Schedule (All Times PST)

8:45am – 9:00am

Bradley Queen

Associate Professor of Teaching
Co-Director, Composition Program, Department of English UCI

Opening Remarks

9:00am – 10:00am

Howard Gillman
UC Irvine’s Chancellor (photo: Steve Zylius/UC Irvine communications)

Introduced by Jane Stoever

Moderated by Brad Queen

10:00am – 10:15am

Michelle Deutchman
Executive Director of the UC National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement

About the VOICE Initiative

10:15am – 11:15am

Brook Thomas
Chancellor’s Professor, English
UCI

Strategies for Cross-Examining Law and Literature

The bulk of this talk will outline various ways to link law and literature. It will end by citing a literary work, The Marrow of Tradition (1901) by Charles W. Chesnutt, to provide an historical perspective on hate speech in the media. Specifically, it will reference Chesnutt’s work to address the role of a newspaper inciting a racial massacre. (No need to read the novel before hand.)

Moderated by Brad Queen

11:15am – 11:45am

English 11, Student Presentations (and Buddy Cassidy, TA for E11)

Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission (2018)
- Sawyer Jeppson, School of Humanities, English
NIFLA v. Becerra (2018)
- Chelsea Acevedo, School of Social Ecology, Criminology
Elonis v. United States (2015)
- Aarij Gora, School of Biological Sciences, Bio Sci
- Jeonghee Kim, School of Social Sciences, Sociology
- Clarissa Gao, School of Humanities, English
Brown v. EMA (2011)
- Luis Ore, School of Social Ecology, Crim/Law
“Case by Case: Developing Rapport with Court Cases in a Law and Literature Class.”
- Christopher “Buddy” Cassidy, PhD Student, School of Humanities, English

11:45am – 12:45pm

David Kaye
Clinical Professor of Law, UCI

In this panel, Prof. David Kaye will be interviewed by Brad Queen

12:45pm – 1:15pm

English 11, Student Presentations

NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware (1982)
- Skyy Rincon, School of Humanities, Literary Journalism
- Erica Wong, School of Humanities, English
- Vicente Nunez, School of Humanities, English
- Marlene Santos, School of Humanities, English
Fulton v. City of Philadelphia (2021), Employment Division v. Smith (1990)
- Aida Peralta, School of Humanities, Spanish
- Virginia Valdez, School of Humanities, English
- Catherine Vu, School of Humanities, English
- Jessie Yu, School of Social Ecology, Criminology
An Excerpt from “Beyond Gilead: The Intersection Between Literature and Human Rights in Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale,” an Undergraduate Honors Thesis
- Margaret O’Hara, School of Humanities & Social Ecology, Criminology & Literary Journalism
NIFLA v. Becerra (2018)
- Sandra Flores, School of Humanities, Literary Journalism
- Citlalli Gutierrez, School of Humanities, English
Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969)
- Yuan Gu, School of Social Ecology, Criminology
- Hannah Ilagan, School of Social Ecology, Criminology
Watts v. United States (1969)
- Deborah Yeh, School of Social Ecology, Criminology
- Fernanda Paramo, School of Humanities, English
- Amanda Quintana, School of Ecology, Criminology
- Lucas Maher, School of Social Sciences, Int. Studies