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APALC seeks a full-time Voter Mobilization Coordinator to start immediately. This is a new position in APALC’s Voting Rights Project, helping launch a groundbreaking effort to reach and mobilize Asian American voters in Los Angeles County during the June and November 2006 elections. The Voter Mobilization Coordinator will support a voter mobilization network comprised of local Asian American community organizations and will have primary responsibility for recruiting and coordinating volunteers for voter outreach, including a phone bank. The Coordinator will work under the supervision of the Voting Rights Project Staff Attorney. This temporary position is available immediately and will end on November 17, 2006.
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UCLA
School of Law’s
LAW FIRM DIVERSITY RECEPTION
Monday, March 13, 2006, 5:00-7:00 p.m.
UCLA Faculty
Center
Please encourage your 1L, 2L and 3L members to join us for this event. This is a great venue at which to meet diverse lawyers from various law firms and learn about their experiences. This is also an excellent opportunity to begin to learn about the firms and to demystify the fall interviewing process.
Please note that law firm participants are being charged for their presence at this event with
net proceeds going to assist the Law Fellows Program in its continuing efforts to promote diversity within the legal community.
More information regarding firm participants will be forwarded to you.
**Feel free to contact anyone in OCS or the Law Fellows Program if you have questions or would like further information.
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From: Jose Tello <JTello@nls-la.org>
Date: Feb 7, 2006 4:26 PM
Subject: Funding for Summer Internship Opportunity
To: jerryjen78@gmail.com, lorenalung@gmail.com, rkaye26@gmail.com, rupashah@gmail.com, shirwinhu@gmail.com, chen2008@lawnet.ucla.edu, du2007@lawnet.ucla.edu,
KEANE2006@lawnet.ucla.edu, ngiam2007@lawnet.ucla.edu, mbt@ucla.edu , andreaic@usc.edu, ankaplan@usc.edu, anyenhu@usc.edu, apetas@usc.edu, audreysh@usc.edu, bsmiller@usc.edu, dboo@usc.edu, digiulio@usc.edu, elizabbk@usc.edu , esung@usc.edu, graceapa@usc.edu, jcerrill@usc.edu, jesseche@usc.edu , kamcpher@usc.edu
, lisalin@usc.edu, malm@usc.edu, medelman@usc.edu, mhchiang@usc.edu, srackoff@usc.edu, toczylow@usc.edu, tsteen@usc.edu, zhen@usc.edu , anjel781@yahoo.com, drealnhs2000@yahoo.com, glorialabbad@yahoo.com, jaysuen79@yahoo.com, yuchin8426@yahoo.com.tw
Hello everyone,
I hope all of you are doing well.
I wanted to let you know that if you are looking for funding for a summer internship, you should look at the Dan Bradley fellowships offered by the Legal Aid Association of California. You can find out more information at
www.calegaladvocates.org. If you have any questions, feel free to call me at (626) 307-3645. Thanks.
José
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invited to the
California Asian Pacific Islander Policy Summit & Dinner
Partnering for Community Empowerment
February 28th - March 1st, 2006
Sheraton Grand Hotel - Sacramento, California
Convened by the California Asian Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus
In partnership with
Asian Americans for Civil Rights and Equality (AACRE)
Asian and Pacific Islanders' California Action Network (APIsCAN)
Asian Pacific State Employees Association (APSEA)
California Asian Pacific Islander Legislative Caucus Institute
Commission on Asian and Pacific Islander American Affairs (CAPIAA)
At this exciting two day summit:
* Learn about 2006 budget and legislative proposals impacting APIs
* Participate in a joint hearing of the API Caucus and APIA
Commission to learn about emerging issues and provide public testimony
on issues of concern to you
* Build networks with advocates and community leaders from around the
state
* Advance your career through leadership and professional development
workshops
* Refine your advocacy skills and participate in Capitol legislative
visits to share API priorities with legislators
To download registration packet, go to
http://democrats.assembly.ca.gov/apilegcaucus/
<http://democrats.assembly.ca.gov/apilegcaucus/>
For more information, please contact the API Legislative Caucus -
Pam Chueh at 916-319-3686 or pam.chueh@asm.ca.gov
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Save the Date: Monday, February 13; 4:30-6:00pm, Room 1347
Please join the American Constitution Society, the Evan Frankel Environmental Law and Policy Program, the Federalist Society, and the Office of Public Interest Programs for a debate on eminent domain between Professor Nicole Garnett (Notre Dame) and Professor Michael Heller (Columbia), moderated by Dean Michael Schill.
Kelo v. New London, one of the most contentious Supreme Court rulings of recent vintage, held that the use of eminent domain for economic development alone - even when land is turned over to a private entity - satisfies the Public Use requirement of the Fifth Amendment. This has raised questions about the future of property rights and community development.
Professors Garnett and Heller will present their perspectives on this topic, followed by commentary by Dean Schill and a moderated audience Q&A session.
MCLE Credit will be available and a catered reception will follow the debate.
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the Asian Pacific Coalition and the Vietnamese Student Union present,
in conjunction with Anti-Defamation League, Asian Pacific American Legal Center, Human Rights Watch, LA Gay & Lesbian Center, Muslim Public Affairs Council, Office of Residential Life, and South Asian Network
Where is the Love 3
It Takes a Village
a hate crimes awareness event
Tuesday, February 7th, 2006
Bruin Plaza 11:30am - 2:00pm
De Neve Auditorium 6:30 - 8:00pm
Featuring guests:
EX-NEO NAZI
SKIM, spoken word artist, winner of Kollaboration
MANDLA KAYISE, Black Alumni Association President
TRIET VO, UCLA alum and survivor of a hate attack
Crimes motivated by race, gender, and sexual orientation happen more than we might realize. Why do these attacks against our community continue to happen in our supposedly liberal, tolerant society? Come join us in an eye-opening event that will look at how hate crimes can hit closer to home than we ever expected. Where is the love? Join the search.
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Two Upcoming Talks on Pilipino Labor, Organizing, and Cinema
Wednesday, February 8, 2006
12:15-1:30
Location: Campbell Hall 3232, UCLA
Cost: Free and open to the public.
"U.S. Filipino Organizing and Contemporary Workers’ Struggles in the Philippines"
Guest Speaker: Kuusela Hilo of Habi Arts, an LA-based organization that seeks to promote political and artistic empowerment to inspire and mobilize people for progressive social change.
With a screening of
Sa Ngalan Ng Tubo (In the Name of Sugar/Profit), a film by Tudla Media Collective. This film portrays the events that led to the violent loss of seven striking workers and union leader in Tarlac, Philippines.
Contact: L. Burns, lmburns@ucla.edu, (310) 825-0198Wednesday, February 22, 2006
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA
Cost: Free and open to the public.
"Globalized Domestic Work and Female Representation in Contemporary Women's Films in the Philippines"
A Distinguished Visitor Lecture by Professor Roland B. Tolentino, University of the Philippines Film Institute
The impetus for Philippine national development rests on the export of its laborers. This massive export that continues to increase through the years sustains Philippine development. Films as cultural artifacts of nationhood provide a dialog to and critique of the economic and political impetus of national development. This lecture will first map out the context of labor export in the Philippines, then proceed to analyze, in particular, globalized domestic work that emplaces the overseas Filipina domestic worker as a central figure in national development. It then turns to the subgenre in film on the overseas contract worker and locates its development within female and feminist filmmaking in the Philippines.
Roland B. Tolentino is an Associate Professor at the University of the Philippines Film Institute, College of Mass Communication and in 2005-06, a Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore. He completed his Ph.D. in Film, Literature and Culture at the University of Southern California. His publications include co-editor, Transglobal Economies and Cultures: Contemporary Japan and Southeast Asia (2004), National/Transnational: Subject Formation and Media in and on the Philippines (2001), Sa loob at labas ng mall kong sawi/kaliluha’y siyang nangyayaring hari: Ang Pagkatuto at Pagtatanghal ng Kulturang Popular [Inside and outside my shattered mall/confusion reigns supreme: pedagogy and performance of popular culture] (2001), and Richard Gomez at ang Mito ng Pagkalalake, Sharon Cuneta at ang Perpetwal na Birhen at iba pang sanaysay hinggil sa bida sa pelikula bilang kultural na texto [Richard Gomez and the Masculine Myth, Sharon Cuneta and the Perpetual Virgin and other essays on film stars as cultural texts] (2000) which was the Winner of the Best Film Criticism Book, Manila Critics Circle, September 2001.
For more information please contact
Posted by: Center for Southeast Asian Studies?www.international.ucla.edu/cseas/
Sponsor(s): Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Asian American Studies
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2. AAJC Demands that CBS Reprimands Radio Host for Mocking Asian Americans
Washington, DC, Jan. 27, 2006 – The Asian American Justice Center (AAJC) today expressed outrage over the insensitive and racist segment in the Jan. 24 radio show of Adam Carolla mocking the Asian Excellence Awards which will be aired on AZN Television this Sunday, Jan. 29.
“Adam Carolla demeaned the work of Asian American actors, directors, and producers and perpetuated the stereotype of Asian Americans as foreigners,” said Karen K. Narasaki, president and execu! tive director of the Asian American Justice Center (AAJC). “Unless Adam Carolla is strongly reprimanded, and the station and CBS Radio apologize, we will be forced to ask advertisers to withdraw their support of his show.”
The Adam Carolla Show, aired through CBS Radio’s 97.1 Free FM (KLSX-FM) in Los Angeles, referred to the Asian Excellence Awards as a joke and repeatedly used the sounds “ching-chong” in recreating a segment of the awards which were actually done in English. The Adam Carolla Show is aired in 10 West Coast cities that have the largest Asian American populations in the U.S.
The Asian (AX) Excellence Awards honors Asian Americans in media who have made a difference in the United States. The awards will also pay a special tribute to the late actor, Pat Morita.
AAJC is encouraging people to call or email the following CBS Radio executives:
· Dana L. McClintock, senior vice president, CBS Communications Group, tel: 212-975-1077, email: dlmcclintock@cbs.com
AAJC’s affiliate, the Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California, and other organizations like the Korean American Coalition of Los Angeles, and the Media Action Network for Asian Americans have also criticized the Adam Carolla Show.
3. NAPABA Mourns Civil Rights Leader Coretta Scott King
NATIONAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION
910 17th St., N.W., Suite 315
Washington, D.C. 20006
For Immediate Release
Contact: Les Jin
January 31, 2006 (202) 775-9555
NAPABA Mourns Civil Rights Leader Coretta Scott King
Washington, D.C. – The National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) joins the nation in mourning the loss of Coretta Scot! t King, a beloved leader of the American civil rights movement and international peace and human rights activist. NAPABA honors Mrs. King and remembers the remarkable life she led as a dedicated wife, mother, and civil rights activist.
Mrs. King founded the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change as a memorial to her husband’s life and legacy after his assassination in 1968. In addition to her nationally significant contributions to civil rights through the work of the King Center, she helped found and ! lead dozens of civil rights organizations and coalitions on diverse issues including full employment, healthcare, religious freedom, and voter participation. She also gained recognition for her work with international peace and justice efforts.
“We mourn the loss of Coretta Scott King not only because of the ideals she represented, but also because of the concrete changes she made throughout her life that have made society better for all people of color,” remarked NAPABA President Amy Lin Meyerson. “Mrs. King remained at the heart of the civil rights movement all these years. She continued to fight for racial and economic ju! stice long after the nation’s attention faded. As many have noted, she truly was the matriarch of the civil rights movement, and she will be sorely missed.”
“Mrs. King saw civil rights beyond national borders,” commented NAPABA Executive Director Les Jin. “Her life-long dedication to peace, justice, and human rights had an impact around the world. Whether through her work on Soviet-U.S. relations, protesting South African apartheid, or her leadership in building coalitions for civil rights for all Americans here at home, Mrs. King’s vision of civil and human rights demanded we seek change wherever we see injustice.&nbs! p; We are all indebted to her work and decades of leadership.”
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The National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) is the national association of Asian Pacific American attorneys, judges, law professors and law students. NAPABA represents the interests of o! ver 40,000 attorneys and 47 local Asian Pacific American bar associations. Its members represent solo practitioners, large firm lawyers, corporate counsel, legal service and non-profit attorneys, and lawyers serving at all levels of government. NAPABA continues to be a leader in addressing civil rights issues confronting Asian Pacific American communities. Through its national network of committees and affiliates, NAPABA provides a strong voice for increased diversity of federal and state judiciaries, advocates for equal opportunity in the workplace, works to eliminate hate crimes and anti-immigrant sentiment, and promotes professional development of minorities in the legal profession.
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science
Screen Test
Why we should start measuring bias.
By Jay Dixit
Posted Thursday, Jan. 26, 2006, at 4:10 PM ET
"Everyone's a little bit racist sometimes," proclaims the Broadway musical Avenue Q. "Doesn't mean we go/ Around committing hate crimes/ Look around and you will find/ No one's really colorblind/ Mayb! e it's a fact/ We all should face/ Everyone makes judgments/ Based on race."
How do you test internal bias? You can try asking people, but since most of us don't like to think of ourselves as biased, we won't necessarily admit to it on a questionnaire, even anonymously. But there's a test to detect the kind of bias people won't admit to and may not even be aware of themselves—a test that works. The psychologists who devised it, however, are squeamish about real-world uses of it. They shouldn't be.. Though it shouldn't be used as the basis for hiring decisions, the test has its place.
In 2003, Mahzarin Banaji, Anthony G. Greenwald, and Brian Nosek published a paper detailing an experimental methodology they had developed called the Implicit Association Test, or IAT. Rather than asking subjects what they thought about different races (or what they thought they thought), Banaji and her colleagues decided to time them as they paired words and images.
In t! h! e test's most popular version, the Race IAT, subjects are shown a comp uter screen and asked to match positive words (love, wonderful, peace) or negative words (evil, horrible, failure) with faces of African-Americans or whites. Their responses are timed. If you tend to associate African-Americans with "bad" concepts, it will take you longer to group black faces with "good" concepts because you perceive them as incompatible. If you're consistently quicker at connecting positive words with whites and slower at connecting positive words with blacks—or quicker at connecting negative words with blacks and slower at connecting negative words with whites—you have an implicit bias for white faces over those of African-Americans. In other words, the time it takes you to pair the faces and words yields an empirical measure of your attitudes. (Click here for a more detailed description of the test.)
The elegance of Banaji's test is that it doesn't ! let you lie. What's being measured is merely the speed of each response. You might hate the idea of having a bias against African-Americans, but if it takes you significantly longer to group black faces with good concepts, there's no way you can hide it. You can't pretend to connect words and images faster any more than a sprinter can pretend to run faster. And you won't significantly change your score if you deliberately try to slow down your white = good and black = bad pairings.
Banaji, now a social psychologist at Harvard, has found that 88 percent of the white subjects who take her test show some bias against blacks. The majority of all subjects also test anti-gay, anti-elderly, and anti-Arab Muslim. Many people also exhibit bias against their own group: About half of blacks test anti-black; 36 percent of Arab Muslims test anti-Arab Muslim; and 38 percent of gays show an automatic preference for heterosexuals. (You can take the test yourself
here; the results can be deeply humbling.)
The IAT, then, is an objective measure of bias. And research has shown that the test is powerfully predictive of behavior—as Banaji notes in refuting critics' claims that the test measures not individual bias but awareness of bias within society. People with high racial bias scores are more likely to choose a white partner to work with and more willing to cut funding for minority student groups. They're also more likely to judge minority suspects guilty in ambiguous situations and assign longer prison sentences to suspects with minority names.
Yet the test's creators are extremely wary about unleashing the powerful tool they've created. Banaji has threatened to testify in court against efforts to use her test in real-world situations. Using the test to ferret out biased people, she argues, assumes that people who have high ! implicit bias scores will always behave in a biased way—which is not the case, since the tests don't predict behavior with 100 percent accuracy. Banaji also points out that some highly motivated subjects may be able to beat the test by focusing on "counter-stereotypes," for instance, by thinking about black heroes like Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela just before taking the test.
Banaji is right: The test isn't a perfect predictor, and it may be possible to beat it. Those are good reasons to limit the test's uses. But they don't justify never using it at all.
Consider juries. Since studies show that people with high bias scores judge minorities guiltier than whites, people who test as highly biased against minorities shouldn't serve on juries in cases involving minority defendants. It's standard for judges to strike prospective jurors who exhibit clear prejudice against a defendant; at the federal corruption trial of former Atlanta Mayor Bill Ca! mpbell,
one prospective juror was recently dismissed for writing in the questionnaire that he thought Campbell, who is African-American, should be "hung from the highest tree." Other jurors, however, don't volunteer their bias on questionnaires. Banaji's test would tell us who they are. Sure, not everyone who tests high for bias will actually judge the case before them in a biased way. But given the high stakes for the defendant—and the relatively low ones for a prospective juror—isn't it better to err on the side of keeping biased people out of the jury box?
A thornier question, though, is whether employers should use Banaji's test. Here the stakes are high on both sides. In a lot of jobs—judges, police officers, welfare officers, hiring managers, and others as well—biased people can do real harm. On the other hand, if a test shows an applicant is biased, but you have no evidence that he has actually discriminated against anyon! e, would it really be fair not to hire him? This is where the distinction between implicit bias and actual discrimination becomes most important. Since the test is not perfectly predictive of actual behavior, the risk of a false positive here is real. If you screen somebody out of a job who would not have actually behaved in a discriminatory manner, you've done them wrong.
Using the implicit bias test for employment screening, then, goes too far (and it's easy to imagine the legal challenges). But employers should be able to use the test to assess employees once they've been hired. Ideally, an employee's individual result would be revealed only to him or her (employers could get aggregate reports so they could better make decisions about how to reduce bias in the workplace). One reason to encourage employers to give the test is that, as Berkeley psychologist Jack Glaser points out, just taking it may sometimes be enough to convince people they are prejudiced! and should try to change. It's called "unconsciousness raising"—if you know what your unconscious is doing, you may work to override it.
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In the Race IAT, subjects are shown a computer screen. The left side of the screen says "White American or Good." The right side says "Black American or Bad." When images and words flash on the screen, the subject uses the keyboard to indicate whether each word or images goes left or right. When a white face appears, you click left. When an African-American face appears, you click right. When a "good" word like "peace" appears, you click left. When a "bad" word like "evil" appears, you click right. So far, so good.
But then the positions switch. Now the left side of the screen says "Black American or Good," and the right side says "White American or Bad." This is when many people start having trouble. They get confused. They make mistakes. When a word like "wonderful" comes up, it take! s them longer to correctly put it in the "Black American or Good" category. When a word like "failure" comes up, many people find it harder to group it with "White American or Bad." If that happens, it means you have an automatic preference—an implicit bias—for whites over African-Americans. Jay Dixit is a writer in New York. He has written for the New York Times and Rolling Stone.
Article URL: http://www.slate.com/id/2134921/
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Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive Co. LLC
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Two Upcoming Talks on Pilipino Labor, Organizing, and Cinema
Wednesday, February 8, 2006
12:15-1:30
Location: Campbell Hall 3232, UCLA
Cost: Free and open to the public.
"U.S. Filipino Organizing and Contemporary Workers’ Struggles in the Philippines"
Guest Speaker: Kuusela Hilo of Habi Arts, an LA-based organization that seeks to promote political and artistic empowerment to inspire and mobilize people for progressive social change.
With a screening of
Sa Ngalan Ng Tubo (In the Name of Sugar/Profit), a film by Tudla Media Collective. This film portrays the events that led to the violent loss of seven striking workers and union leader in Tarlac, Philippines.
Contact: L. Burns, lmburns@ucla.edu, (310) 825-0198Wednesday, February 22, 2006
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
10383 Bunche Hall, UCLA
Cost: Free and open to the public.
"Globalized Domestic Work and Female Representation in Contemporary Women's Films in the Philippines"
A Distinguished Visitor Lecture by Professor Roland B. Tolentino, University of the Philippines Film Institute
The impetus for Philippine national development rests on the export of its laborers. This massive export that continues to increase through the years sustains Philippine development. Films as cultural artifacts of nationhood provide a dialog to and critique of the economic and political impetus of national development. This lecture will first map out the context of labor export in the Philippines, then proceed to analyze, in particular, globalized domestic work that emplaces the overseas Filipina domestic worker as a central figure in national development. It then turns to the subgenre in film on the overseas contract worker and locates its development within female and feminist filmmaking in the Philippines.
Roland B. Tolentino is an Associate Professor at the University of the Philippines Film Institute, College of Mass Communication and in 2005-06, a Visiting Professor at the National University of Singapore. He completed his Ph.D. in Film, Literature and Culture at the University of Southern California. His publications include co-editor, Transglobal Economies and Cultures: Contemporary Japan and Southeast Asia (2004), National/Transnational: Subject Formation and Media in and on the Philippines (2001), Sa loob at labas ng mall kong sawi/kaliluha’y siyang nangyayaring hari: Ang Pagkatuto at Pagtatanghal ng Kulturang Popular [Inside and outside my shattered mall/confusion reigns supreme: pedagogy and performance of popular culture] (2001), and Richard Gomez at ang Mito ng Pagkalalake, Sharon Cuneta at ang Perpetwal na Birhen at iba pang sanaysay hinggil sa bida sa pelikula bilang kultural na texto [Richard Gomez and the Masculine Myth, Sharon Cuneta and the Perpetual Virgin and other essays on film stars as cultural texts] (2000) which was the Winner of the Best Film Criticism Book, Manila Critics Circle, September 2001.
For more information please contact
Posted by: Center for Southeast Asian Studies?www.international.ucla.edu/cseas/
Sponsor(s): Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Asian American Studies
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Equal Justice Works
Katrina Legal Fellowships Now Available
Equal Justice Works has established the Katrina Legal Fellowships Program to
send nine experienced public interest lawyers to the Gulf Coast for two years,
working in the areas hardest hit by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. This new
Fellowships Program will place lawyers at organizations located in Louisiana,
Mississippi and Texas in order to help the hundreds of thousands of people
left without homes, jobs and social services due to the damage from the
hurricanes.
How to Apply
If you are interested in becoming a Katrina Legal Fellow, please visit our
website at www.equaljusticeworks.org/disaster-relief/index.php for detailed
position descriptions, benefits and application instructions. Please apply to
our host organizations directly. Equal Justice Works will not accept résumés.
Katrina Legal Fellowships Host Organizations
Advocacy Center - New Orleans, Louisiana
Lone Star Legal Aid - Beaumont or Houston, Texas
Louisiana Capital Assistance Center - New Orleans, Louisiana
Mississippi Center for Justice - Biloxi , Mississippi
Mississippi Center for Legal Services - Gulfport/Pascagoula, Mississippi
Mississippi Immigrant Rights Alliance / National Immigration Law Center -
Biloxi and Jackson, Mississippi
Southeast Louisiana Legal Services (benefits and health care project) - New
Orleans, Louisiana
Southeast Louisiana Legal Services (housing project) - New Orleans, Louisiana
Texas Appleseed - Austin , Texas
This program is part of the Equal Justice Works Katrina Initiative, made
possible through the support of a $1 million matching grant from the JEHT
Foundation. For more information about the Katrina Legal Fellowships Program,
please contact katrina-fellowships@equaljusticeworks.org
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Youth Law Center Seeks Candidates for Fellowship Position
The Youth Law Center is a national public interest law firm with offices in
San Francisco and Washington, DC. For more than 25 years, the Center has
advocated on behalf of vulnerable and troubled children throughout the
country. Information on the Center and its activities is available on its
website, www.ylc.org. This position is in the San Francisco office.
The Youth Law Center has been awarded a grant from the David B. Gold
Foundation to support a one-year fellowship for a mid-career attorney working
in California in legal services, the public sector, a public defender's office
or otherwise providing legal services to low-income clients.
Applicants must meet the following criteria:
Have three or more years of experience in providing direct services to low
income clients; Have a commitment to return to providing legal services to
low-income clients in California after the fellowship; Have a relationship
with a legal services office or other law office representing low-income
clients in California that can be maintained throughout the fellowship; and Be
prepared to work from the Youth Law Center's San Francisco Office.
Experience with the juvenile justice or child welfare system is not necessary.
Work:
The areas of work will include protecting children in foster care and the
adult and juvenile justice systems from abuse and dangerous conditions;
ensuring that government and other agencies provide support and services
(e.g., health, mental health, education) to enable children in the foster care
and justice systems to become healthy and productive adults; and ensuring that
children in foster care and justice systems are connected to permanent
families and to their communities. Advocacy activities will include policy
advocacy, litigation, legislative and administrative work, public education
and media advocacy, legal and non-legal writing, training, and technical
assistance.
This fellowship is intended to be a learning opportunity for the fellow and
her/his colleagues in his/her sending program or legal community.
Application Process:
Send or email a cover letter, resume, writing sample, and a list of three
references (one must be your program director) to Mamie Yee; Youth Law Center;
417 Montgomery Street, Suite 900;
San Francisco, CA 94104; (415) 543-3349, ext. 3914; myee@ylc.org, by March 1,
2006.
Time Frame:
The Youth Law Center will negotiate the start date of the fellowship with the
applicant and his/her current employer. The intent is to begin before June of
2006.
We strongly encourage people of color, and individuals who themselves were in
the child welfare or juvenile justice system when they were young, to apply
for this position.
The Youth Law Center does not unlawfully discriminate against any person on
the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, handicap,
veteran status, or sexual orientation.
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Courtroom Advocacy Project Spring Training
Get courtroom experience while helping victims of domestic violence
More women in New York City are killed by their husbands or boyfriends as a
result of domestic violence than by any other crime. Victims of domestic
violence typically enter family court seeking Orders of Protection against
their abusers on the heels of an incident of severe violence. They are often
frightened, isolated from family and friends by their batterers, and at a
heightened risk of life-threatening retaliation.
The Courtroom Advocates Project (CAP) is a unique program that recruits,
trains,
supervises and mentors law students and other volunteers to fill this gap in
advocacy, education and services in New York City's Family Courts. CAP
provides
victims with trained, supervised law students who assist them with the legal
advocacy, education, and safety planning they need to start new lives.
In order to participate in CAP, you must complete a mandatory 5 hour
training. Brooklyn Law School will be holding its CAP training on
February 3, 2006 from 1:30 pm- 6:30pm, room 501. *The training is open to all
BLS students, and students from other law schools in the area.* If you cannot
attend this training, alternate trainings are available at other locations.
If you have any questions, or would like to attend an alternate training,
please
contact Kelly Kocinski at kelly.kocinski@brooklaw.edu
Kelly Kocinski
LAAW
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Asian Pacific American Bar Association
of Los Angeles County (APABA)
in conjunction with the
Japanese American Bar Association
Korean American Bar Association
Philippine American Bar Association
South Asian Bar Association
Southern California Chinese Lawyers Association
invites you to attend our New Admittee Reception
Join fellow Asian and Pacific American attorneys
in welcoming our newest members of the bar
Thursday, February 2, 2006, 6:00 p.m.
at Oiwake Restaurant
122 Japanese Village Plaza Mall (2nd Floor)
Little Tokyo, Downtown Los Angeles
Complimentary for all new Bar Admittees and law students
$10.00 for all others.
Admission includes buffet dinner, non-alcoholic drinks and karaoke.
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GMU Law to host Judge Hong re The Importance of Public Service
Message
GMUSL APALSA invites Judge Jeannie Hong, Tuesday Jan 31
The GMUSL Asian Pacific American Law Student Association is honored to host
Judge Jeannie J. Hong of the United States District Court of Maryland on
Tuesday, January 31. Judge Hong will be speaking about the importance of
public service. Everyone is cordially invited to the presentation which
will be held in Room 121 at 5.15pm. Pizza will be provided.
Judge Hong was appointed as a designate Judge to the Baltimore City District
Court in July 2002. She was sworn in on August 14, 2002. Judge Hong's
appointment is historical as she is the first Asian Pacific American Judge
in the State of Maryland. She graduated in 1988 with a Bachelor of Arts
degree from the University of Virginia and in 1992 earned her Doctorate of
Jurisprudence degree from the Washington College of Law/American University.
In 1993, she worked for one year as a staff attorney for the Maryland
Department of Human Resources, Child Care Administration. For eight years,
she worked as an Assistant State's Attorney for the Baltimore City State's
Attorney's Office. In 1999, Governor Parris N. Glendening appointed Judge
Hong to the Maryland Advisory Commission on Asian American Affairs.
Additionally, she received Lieutenant Governor Kathleen Kennedy Townsend's
Women in Government Service Award of Excellence. In 2000, Judge Hong was a
Maryland Delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles,
California.
Please respond to cng1@gmu.edu with any questions or comments.
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Entertaining interview with Wentworth Miller (LEEWS) that highlights the differences between writing for law school and the bar exam. Visit: www.clsj1994.com. | | |
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