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NYC: With Liberty and Justice for All: Non-Citizens and Democratic Rights Feb
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ImmigrantR-@afsc.org
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Feb 12, 2008 10:18 PST
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The National Lawyers Guild of New York University, The Immigrant Voting
Project, and the NY Coalition to Expand Voting Rights presents:
What: a two day symposium, "With Liberty and Justice for All: Non-Citizens
and
Democratic Rights"
FRIDAY -- 9am to 5:30pm featuring three panel discussions:
1. Constitutional Borderlands and the Meaning of Citizenship
2. Defining the Body Politic: the Right to Vote
3. Next Steps: Towards a Vision of an Inclusive Democracy
SATURDAY: 11am to 3pm featuring workshops
Crafting Pathways Towards Political Empowerment
1. Public Education/Community Organizing
2. Legislative Action
3. Media Strategies
Lunch will be served. Additional details below.
LOCATION:
Greenberg Lounge
Vanderbilt Hall
NYU School of Law
40 Washington Square South
New York, New York 10012
This event is free and open to the public.
***CLE Credit Available for Full Day Attendance***
WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL: NONCITIZENS AND DEMOCRATIC RIGHTS
Friday, February 29th
9:00 - 9:30: Breakfast & CLE Registration
9:30 - 9:45: Opening Remarks
Cristina Rodriguez, New York University School of Law
9:45 - 11:15: Panel 1: Constitutional Borderlands and the Meaning of
Citizenship
Moderator: Cristina Rodriguez, New York University School of Law
Speakers:
Michele Wucker, Executive Director, World Policy Institute
Liz Ouyang, New York University School of Law
Peter Spiro, Temple University School of Law
Rogers Smith, University of Pennsylvania
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: The American Demos: Defining the Body Politic
Speakers:
Myrna Perez, Brennan Center for Justice
Stuart Comstock-Gay, Demos
2:45 - 3:00: Coffee Break
3:00 - 4:15: Panel 3: Next Steps: Towards a Vision of an Inclusive
Democracy
Moderator: Haeyoung Yoon, New York University School of Law
Speakers:
Ron Hayduk, Immigrant Voting Project
Cheryl Wertz, Peace Action New York State
Chung-Wha Hong, New York Immigration Coalition
Chishti Muzaffar, Migration Policy Institute
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
Co-Director of the Immigrant Voting Rights Project, Michele Wucker
is author of the acclaimed 1999 book Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans,
Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola (FSG/Hill & Wang). Her new book,
Lockout: Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity
Depends on Getting It Right, was published by Public Affairs in May 2006.
She is director of the Program on Citizenship and Security. An expert in
Latin America, Wucker lectures frequently about immigration, cross-cultural
conflict and conciliation. She has written for many publications, including
World Policy Journal, The American Prospect, Tikkun, and The Washington
Post, and has been a source for major media including The New York Times,
The Boston Globe, Reuters, CNN, CNBC, National Public Radio, and Public
Radio International. Some of her work is available at her website,
www.wucker.com. Wucker holds a B.A. in French and policy studies from Rice
University and a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University.
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 Congressional 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
Ph.D., Harvard University, 1980
Elected as an American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fellow in 2004.
Professor Smith centers his research on constitutional law, American
political thought, and modern legal and political theory, with special
interests in questions of citizenship, race, ethnicity and gender.
Panel 2: The American Demos: Defining the Body Politic
Myrna Perez, Brennan Center for Justice
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
As Director of the Democracy Program, Stuart leads Demos' efforts to
eliminate barriers to political participation through applied research,
policy analysis and organizing assistance.
Stuart serves jointly as Director of Demos' Democracy Program and Executive
Director of the National Voting Rights Institute, Demos' formal
collaboration partner.
Stuart has written a wide range of commentary on issues of election reform
for publication and has often been quoted in national magazines, newspapers
and wire services, including Baltimore Sun, Washington Post, TomPaine.com,
United Press International, Wilson Library Quarterly and more. He has also
appeared on TV and in numerous radio interviews, including: C-SPAN Morning
show, National Public Radio, Fox Radio News and numerous local radio shows.
Before joining NVRI, Stuart served as the Vice-President & C.O.O., and Vice
President for Programs, of the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation in
Concord, NH. Before joining NHCF, Stuart served as the Executive Director of
the Maryland ACLU in Baltimore.
He is currently Chair of the Board of the Concord Community Music School and
on the community board of Friends of Concord Crew in New Hampshire. Stuart
received his MPA from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, and a BA in
Political Science from Bucknell University.
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, Immigrant Voting Project
Ron Hayduk is Associate Professor of political science at Borough of
Manhattan Community College and co-Director of the Immigrant Voting Rights
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 (Roman 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 work focuses 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
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