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PAGE 1 THE NATIONAL BLACK LAW JOURNAL ~ UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW Letter from the Editorial Board REGRESSION ANAYLSIS: THE STATUS OF AFRICAN AMERICANS IN AMERICAN LEGAL EDUCATION PAGE 2 Table of Contents: Letter from the Editorial Board Derrick Bell Biography Speakers & Panelist Biographies Agenda Sponsors Brief History of the NBLJ How to Subscribe Honorary Board Members 1 2 3 Derrick Bell Keynote Speaker Renowned as the professor who gave up his tenured position at the Harvard Law School in protest of the university's lack of minority women faculty members, Derrick Bell is also an innovative, insightful and unorthodox scholar and writer. Bell, now a professor at New York University’s School of Law, helped pioneer a new style of narrative scholarship, mixing allegory and anecdote together with analysis and fact. Bell was born in 1930 in Pittsburgh, where he was the first member of his family to go to college. After serving in the U.S. Air Force in Korea, he entered the University of Pittsburgh Law School with the goal of becoming a civil rights lawyer. He began his legal career at the Justice Department, then was recruited by Thurgood Marshall to join the Legal Defense and Education Fund of the NAACP. In 1971, Bell became the first black tenured professor at Harvard Law School. Bell published Race, Racism and American Law, now a standard law school text, in 1973. Its critique of traditional civil rights legislation helped spark the academic movement toward critical race theory, in which scholars such as Richard Delgado, Kimberle Crenshaw and Kendall Thomas sought new paradigms for understanding and addressing racial injustice. The book's fourth edition appeared in 2000. 9 11 13 13 14 Derrick Bell Professor of Law, NYU School of Law As a writer, Bell is best known for his series of books featuring the fictional civil rights leader Geneva Crenshaw. The books, which include And We Are Not Saved, Faces at the Bottom of the Well, Gospel Choirs, and Afrolantica Legacies, interweave fables and philosophical dialogues with Bell's analyses of legal history. "I suppose there would be a problem if everyone wrote about race in the Derrick Bell style," Jeremy Waldron wrote in a New York Times review of Gospel Choirs. "We need analysis and we need social science as much as dream, dialogue and narrative. But we would certainly be the poorer if no one wrote like this; for even to be disconcerted by Mr. Bell's technique is to open oneself to the challenge of his thesis and the soaring power of the music that sustains it." At the age of 70, after a lifetime of passionate commitment to social justice, Bell wrote Ethical Ambition: Living a Life of Meaning and Worth. The book draws on the lives of role models like Martin Luther King, Jr., Paul Robeson, and Medgar Evers, as well as on Bell's own life, to explore what it means to live and work with integrity, dignity and compassion. "We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained," Bell writes. His own accomplishments are an inspiration to the brave souls willing to buck that system. PAGE 3 THE NATIONAL BLACK LAW JOURNAL ~ UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW Speakers & Panelist Biographies Richard Brooks Law professor and economist, Richard Brooks is an Associate Professor at Yale University. His research focuses on the means through which laws and regulation influence behavior and perception. His recent work has focused on the relationship between race and socioeconomic status. He has also conducted a series of empirical studies of how changes in the law affect the manner in which firms and individuals organize themselves. Among them, he has looked housing segregation, school desegregation and the marketing practices of the gun industry. Brooks has also studied the organization of the oil shipping industry in response to stringent regulations enacted in the wake of the Exxon Valdez oil spill, as well as the organization of the automobile industry and coalpowered electric utilities after implementation of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990. Richard Brooks Professor, Yale Law School His current work focuses on the interaction of racial restrictive covenants and social norms. He has held faculty positions at Northwestern University and Cornell, where he received his B.A. He earned his J.D. from the University of Chicago, and M.A. & Ph.D. (economics) from the University of California at Berkeley. Devon Carbado Devon Carbado teaches Constitutional Criminal Procedure, Constitutional Law, Critical Race Theory, and Criminal Adjudication. He was elected Professor of the Year by the UCLA School of Law Class of 2000, is the 2003 recipient of the Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching, and was recently awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award from Harvard Law School's Black Law Students Association. At Harvard, Professor Carbado was editor-in-chief of The Harvard Black Letter Law Journal, a member of the Board of Student Advisors, and winner of the Northeast Frederick Douglass Moot Court Competition. After receiving his law degree, he joined Latham & Watkins in Los Angeles as an associate before his appointment as a Faculty Fellow and Visiting Associate Professor of Law at the University of Iowa College of Law. Devon Carbado Professor, UCLA School of Law Professor Carbado writes in the areas of critical race theory, employment discrimination, criminal procedure, constitutional law, and identity, and is currently studying African-American responses to the internment of Japanese Americans. He is a faculty associate of the Center for African American Studies. REGRESSION ANAYLSIS: THE STATUS OF AFRICAN AMERICANS IN AMERICAN LEGAL EDUCATION PAGE 4 Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw Kimberlé Crenshaw teaches Civil Rights and other courses in critical race studies and constitutional law. She has written in the areas of civil rights, black feminist legal theory, and race, racism and the law. Her work has appeared in the Harvard Law Review, the National Black Law Journal, the Stanford Law Review, and the Southern California Law Review. A founding coordinator of the Critical Race Theory workshop; coeditor of Critical Race Theory: Key Documents That Shaped the Movement. She has lectured nationally and internationally on race matters, addressing audiences throughout Europe, Africa, and South America. She has facilitated workshops for civil rights activists in Brazil and constitutional court judges in South Africa. Her work on race and gender was influential in the drafting of the equality clause in the South African Constitution. In 2001, she authored the background paper on Race and Gender Discrimination for the United Nations’ World Conference on Racism and helped facilitate the inclusion of gender in the WCAR Conference Declaration. In the domestic arena, she has served as a member of the National Science Foundation’s Kimberlé Williams committee to research violence against women and has assisted the legal team Crenshaw Professor, representing Anita Hill. In 1996, she co-founded the African-American Policy Forum to highlight the centrality of gender in racial justice discourse. Professor UCLA & Columbia Schools of Law Crenshaw is also a founding member of the Women’s Media Initiative and is a regular commentator on NPR’s “The Tavis Smiley Show.” She was twice named Professor of the Year at UCLA Law School and received the Lucy Terry Prince Unsung Heroine Award, presented by the Lawyers Committee on Civil Rights Under Law, for her path breaking work on black women and the law. Kimberly West-Faulcon After law school, Kimberly West-Faulcon clerked for the Hon. Stephen Reinhardt on the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and began her public interest legal career as a Skadden Fellow. West-Faulcon was the architect and lead counsel for several major class action civil rights lawsuits challenging race discrimination, including Castaneda v. Regents of California, a Title VI challenge to the University of California at Berkeley 's post-affirmative action admissions policy. She took on cases for minority plaintiffs challenging the employment practices of the Los Angeles Police Department and Abercrombie & Fitch, and she represented students in North Carolina and Massachusetts. She is the former western regional counsel and director of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. A graduate of Yale Law School, West-Faulcon served as an editor of the Kimberly WestYale Law Journal and was founder and director of Project SAT, a volunteer proFaulcon gram that provided no-cost SAT exam preparation to economically disadvantaged Professor, high school students. She also authored a note in the Yale Law Journal "A Deseg- Loyola Law School regation Tool that Backfired: Magnet Schools and Classroom Segregation" and coauthored (with Yale Professor Owen Fiss) a civil procedure instructional computer game, " Randolph County : A Game of Discovery," published by the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction. WestFaulcon is admitted to practice in New York and California . As a member of several bar and civic organizations, she speaks regularly on many issues, from reform of the Los Angeles Police Department to Title VI theory and legal practice. Most recently, she was selected as a 2005 "Southern California Super Lawyer" by Los Angeles magazine and she was lauded by the Los Angeles Daily Journal and Ebony magazine. West-Faulcon's cases have been covered by national media, including NPR's "Tavis Smiley Show," Education Week and The New York Times. PAGE 5 THE NATIONAL BLACK LAW JOURNAL ~ UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW Christine Chambers Goodman While at Stanford Law School, Professor Goodman participated on the board of directors for the Annual Women of Color and the Law Conference, worked as a teaching assistant in the political science department, and was an assistant editor for a new journal on gender issues. After law school she worked as an associate at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips (1991-93) and Gipson, Hoffman & Pancione (1993-1995), engaging in civil litigation in state and federal courts. In 1995, Professor Goodman began teaching at UCLA, and created and taught a course in lawyering skills for public interest attorneys. Professor Goodman joined the Pepperdine faculty in 2001. She teaches Race and the Law, Criminal Law, Evidence, and Trial Practice. Professor Goodman also serves as an advisor to the Black Law Students' Association and the Women's Legal Association, as well as a mock trial team coach. Professor Goodman writes on equal protection topics, including affirmative action, preferences and racial privacy. She is member of the Los Angeles County Bar Association, Women Lawyers' Association of Los Angeles, and the California State Bar Association. Christine Chambers Goodman Professor, Loyola Law School Cheryl I. Harris Professor Harris began her teaching career at Chicago-Kent College of Law in 1990, after more than a decade in practice that included criminal appellate and trial work and municipal government representation as a senior attorney for the city of Chicago. As the National Co-Chair for the National Conference of Black Lawyers for several years, she developed expertise in international human rights, particularly concerning South Africa. Professor Harris was a key organizer of several major conferences both in South Africa and in the United States that helped establish a dialogue between U.S. legal scholars and South African lawyers during the development of South Africa's first democratic constitution in 1994. She is the author of leading works in Critical Race Theory including the highly influential Whiteness as Property (Harv. L. Rev.). Her work has also taken up the relationship among race, gender and property and most recently has focused on race, equality and the Constitution through the re-examination of Plessy v. Ferguson and Grutter v. Bollinger. In 2002 Professor Harris received a fellowship from the Mellon Foundation to co-host a semester long interdisciplinary working group and conference series on "Redress in Social Thought, Law and Literature," at the University of California Humanities Research Institute. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the Bunche Center for African-American Studies and is part of the Executive Council of the American Studies Association. Professor Harris is the recipient of the ACLU Foundation of Southern California 2005 Distinguished Professor Award for Civil Rights Education. Cheryl Harris Professor, UCLA School of Law Inside Story Headline REGRESSION ANAYLSIS: THE STATUS OF AFRICAN AMERICANS IN AMERICAN LEGAL EDUCATION PAGE 6 Luke Harris Dr. Luke Charles. Harris, Director of Programs and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the African American Policy Forum, is an Associate Professor of American Politics and Constitutional Law at Vassar College. He clerked for the late A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., the distinguished scholar and former Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit; and he served as a Fulbright Scholar to England at the University of Warwick, School of Law. Luke Harris Dr. Harris currently serves as Chair for Vassar’s Department of PolitiProfessor, cal Science, and he is the author of a series of critically acclaimed articles on Vassar College questions of equality in contemporary America. He is completing a book entitled The Meaning of Equality in Post-apartheid America. Two of his essays “My Two Mothers and the Million Man March” and “The Challenge and Possibility for Black Men to Embrace Feminism” appeared in Devon Carbado’s edited anthology Black Men on Race Gender and Sexuality (New York University Press: NY, 1999). Dr. Harris is cofounder, along with Professor Kimberle Crenshaw of Columbia Law School, of the African American Policy Forum, a thinktank that promotes public education and activism on feminist issues in the Black community. He was also the co-writer and chief consultant for Kathe Sandler’s 1993 award-winning documentary film A Question of Color. Jerry Kang Jerry Kang teaches Asian American Jurisprudence, Communications Law & Policy, and Civil Procedure. His scholarly pursuits include communications law, cyberlaw, and critical race theory. He has spoken and testified nationally on various matters ranging from Internet privacy to affirmative action. The UCLA Law Class of 1998 named him Professor of the Year. He has served as co-director, with Professor Laura Gómez, of the School of Law's Concentration in Critical Race Studies, founded in fall 2000. During law school, Professor Kang was a supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review and Special Assistant to Harvard University's Advisory Committee on Free Speech. He then clerked for Judge William A. Norris of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and worked at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration on cyberspace policy. Professor Kang is the author of Communications Law & Policy: Cases and Materials (2001) and co-author of Race, Rights, and Reparation: The Law and the Japanese American Internment (with Yamamoto, Chon, Izumi, and Wu, 2001). His most recent scholarly works, addressing cyberspace privacy and "cyber-race" (the techno-social construction of race in cyberspace), have appeared in the Stanford and Harvard law reviews.) Jerry Kang Professor, UCLA School of Law PAGE 7 THE NATIONAL BLACK LAW JOURNAL ~ UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW Jaribu Hill Jaribu Hill is a civil and human rights attorney and Executive Director of the Mississippi Workers’ Center for Human Rights (MWCHR), an organization which uses a human rights organizing framework to fight discrimination in housing, employment and voting. The MWCHR is a worker advocacy organization that provides organizing support, legal representation and training for low-wage, non-union workers in the state of Mississippi. Through direct action campaigns, organizing sessions and trainings, it raises awareness among workers as to the many ways their human rights are violated in the workplace and in their communities. Jaribu previously worked with Amnesty International in Oxford, Mississippi as a Soros Justice Fellow where she did education and advocacy work that focused on issues affecting juveniles and inmates with mental retardation who are on death row. While in law school, Jaribu was an Ella Baker Intern with the Center for Constitutional Rights. After law school, Jaribu became a Skadden Fellow in the Mississippi office of the American Civil Liberties Union. Later, Jaribu went on to direct the Southern Regional Office of CCR. In addition to founding the MWCHR, Jaribu also founded several other organizations, including the Southern Human Rights Organizers’ Conference, Black Women’s International Roundtable, CUNY Law School Mississippi Project, and the Fannie Lou Hamer Sister Roundtable. She is also a singer and composer and was lead singer with the renowned singing duo Serious Bizness for over 15 years. Jaribu Hill Founder and Exec. Dir., Mississippi Workers’ Center for Human Rights Valerie Purdie-Vaughns Dr. Purdie-Vaughns’ primary area of research is stigma and intergroup processes. Given the pervasiveness of stigma in interpersonal, intergroup, and international contexts, she believes that investigating targets of stigma sheds light on basic psychological processes. Her research demonstrates that settings where the inclusion process occurs (e.g., schools, the workplace) provide targets of stigma with subtle contextual cues that signal the value of their social identity, information that is perhaps more important than the prejudiced attitudes of individual members of the institution. Targets of stigma attend to these cues, which impact their experience of threat and degree to which they trust a given setting. She applies this framework to explore how contextual cues signaling minority representation and diversity messages affect African-Americans in workplace and educaValerie Purdie-Vaughns tional settings. Her research also examines how cues signaling gender represen- Professor of Psychology, tation and leadership style affect women in legal settings. Yale University Other interests include multicultural messages and perceptions of stigma, fear of stigma and avoidance of health behaviors, beliefs about equality and stigma in international contexts, and interpersonal rejection and romantic relationships. Erika Woods Woods is a graduate of UCLA School of Law and is currently a staff attorney with the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law. While at UCLA Woods was the lead student author of an amicus brief filed in support of the University of Michigan’s use of race in admissions. In the brief, Woods described the alienation felt by students of color when institutions lack a “critical mass” of other students with whom to identify. REGRESSION ANAYLSIS: THE STATUS OF AFRICAN AMERICANS IN AMERICAN LEGAL EDUCATION PAGE 8 Angela Reddock Reddock is the principal attorney and founding partner of the Reddock Law Group located in Los Angeles, California. Formerly, Reddock was a partner with the law firm Collins, Mesereau & Reddock & Yu, LLP also located in Los Angeles. As an attorney, Reddock specializes in business litigation, labor and employment law and civil rights litigation. Her clients include both public and private sector clients and Fortune 500 companies to small and mid-size businesses. Reddock received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Political Science from Amherst College in Amherst, Massachusetts and graduated cum laude. While at Amherst, she also studied abroad at Saint Catherine’s College in Oxford, England where she concentrated her studies in modern British literature and politics. After graduating from Amherst College, Reddock participated in a one-year fellowship in public policy and public affairs with the Coro Foundation of Los Angeles. After completing the Coro fellowship, Angela matriculated to UCLA School of Law where she obtained her Juris Doctorate in May 1995. Reddock has received numerous awards and commendations for her commitment to community service. Currently, she serves as a Commissioner on the Los Angeles City Transportation Commission; a Commissioner on the Los Angeles County Small Business Development Commission; and as a Member of the State Board of Barbering and Cosmetology. She also serves as a Board Member for such organizations as Ability First, Social Concerns of Los Angeles and the African Marketplace & Cultural Faire. She also is a contributing writer for Minorities in Business Magazine and is Chair of the Board of Directors of the Los Angeles African American Women’s Public Policy Institute. Inside Story Headline Michele Landis Dauber Michele Landis Dauber received her JD from Northwestern in 1998, and her PhD in Sociology from Northwestern in 2003. After graduation clerked for Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She has been a member of the Stanford law faculty since 2001 with a courtesy appointment in the Sociology Department. She is the director of Stanford University’s joint JD/PhD program in law and sociology. Her primary research interest in the social, legal, and political history of the U.S. welfare state. Her forthcoming book, The Sympathetic State (Chicago Press) recounts the relationship between the history of disaster relief and the social security and relief Michele Landis Dauber programs of the New Deal. She has also written about abortion clinic Professor of Law & Sociology, Stanford University conflict, affirmative action, and the history of administrative law. Most recently, she wrote The Big Muddy, 57 Stan. L. Rev. 1899 (2005), a critique of UCLA Professor Richard Sander’s argument for curtailing affirmative action for African American law students. Grace Carroll Dr. Grace Carroll received her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from Stanford University where she also received two Master of Arts degrees (Sociology and Education) and her Ph.D. in Sociology of Education. She has over thirty years experience in research, assessment, training, and program development with an emphasis in sociology of education, evaluation, and diversity. She has published various research articles and technical reports in her areas of expertise. Her book, ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS AND AFRICAN AMERICANS: THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOON (Praeger, 1998), is a collection of psychosociological empirical research inquires she has conducted which focuses on race as a stress factor and effective coping strategies. PAGE 9 THE NATIONAL BLACK LAW JOURNAL ~ UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW Agenda 8:30 a.m. 9:30 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast Welcome and Introductions Michael H. Schill, Dean, UCLA School of Law Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Professor, UCLA and Columbia Schools of Law 10:00am Panel: “A Closing Door: Admissions and Access in Legal Education” Grace Carroll, Educational Consultant Christine Chambers Goodman, Professor, Pepperdine University School of Law Jerry Kang, Professor, UCLA School of Law Luke Harris, Professor of Law and Political Science, Vassar College Kimberly West-Faulcon, Professor, Loyola Law School Moderated by: Nikki Brown (‘07) Admission to legal educational institutions has been a subject of contestation for AfricanAmericans and other disaffected groups in the United States. Indeed, pre-Brown v. Board of Education litigation strategies focused upon the racially exclusionary practices of legal educational institutions such as the University of Maryland and the University of Texas. Today, admissions to law schools across the country are no less contested. This panel will address the responsibility of legal institutions to underrepresented communities and critique the current conceptualizations of merit that operate as gatekeepers to legal educational opportunities and perpetuate racial disparities in the admissions process. Panelists will not only discuss prevailing conceptualizations of the usefulness of affirmative action in creating a diverse student body in the context and timeframe announced in Grutter v. Bollinger, but also whether affirmative action may be deployed to combat current discrimination which results from implicit bias. 11:30am 12:30pm Lunch Derrick Bell, Professor, NYU School of Law Keynote Address 1:45pm Panel: “The Ins and Outs of Law School: Does Institutional Environment Impact Student Outcomes?” Richard Brooks, Professor, Yale School of Law Meera Deo, Researcher, Educational Diversity Project Cheryl I. Harris, Professor, UCLA School of Law Valerie Purdie-Vaughns, Professor of Psychology, Yale University REGRESSION ANAYLSIS: THE STATUS OF AFRICAN AMERICANS IN AMERICAN LEGAL EDUCATION PAGE 10 Erika Woods, Attorney, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law Moderated by: Kendra Fox Davis (‘06) Although the Supreme Court recently affirmed the constitutionality of affirmative action programs in legal education in Grutter v. Bollinger, the debate regarding its efficacy continues. The focus of this debate has turned to educational outcomes of African-American law students and whether or not African Americans are well served by the continued existence of the affirmative action. Panelists will interrogate the various assertions and assumptions related to and embedded within this discussion. Panelists will analyze the various facets and variables within legal education that impact African-American achievement in law school and in the profession. Some key questions that the panelists will shed light on are: • Has American legal education ever fully integrated the African-American experience into the classroom? • What impact do social attitudes on race have on educational outcomes? • What is the role of stereotypes of black intellectual deficits in shaping the institutional environment? • What is the impact of phenomena such as “stereotype threat” on the educational out comes of African Americans? • How does the institutional environment of American law schools affect the achievement of African-American law students? 3:30pm Panel: “Beyond the Classroom: African-American Attorneys in the Community and in the Profession” Devon Carbado, Professor, UCLA School of Law Jaribu Hill, Executive Director, Mississippi Workers’ Center for Human Rights Michelle Landis Dauber, Professor, Stanford Law School Angela Reddock, Attorney, The Reddock Law Group Moderated by: George Turner (‘07) African-American attorneys have and continue to play a decisive role in the shaping and development of African-American community progress through participation in public and private sectors. This panel will explore the ways in which individual African Americans benefit from access to legal education and how such benefits extend to the larger African-American community. In addition, panelists will discuss emerging challenges within the field of law for African-American attorneys and strategies to overcome such challenges. 5:00pm Reception Made possible by a generous gift from Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP PAGE 11 THE NATIONAL BLACK LAW JOURNAL ~ UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW Sponsors Please insert Arnold & Porter ad UCLA School of Law UCLA Critical Race Studies Program Foley & Lardner LLP Shearman & Sterling LLP UCLA Bunche Center for African American Studies The CAPAA Research Project The Campus Programs Committee of the Program Activities Board REGRESSION ANAYLSIS: THE STATUS OF AFRICAN AMERICANS IN AMERICAN LEGAL EDUCATION PAGE 12 Please Insert Sidley Austin Brown Ad PAGE 13 THE NATIONAL BLACK LAW JOURNAL ~ UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW Brief History of the NBLJ~UCLA The National Black Law Journal has been committed to scholarly discourse exploring the intersection of race and the law for thirty-five years. The NBLJ was started in 1970 by 5 African-American law students and 2 African-American law professors. The Journal was the first of its kind in the country. Because of the drop in African-American students at UCLA School of Law after the passage of proposition 209, the journal was sent to Columbia where publication could be continued. In the 2004-2005 academic year, there was a concerted effort to revitalize the Journal. Consisting primarily of 1L’s, the group was successful in its attempts to have the journal published, once again, at UCLA School of Law. Now, with almost the same number of students and faculty members that created the Journal in 1970, the National Black Law Journal is back at UCLA School of Law, and this time, for good! To quote our current editor, “This symposium a product of our solemn commitment to addressing issues that affect the African-American community and our fervent desire to produce both innovative and impeccable scholarship.” Subscription Information One of the Journals founding editors noted that it was important that there be a forum for providing a theoretical framework for practical daily application of Black legal ideas and concepts. The Journal has aimed to build on this tradition by publishing articles that make a substantive contribution to current dialogue taking place around issues such as affirmative action, employment law, the criminal justice system, community development, and labor issues. The Journal has a commitment to publish articles that inspire new thought, explore new alternatives and contribute to current jurisprudential stances. It is a student-run organization that publishes two issues each year with hundreds of subscribers worldwide. The NBLJ publishes articles, book reviews, essays, and student-written comments covering a broad range of legal topics. The papers presented at this Symposium will be published in Spring 2006 issue of the National Black Law Journal. To order this issue and/or future issues of the National Black Law Journal, please fill out this form below and you will be added to our mailing listserve. Name The National Black Law Journal Address Please tear along the line and return this form to the registration desk or send to: The National Black Law Journal UCLA School of Law 405 Hilgard Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90095-1476 For more information: Phone E-mail www.law.ucla.edu/nblj E-mail: nblj@lawnet.ucla.edu REGRESSION ANAYLSIS: THE STATUS OF AFRICAN AMERICANS IN AMERICAN LEGAL EDUCATION PAGE 14 Honorary Board Members Walter R. Allen Allan Murray Cartler Professor UCLA, Graduate School of Education and Information Studies Richard Alarcon Senator State of California Michael Avery President National Lawyers Guild Yvonne B. Burke Supervisor Los Angeles County, Board of Superviors Devon Carbado Professor UCLA School of Law Tony Cárdenas Councilmember City of Los Angeles Judy Chu Assemblymember State of California Kimberlé Crenshaw Professor UCLA School of Law Rocky Delgadillo City Attorney City of Los Angeles Winston C. Doby Vice President, Student Affairs University of California Office of the President Michael S. Dukakis Former Governor State of Massachusetts Dianne Feinstein Senator US Senate John C. Gamboa Executive Director The Greenlining Institute Robert L. Gnaizda Policy Director & General Counsel The Greenlining Institute Neil Gotanda Professor Western State University College of Law Cheryl Harris Professor UCLA School of Law Jerome E. Horton Assemblymember State of California Darnel Hunt Director Bunche Center for AfricanAmerican Studies Carol J. Liu Assemblymember State of California George Lipsitz Professor UC Santa Barbara, Department of Black Studies Juanita Millender-McDonald Congresswoman US House of Representatives Claudia Mitchell-Kernan Vice Chancellor & Dean UCLA Graduate Studies & the Graduate Division Gloria Molina Supervisor Los Angeles County, Board of Supervisors Bernard Parks Councilmember City of Los Angeles Eva Patterson President Equal Justice Society LaTonya Rease-Miles Director McNair Program at UCLA Mark Ridley-Thomas Assemblymember State of California Theodore M. Shaw President & Director-Counsel NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. Anthony J. Tolbert Lecturer & Associate Director UCLA School of Law & UCLA Academic Outreach Resource Center John Trasviña Senior Vice President for Law and Policy Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund Leo Trujillo-Cox, J.D. Executive Director UCLA Academic Outreach Resource Center Richard Yarborough Professor UCLA, Department of English