6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
Hernandez at 50 Conference Reception and Buffet Dinner

7:00 p.m.
Remarks by Director Paul Espinosa and Screening of THE LEMON GROVE INCIDENT

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Friday, November 19, 2004
All Conference sessions will be held in the Hendricks Heritage Room, second floor, UH Law Center

8:00 a.m.-8:40 a.m.
Registration and coffee service

8:40 a.m.-9:00 a.m.
Welcome and Introduction
Professor Michael A. Olivas
Dean Nancy B. Rapoport

9:00 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
Panel I:
Ian Haney Lopez, "Race and Colorblindness after Hernandez and Brown."

Kevin Johnson, "Hernandez v. Texas: Legacies of Justice and Injustice"

Juan Perea, "Race through the Looking-Glass"

Moderator:

10:30 a.m.-10:45a.m.
Break

10:45 a.m.-12:15 p.m.
Panel II:
Steven H. Wilson, “Still ‘White’ After All These Years: Mexican Americans and the Politics of Racial Classification in the Federal Judicial Bureaucracy, Twenty-Five years after Hernandez v. Texas.”

Amilcar Shabazz, “Complicating the Black-White Binary: Mexican American & African American Identity Formation and Civil Rights Litigation”

Neil Foley, "The History of Minority Legal Organizations in Hernandez"

Moderator:

12:15 p.m.-1:15 p.m.
Luncheon
Frankel Rare Books Room, second floor, UH Law Center

1:30 p.m.-3:00 p.m.
Panel III:
Sandra Guerra Thompson, "The Non-Discrimination Ideal of Hernandez v. Texas Confronts a "Culture" of Discrimination: The Amazing Story of Miller-El v. Texas"

Clare Sheridan, "Peremptory Challenges: Lessons from Hernandez v. Texas."

George Martinez, "The new version of Hernandez v TX: The Exclusion of Minorities from the Class Action Device"

Moderator:

3:00 p.m.-3:15 p.m.
Break

3:15 p.m.-4:45p.m.
Panel IV:

Laura Gomez, "Off-White in an Age of White Supremacy: Mexican Elites and the Rights of Indians and Blacks in Nineteenth-Century New Mexico"

Thomas D. Russell, "The First Adoption of Standardized Testing at the University of Texas"

Richard Delgado, “Hernandez—Cause for Celebration?”

Moderator

4:45 p.m.-5:30 p.m.
All Authors Panel

6:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m.
Reception and dinner (tickets required)
UH Hilton, Second Floor

8:00 p.m.
Sanchez Lecture, Hon. James deAnda