Junior Faculty Development Workshop

On Professionalism & Balance: Academic and Personal Success

Justus Morris et al. — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 10:30:00 PDT

After a day of focusing on scholarship and teaching, this session focusing on weaving together all aspects of life as critical, progressive, and social justice oriented legal academics and succeeding without "selling out" your identity. This session discusses the basics of professionalism in the context of the North American legal academy, including key questions on institutional politics, "collegiality," and similar topics that are elemental to academic success. It also incorporates reflections upon ways and mean of balancing the various demands on our time and energy as critical and progressive scholars and teachers. This session ends with open discussion and question/answers.

Closing the Workshop: Concluding Comments & Reflections

Kim D. Chanbonpin et al. — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 11:30:00 PDT

On Scholarship: Writing Critical and Progressive Scholarship

Atiba Ellis et al. — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 09:00:00 PDT

This session focuses on identifying and developing a scholarly agenda, conducting/overseeing research, and completing a scholarly project. It includes brief presentations on basic rules and norms of legal scholarship and associated challenges for critical, progressive, and social justice oriented scholars. It also addresses publication choices for legal academics. This session ends with open discussion and questions/answers.

Breakfast

Kim D. Chanbonpin et al. — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 08:20:00 PDT

We will begin by briefly reintroducing ourselves to one another, including newly arrived participants, and then the co-chairs will lay out the schedule and goals for the rest of the FDW.

Community Building Dinner

Kim Chanbonpin et al. — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 18:30:00 PDT

After five years, Hazel Weiser recently stepped down from her post as executive director of SALT. The LatCrit Steering Committee would like to show its appreciation of her extraordinary efforts and passionate pursuit of justice during this moment in which LatCrit and SALT members of years past, present, and future come together in the community that Hazel was so instrumental in developing.

The Community Building Dinner is specifically designed to create a welcoming space for FDW participants to cultivate supportive personal, professional, and social networks. Striving for individual success in the legal academy can often feel isolating, discouraging, and even dehumanizing. The Community Building Dinner provides a counterweight to those experiences by emphasizing aspects of ourselves that help create our identity as a community, even if they don't make it into our tenure files or dean's reports. In this spirit, this year’s dinner will feature an open mic. We invite you to share your poetry, song, dance, and other talents with the group. Group performances are highly encouraged! Additional opportunities for participation in the open mic night may include karaoke, group games of Celebrity, Dictionary, and other icebreakers.

Networking Break: Wine and Cheese Reception

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 17:45:00 PDT

This break is an opportunity for renewing existing and developing new relationships, making mentor/mentee connections, and general community building.

Making Choices & Keeping Doors Open

Matthew Charity et al. — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:45:00 PDT

This session addresses the status issues affecting critical, progressive, and social justice oriented scholars and law teachers along multiple axes. It explores models of podium, clinical, and legal writing positions, and forms of adjunct, contract, and other contingent faculty status. It is also an opportunity to address lateral moves and visiting and administrative positions. This session explores some of these axes, current movements within the academy, and ways for individuals to navigate status issues, including available choices.

Break

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:35:00 PDT

Mock Job Talk (Breakout Sessions)

Kim Chanbonpin et al. — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:25:00 PDT

These sessions gives candidates an opportunity to get a sense of what happens at a job talk and highlights high stakes issues underlying certain types of questions for critical, progressive, and social justice oriented scholars and teachers. These sessions have two parts: 20 minutes are devoted to a simulated job talk, including questions from the audience, and 45 minutes are allocated for discussion and questions.

We encourage all workshop participants to attend one of these breakout sessions to support and aid those who are currently on the job market.

Transit time

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 15:15:00 PDT