Date: Saturday, August 8

Time: 12:30 PM - 2:10 PM

THEMATIC

Session 048: Law in/as Crisis: Legal Consciousness and Rights Mobilization
Room: Broadway II

Sponsor: Law and Society

Organizers: Michael Branch, Hawaiʻi Community College
Sino V. Esthappan, Northwestern University

Presider &

Discussant: Michael Branch, Hawaiʻi Community College

Description: 

This session examines how legal consciousness shapes the mobilization, interpretation, and limits of rights claims across varied contexts. Moving between post-conflict justice, workplace equity, legal pluralism, and everyday dispossession, the papers analyze how people understand, invoke, and contest law in moments of uncertainty and structural inequality.

Papers:

“Mapping ‘The Overlay for the Underplay’: Abstract Law and Concrete Dispossession,” Nicole Trujillo-Pagan, Wayne State University

“Emotion-First Theory and Practice: Emotional Intelligence as Foundational Infrastructure for Equity Practice,” Cherise Fanno Burdeen and Alison Bloomquist, EIDEIA Institute

“Perceptions of the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act among UCCS Tenured/Tenure-Track Faculty,” Edwardo L. Portillos, Esther Lamidi, Lei Zhang and Haruki Eda, University of Colorado Colorado Springs

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