of problem-solving courts and legal theory.

 

Prianka Nair

Prianka Nair is Assistant Professor of Clinical Law and Faculty Director of the Disability and Civil Rights Clinic. The clinic represents adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities with respect to a range of issues, including access to public benefits, housing and guardianship termination, and restoration of rights.

 

Prior to joining the faculty at Brooklyn Law School, Professor Nair worked as a public interest attorney at Disability Rights New York. She conducted abuse and neglect investigations, focusing on access to services in correctional facilities across New York State. She has also litigated cases and led policy changes to achieve equal rights for persons with disabilities. Her litigation included cases involving violations of the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and the Fourteenth Amendment. She has also represented clients in all aspects of guardianship and related proceedings in state and federal court.

 

Professor Nair completed her Masters of Law (LL.M) at Columbia University, where she was a Kent Scholar. Prior to this, she worked as a solicitor representing the Australian federal government at the Australian Government Solicitor.

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Moderated by Professor Jamelia Morgan, an award-winning and acclaimed scholar and teacher focusing on issues at the intersections of race, gender, disability, and criminal law and punishment. Her scholarship and teaching examine the development of disability as a legal category in American law, disability and policing, overcriminalization and the regulation of physical and social disorder, and the constitutional dimensions of the criminalization of status.

 

Prof. Morgan received a B.A. in Political Science and a Master of Arts in Sociology from Stanford University, and her J.D. from Yale Law School.

Prior to law school, she served as associate director of the African American Policy Forum, a social justice think tank that works to bridge the gap between scholarly research and public discourse related to affirmative action, structural racism, and gender inequality.