I Can’t Breathe: an online conversation on George Floyd, racial unrest (01:32)
On June 4, 2020, Prof. H.T. Smith was one of the experts selected to participate in the campus-wide online conversation about the killing of George Floyd and the social and legal issues involved. The event was moderated by FIU Law alum and NBC news anchor Willard Shepard. Read the FIU News coverage at this page.
ABA Panel: Activate Diversity (02:02)
Professor Phyllis Kotey moderated the ABA Panel “Activate Diversity: Pathways to Equal Justice” in January 2021. This panel examined pathways to justice from a variety of perspectives in an effort to create equitable solutions to reform criminal justice and to eliminate the disparate impact on communities of color.
The Color of Creatorship: Intellectual Property, Race, and the Making of Americans (02:02)
Prof. Janewa Osei-Tutu was one of three panelists chosen for the March 2021 New England Law Review Symposium. The round-table discussion examined racial structures underpinning IP issues and how advocates can address inequitable copyright, patent, and trademark policy.
I'm Not a Virus: A Teach-In on Anti-Asian & Asian American Racism (02:46)
Prof. Choudhury's presentation, "The Shared Stories and Different Experiences of South Asian and Asian Americans" was shared in this March 30, 2021, program. She is quoted by PantherNow news as follows: “The [model minority myth] is a fiction that does a lot of work to obscure the real discrimination that happens against Asians, ... It does not benefit us to promote ourselves as the model minority." Prof. Choudhury described how the idea of the model minority feeds racial discrimination.
The [Derek Chauvin] Verdict is In, Now What? with Professors Hannah Gorman and Phyllis Kotey (01:33)
Hannah Gorman, Director of the Balanced Justice Project, and a research scholar based at the Florida Center for Capital Representation at Florida International University’s College of Law and Phyllis Diane Kotey, Director of the Externship and Pro Bono Program and Clinical Professor of Law discussed the ramifications of the Derek Chauvin guilty verdict in the murder of GeorgeFloyd. Moderator: Jeff McNamee, MPAS - Associate Director in the FIU Office of Student Affairs.