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Presentations
9/08 The State as Batterer: Learning from Family Law to Address America’s Family-Like Race Dysfunction The State as Batterer: Learning from Family Law to Address America’s Family-Like Race Dysfunction, Upcoming Presentation, Northeast People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, Boston University School of Law
6/08 Converting Challenging Conversations in the Classroom into Learning Opportunities, Plenary Presentation, 2008 American Association of Law Schools, Workshop for New Law Teachers
6/08 Teaching Specialty Courses, Small group leader, 2008 American Association of Law Schools, Workshop for New Law Teachers
5/08 The State as Batterer: Learning from Family Law to Address America’s Family-Like Race Dysfunction, Presentation, Law and Society Association, Montreal, Canada
5/08 Diversity and Education Workshop, Workshop Organizer and Faculty Chair, Mississippi College School of Law
4/08 An Educator’s Affirmative and Constitutionally Supported Duty: Promoting Positive Race Speech, Presentation, Joint Conference of the Asian Pacific American Law Faculty and the Western Law Teachers of Color, University of Denver, Strum College of Law
4/08 An Educator’s Affirmative and Constitutionally Supported Duty: Promoting Positive Race Speech, Presentation, Invited Session of the Women of Color Caucus, 31st Annual Southeastern Women’s Studies Association Meeting, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
3/08 Taking Risks when your Presence puts you at Risk: Guidelines for Women and Faculty of Color, Panel Presentation, Society of American Law Teachers’ Teaching Conference, University of California, Berkeley School of Law
2/08 The State as Batterer: Learning from Family Law to Address America’s Family-Like Race Dysfunction, Presentation, Visiting Scholar, University of Florida, Levin College of Law, Gainesville
2/08 It’s Simple: How Diversity Benefits Whites and How Whites can Simply Benefit Diversity, Presentation, at Brown Undone? Seattle School District Symposium, Seattle University School of Law
12/07

Potential of the Law for Realizing Equality:  Past, Present and Future, Lecturer/Panelist, Medgar Evers/Ella Baker Civil Rights Lecture Series, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi

11/07 Race, Professionalism, Ethics and Moral Commitment, Invited Fellow, National Institute for Teaching Ethics and Professionalism Workshop, Georgia State University College of Law
10/07

Examining the Black Female Struggling Class through the lens of Life and Literature, Presentation, 2007 Obermann Humanities Symposium, From Bourgeois to Boojie; Black Middle Class Performances, University of Iowa

9/07 An Affirmative Response to Hate Speech:  Promoting Positive Race Speech as a Policy Solution, Presentation, Northeastern People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, Southern New England School of Law, Massachusetts
6/07 Learning From Family Law to Address America's Family-Like Race Dysfunction, International Society of Family Law, Vancouver, Canada
5/07 Race, Gender, and Class, Participant, Class Crits II Workshop, Baldy Center for Law of Social Policy, University at Buffalo Law School, New York
4/18/07 Conference Speaker at Harvard Law School, Apr. 18, 2007 (invited to discuss legal issues concerning player autonomy in the National Basketball Association on panel hosted by the Harvard Law School Committee on Sports and Entertainment Law)
4/13/07 Conference Speaker at the University of Memphis, Apr. 13, 2007 (invited to discuss topic of "Congress, Intercollegiate Athletics, and Higher Education: Is college sports a tax-exempt enterprise or an unrelated business?" on panel of sports law and sports business experts).
3/31/07 Conference Speaker at Florida University College of Law, Mar. 31, 2007 (invited to discuss contemporary antitrust and labor law issues in professional sports at the Entertainment, Arts, and Sports Industry Conference hosted by the Florida State University College of Law Entertainment, Law, and Sports Law Society)
3/17/07

An Affirmative Response to Hate Speech:  Promoting Positive Race Speech as a Policy Solution, S outheastern/Southwestern Law Faculty of Color Conference, Florida A. & M. University College of Law, Orlando, Florida

3/02/07

An Affirmative Response to Hate Speech:  Promoting Positive Race Speech as a Policy Solution, Third International Globalization, Diversity and Education Conference, Washington State University, Spokane, Washington

2/10/07 Conference Speaker at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, Feb. 10, 2007 (discussing experience as counsel to Maurice Clarett in Clarett v. NFL and the legality of age limits in professional sports at annual conference hosted by the Thomas Jefferson School of Law Sports and Entertainment Law Society) 
2/10/07 Conference Speaker at Harvard Law School, Feb. 10, 2007 (discussing social psychology and the law, particularly in the context of torts and sports law, at the Conference on Law and Mind Sciences; also discussing a new blog that Professor McCann and Harvard Law School professor Jon Hanson recently started called The Situationist and the Project on Law and Mind Sciences at Harvard Law School, which they recently co-founded). 
02/02/07 Symposium Speaker at the University of Virginia School of Law, Feb. 2, 2007 (presenting on legality and psychology of age limits in pro sports at symposium hosted by the Virginia Sports and Entertainment Law Journal)
02/07
Panelist, Striving for Balance: Racial Sensitivity, Fairness and Recognition, R. Jess Brown Chapter of the Black Law Students' Association, Black History Month Program, Mississippi College School of Law

02/07

An Affirmative Response to Hate Speech:  Promoting Positive Race Speech as a Policy Solution, Heresy, Blasphemy, and Freedom of Expression, an International, Multi-Disciplinary Conference, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida

11/13/06 Guest Lecturer at the University of Mississippi School of Law, Nov. 13, 2006 (lecturing on how labor and antitrust law intersect in sports law in Labor Law course taught by Professor Paul Secunda)
11/07/06 Guest Lecturer at Florida Coastal School of Law, Nov. 7, 2006 (discussing work-in-progress on psychological and intellectual testing of NBA and NFL draft-eligible players)
10/27/06 Colloquium Speaker at Marquette University Law School, Oct. 27, 2006 (discussing work-in-progress on psychological and intellectual testing of NBA and NFL draft-eligible players at the 2006 Colloquium on Current Scholarship in Labor and Employment Law)
10/27/06 Formal Versus Informal Allocation Of Land In A Commons:  The Case Of The MacArthur Park Sidewalk Vendors, at the First Annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies at the University of Texas School of Law (poster board)

09/06

Will you be a Player, or will you be Played in the Legal System, Constitutional Day Speaker, Alcorn State University, Lorman, Mississippi

09/06
How to Raise and Discuss Issues of Race in the Classroom, Society of American Law Teachers' Teaching Conference, Boston, Massachusetts
8/29/06

Rebuilding in the Wake of Disaster-Smart Growth?  Moderator on panel discussion at Hurricane Katrina:  A Legal Symposium, at Mississippi College School of Law

06/06
Dispelling Misconceptions (On Teaching Race in Mainstream Courses), New Ideas for Law School Teachers:  Teaching Intentionally, American Association of Law Schools Conference, Vancouver Canada
04/06
A Metaphorical Contract between White and Black America, Southeast/Southwest People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, Santa Fe, New Mexico
3/31/06

Formal Versus Informal Allocation Of Land In A Commons:  The Case Of The MacArthur Park Sidewalk Vendors, at the Annual Conference of the Society for Latin American Studies at the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

02/06
A Metaphorical Contract between White and Black America, International Inaugural Spring Contracts Conference, Diversity of Contract Law, Fort Worth, Texas
02/06
Especially for Minorities: How to Prepare for Law School from the Inside Out, Minority Pre Law Day, for Mississippi College School of Law/ University of Mississippi School of Law, Jackson, Mississippi, in
09/05
Inaugural Fellow, National Institute for Teaching Ethics and Professionalism, Georgia State University, (race and professionalism)
09/05
Full Citizenship Rights:  Are We There Yet?, Constitutional/Citizenship Day Speaker, Jackson State University, Jackson, Mississippi
9/22/05

Landlord-Tenant Issues In The Wake Of Hurricane Katrina.  Presentation to legal aid volunteers, at Mississippi College School of Law and the Mississippi State Bar

05/05
A Metaphorical Contract between White and Black America, Fourth Biennial International Conference, on Intercultural Research, Kent State University
05/05
On keeping the torch glowing . . Speaker, R. Jess Brown Black Law Students' Association Graduation Banquet, Mississippi College School of Law