Each year, the Diversity and Social Justice Forum at Chapman University's Dale E. Fowler School of Law hosts a symposium on issues of diversity and social justice, typically paired with the release of the DSJ Forum. DSJ Forum is an online publication featuring practice-oriented issues of social justice, including any aspect of the underlying legal or humanitarian concerns, legal or policy solutions, or the work of movements organizing to address the problem
2022 Annual DSJF Symposium
October 28, 2022
10:30 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. PT
Panel 1 | Promise and Peril of New Youth Imprisonment Reforms
10:30 - 11:45 a.m.
This panel focuses on recent developments in juvenile justice, evaluating the aims behind such changes and their likelihood of success. Calls for abolition and community integrity sit at the forefront of many critiques of youth imprisonment, highlighting the need for locally driven, restorative justice.
Panelists
- Frankie Guzman, National Center for Youth Law
- Perry Moriearty, University of Minnesota Law School
- Jyoti Nanda, Golden Gate University School of Law
Moderated by Professor Wendy Seiden, Visiting Faculty, Fowler School of Law; Chair, OCFVC Homelessness-DV-SA Task Force
Keynote Address | Sofia Gruskin
12 - 1 p.m.
Our keynote address: Current Concerns Bridging Health, Law and Human Rights: From the Global to the Local, is by Sofia Gruskin, Professor of Law at USC Gould School of Law, Director of the USC Institute on Inequalities in Global Health, and a professor and chief of the Disease Prevention, Policy and Global Health Division at Keck School of Medicine, with Q&A from the audience.
Panel 2 | Can Therapeutic Jurisprudence Deliver? The Growth and Evolution of Treatment Courts
1:15 - 2:30 p.m.
This panel will discuss the on-going shift in the way courts address people with mental health and substance abuse challenges in an effort to reduce incarceration and homelessness. Although treatment courts offer the hope of recovery and improved services for such individuals, they are not without controversy. Our panelists will engage in a dialogue about the potential and limits of these rapidly expanding courts.Panelists
- Lili Vo Graham, Disability Rights California
- Judge Mary Kreber Varipapa, Orange County Superior Court
- Eric Miller, Loyola Law School
Moderated by Professor Lawrence Rosenthal, Professor of Law, Fowler School of Law
