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WITH LIBERTY AND
JUSTICE FOR ALL: Community
Workshop Friday, February 29 9:00 – 9:30 a.m.: Breakfast & CLE Registration
9:30 – 9:45: Opening Remarks
9:45 – 11:15: Panel 1
11:15 – 11:30: Coffee Break 11:30 – 12:30: Keynote Address Jamin Raskin, American University Washington College of Law 12:30 – 1:30: Lunch Break
1:30 – 2:45: Panel 2
Speakers: 2:45 – 3:00: Coffee Break
3:00 – 4:15: Panel 3 Moderator: Haeyoung Yoon, New York University School of Law
Speakers:
Saturday, March 1 • 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. Putting Theory into Practice: Organizing for Change Keynote Speaker: Lunch will be provided for participants in the Saturday session. For more information contact: Please take a few minutes to complete The Immigrant Voting Project Community Survey, which is about immigrants and voting. The survey is designed to gather information about immigrant communities in New York City. What are the main issues facing immigrants? How well does local government provide services? How would noncitizen voting rights in local elections affect New York City politics? You can access the survey, which is confidential and anonymous, at www.immigrantvoting.org. If you wish to receive paper copies of the survey, please send an email request to info@immigrantvoting.org or call 212-220-1246. We will send you a copy (or multiple copies) and a return envelope.
SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES Panel 1: Constitutional Borderlands and the Meaning of Citizenship
Moderator: Cristina Rodriguez, New York University School of Law Cristina Rodríguez joined the faculty as Assistant Professor of Law in 2004 and became Associate Professor of Law in 2007. She recently completed a series of pieces concerning language rights and language policy in the United States and around the world. In Language and Participation, she tackles the question of whether growing multilingualism in the United States imperils the future of American democracy. She offers a theory of multilingualism that emphasizes its relationship to participation in democratic and social institutions. In Language in the Workplace, she studies the phenomenon of English-only rules imposed by employers on employees and considers their effects on the social dynamics of the workplace and on freedom of association more generally. Currently, she is working on a series of papers grappling with how the constitutional and statutory law governing immigration contributes to the management of the processes of integration and social change implicated by large-scale immigration.
Michele Wucker, World Policy Institute
Michele
Wucker, Executive Director of the World Policy
Institute. She is author of LOCKOUT: Why America Keeps
Getting Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity Depends on Getting It
Right (Public Affairs 2006/paperback 2007;
a Washington Post Book World "Best Nonfiction of 2006"
Selection) and
Why The Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians and the Struggle For
Hispaniola (FSG/Hill & Wang, 1999). She received a 2007
Guggenheim Fellowship for her ongoing work on changing views of
citizenship, exclusion, and belonging. In addition, Ms. Wucker
is co-founder of the
Immigrant Voting Project and a research fellow at the
Immigration Policy Center. Ms. Wucker lectures frequently about
immigration, cross-cultural conflict and conciliation, and Caribbean
politics. Formerly Latin America bureau chief for
International Financing Review, she has
written for many U.S. and Latin American publications including
The American Prospect,
Internationale Politik, Newsday, Project Syndicate, The New York
Times, The Texas Observer, Valor Economico, The Washington Post,
and World Policy Journal.
Ms. Wucker appears frequently on MSNBC as a commentator on
immigration, and has been a source for major U.S. and international
media including The New York Times, The Boston Globe,
Reuters, CNN, CNBC, National Public Radio and Public Radio
International. She is a graduate of Rice University and of
Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs. Elizabeth R. OuYang, New York University School of Law Professor OuYang has been a practicing civil rights attorney for over 20 years with expertise in voting, immigration and other civil rights areas. Ms. OuYang teaches a pre-law course on the constitution and communities of color at New York University and Columbia University. This spring, Ms. OuYang is teaching "Asian American Jurisprudence" at NYU School of Law. Under the Clinton Administration, she served as a special assistant to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Ms. OuYang helped to prepare for the Commission's fact finding hearings in Florida following allegations of voter irregularities during the 2000 Presidential election. As a staff attorney with the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund, she served as the coordinator of the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium's voting rights project. Ms. OuYang has brought a successful voting rights challenge in school board elections, preserved the Asian American community in Sunset Park and Manhattan's Chinatown as a community of interest belonging to Congresssional District 12, and advocated successfully for the passage of Section 203, the bilingual provisions of the Voting Rights Act in 1992 and the reauthorization of the Voting Rights Act in 2006. As a private attorney, Ms. OuYang has represented numerous clients obtain permanent residence under the 1986 "amnesty" law, conducted legal advice clinics on special registration, and handled family petitions and political asylum claims.
Peter J. Spiro, Charles R. Weiner Professor of Law, Temple Law School Peter J. Spiro joined the Temple Law School faculty in Fall 2006 as the inaugural holder of Charles R. Weiner Professorship in international law. Before coming to Temple, Professor Spiro was the Rusk Professor of Law at the University of Georgia Law School, where he also served as Associate Dean for Faculty Development. A former law clerk to Justice David H. Souter of the U.S. Supreme Court, Spiro specializes in international law, the constitutional aspects of U.S. foreign relations, and immigration and nationality law. Spiro's book, Beyond Citizenship: American Identity After Globalization, will be published by Oxford University Press in December 2007. In 2003, Professor Spiro was ranked in the top 20 nationally in a survey of academic citation frequency among junior legal scholars. He has contributed commentary to such publications as Foreign Affairs, The Wall Street Journal, and The New Republic. Spiro is a frequent speaker in academic and policy forums on dual citizenship, the interaction of federal states with the international system and the role of non-governmental organizations in international institutions. He also writes for the leading international law blog, Opinio Juris.
Rogers M. Smith,
Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Political Science,
University of Pennsylvania
Panel 2: The
American Demos: Defining the Body Politic Ms. Pérez works on a variety of voting rights related issues, including the Brennan Center's efforts to restore the vote to people with felony convictions. Prior to joining the Center, Ms. Pérez was the Civil Rights Fellow at Relman & Associates, a civil rights law firm in Washington, D.C. Ms. Pérez graduated from Columbia Law School in 2003, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar and a Lowenstein Public Interest Fellow. Following law school, Ms. Pérez clerked for the Honorable Anita B. Brody of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and for the Honorable Julio M. Fuentes of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Ms. Pérez earned her undergraduate degree in Political Science from Yale University in 1996. She obtained a masters degree in public policy from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in 1998, where she was the recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Public Service. Prior to law school, she was a policy analyst for the United States General Accounting Office and covered a range of issues including housing and health care.
Stuart Comstock-Gay,
Director of Demos' Democracy Program, and Executive Director of the
National Voting Rights Institute
Panel 3: Next Steps: Towards a Vision of an Inclusive Democracy Haeyoung Yoon, New York University School of Law Haeyoung Yoon, staff attorney with the Community Development Project of the Urban Justice Center on their defense of Egyptian Ehab Elmaghraby and Pakistani immigrant Javaid Iqbal and Rachel Meeropol, attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights on their class action suit accusing the Bush administration of targeting non-citizens for investigation into potential ties to terrorism Ron Hayduk, The Immigrant Voting Project Ron Hayduk is Associate Professor of political science at Borough of Manhattan Community College and co-Director of the Immigrant Voting Project. Hayduk is the author of Democracy for All: Restoring Immigrant Voting Rights in the United States (Routledge, 2006) He has written about political participation, immigration, race, and public policy. He is also author of Gatekeepers to the Franchise: Shaping Election Administration in New York (Northern Illinois University Press, 2005), co-editor of Democracy’s Moment: Reforming the American Political System in the Twenty First Century (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002); and co-editor of From ACT UP to the WTO: Urban Protest and Community Building in the Era of Globalization (Verso, 2002). His articles include: “Non-Citizen Voting: Pipe Dream or Possibility” Drum Major Institute for Public Policy. (2002); "Democracy for All: Restoring Immigrant Voting Rights in the U.S. New Political Science: A Journal of Politics and Culture. Vol. 26, #4. December, 2004. Hayduk also contributed essays in: Surviving Sprawl: Culture, Ecology and Politics (Rowman & Littlefield, 2003); Teamsters and Turtles?: U.S. Progressive Political Movements in the 21st Century (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003); and In Defense of the Alien (Center for Migration Studies, 2000). Hayduk has consulted to several policy organizations, including Demos, The Aspen Institute Roundtable on Race, The Century Foundation, and the NAACPLDEF. He has also served in government, including as the director of the New York City Voter Assistance Commission. His website is www.ronhayduk.com.
Chung-Wha Hong, New York Immigration Coalition Thousands of immigrants didn’t just decide to stage mass protests against Congress’s proposed immigration restrictions; one organization took the lead in getting them there. The New York Immigration Coalition is starting to thrive by taking on the daunting task of pulling together the city’s dozens of ethnic communities into one political force. Through its member organizations, the coalition has ties to political leadership in every corner and constituency of the city, and it has made its mark under new director Hong by lobbying with as much skill as it brings to organizing street protests. NYIC is an umbrella advocacy organization made up of over 200 groups throughout the state that work with immigrant and refugee communities. As the coordinating body for organizations that serve one of the largest and most diverse newcomer populations in the United States, the NYIC has become a leading advocate for immigrant communities on the local, state, and national levels. The NYIC’s membership includes grassroots community organizations, not-for-profit health and human services organizations, religious and academic institutions, labor unions, and legal, social, and economic justice organizations. With its multi-ethnic, multi-racial, and multi-sector base, the NYIC provides both a forum for immigrant groups to share their concerns and a vehicle for collective action to address these concerns. Muzaffar Chishti, Migration Policy Institute Muzaffar Chishti, a lawyer, is director of MPI’s office at New York University School of Law. His workfocuses on US immigration policy, the intersection of labor and immigration law, civil liberties, and immigrant integration. Prior to joining MPI, Mr. Chishti was Director of the Immigration Project of the Union of Needletrades, Industrial & Textile Employees (UNITE). Mr. Chishti currently serves on the Boards of Directors of the National Immigration Law Center, the New York Immigration Coalition, and the Asian American Federation of New York. He has served as Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Immigration Forum, and as a member of the Coordinating Committee on Immigration of the American Bar Association. Mr. Chishti has testified extensively on immigration policy issues before various Congressional committees. In 1992, as part of a US team, he assisted the Russian Parliament in drafting its legislation on forced migrants and refugees. He is a 1994 recipient of New York State Governor's Award for Outstanding Asian Americans, and a 1995 recipient of the Ellis Island Medal of Honor. Mr. Chishti was educated at St. Stephen's College, Delhi; the University of Delhi; Cornell Law School; and the Columbia School of International Affairs
Photo I.D. required for entry. Hosted by the National Lawyers Guild of New York University, NYU Law Students for Human Rights, NYU School of Law, and co-sponsored by National Coalition to Expand Voting Rights, the Immigrant Voting Project, and World Policy Institute
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