Upcoming Events
Expecting Inequity: Race, Class, and Reproductive Justice
The Gibson-Banks Center for Race and the Law and the Law & Health Care Program at University of Maryland Carey School of Law invite you to join us on November 14, 2024, at 4:30 p.m. as we welcome Khiara M. Bridges, Professor of Law, UC Berkeley School of Law as a distinguished speaker in the 2024/2025 Rothenberg Speaker Series. Professor Bridges' talk is titled "Expecting Inequity: Race, Class, and Reproductive Justice."
Professor Bridges has written many articles concerning race, class, reproductive rights, and the intersection of the three. Her scholarship has appeared in the Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, the Columbia Law Review, the California Law Review, the NYU Law Review, and the Virginia Law Review, among others. She is also the author of three books: Reproducing Race: An Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization (2011), The Poverty of Privacy Rights (2017), and Critical Race Theory: A Primer (2019). She is a coeditor of a reproductive justice book series that is published under the imprint of the University of California Press. She is currently writing her forthcoming book, Expecting Inequity: Race, Class, and Reproductive Justice.
This event is free, but registration is required. You will receive information on how to access the event in a separate email 48 hours before the webinar begins. If you have questions, please contact Gehan Girguis at ggirguis@law.umaryland.edu. This event will be recorded.
Leadership
(From left to right: Larry Gibson, Renée Hutchins Laurent, Taunya Lovell Banks, and Michael Pinard on the occasion of the fall 2023 launch of the Gibson-Banks Center on Race and the Law)
Renée Hutchins Laurent, the Dean of Maryland Carey Law, is a leading expert in the United States on the Fourth Amendment. Her scholarship has focused on various ways in which race intersects with the Fourth Amendment, including racial profiling and stop-and-frisk.
Michael Pinard, the Francis & Harriet Iglehart Professor of Law, is a national leader on issues related to race and the criminal legal system. He is the intellectual and visionary lead behind the law school’s efforts to create the Gibson-Banks Center.
Larry Gibson, the Morton & Sophia Macht Professor of Law, is a legal historian who has written one of the definitive biographies of Thurgood Marshall and will soon release a second book about Justice Marshall. He teaches seminars on Thurgood Marshall and race and the law. He has curated several exhibits on the history of Black lawyers in Maryland. In 1974, Gibson became the first Black man to become a tenured professor at Maryland Carey Law. He has indeed demonstrated strong leadership both within and outside of the law school.
Taunya Lovell Banks, Jacob A. France Professor of Equality Jurisprudence, taught her final class at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law in fall 2021. The legendary critical race theory scholar and first tenured Black woman on the law school faculty retired after an illustrious career in which she trained her sharp scholarship on exposing systemic sexism and racism and inspired generations of students and colleagues to dedicate their legal careers to the fight for social justice.
Monique L. Dixon, Executive Director, Gibson-Banks Center for Race and the Law, is responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of and strategic planning for the Gibson-Banks Center. She joined the Center after serving as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights.
Teresa Christian, Paralegal, Gibson-Banks Center for Race and the Law, provides paralegal services and programmatic support to the Center.
Brandon Miller, Erek L. Baron Fellow, serves as a student fellow at the Gibson-Banks Center for Race and the Law.