March 2025
Event Details
To commemorate 50 years since the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision on students’ disciplinary due process rights, join civil rights attorneys, education law experts, the Solutions Not Suspensions coalition, and New York State Attorney General and legislative representatives for a symposium reflecting upon the impact of Goss v. Lopez on students’ access to education and the future of students’ educational rights under United States and New York law.
DATE: Friday, March 28, 2025
TIME: 9:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m.
LOCATION: Auditorium
New York Law School
185 West Broadway, New York, NY 10013
CLE:
2.5 credits in Professional Practice (NY transitional and nontransitional)
2.5 credits in Diversity, Inclusion, Elimination of Bias (nontransitional only)
CLE MATERIALS AND SPEAKER BIOS
This event is co-sponsored by Advocates for Children of New York; The Legal Aid Society; Legal Services NYC; and New York Law School’s Wilf Impact Center for Public Interest Law, Education Law and Policy Institute, Diane Abbey Law Institute for Children and Families, Civil Rights and Disability Justice Clinic, and Center for New York City and State Law.
AGENDA
9:00 a.m.–9:30 a.m. • CLE Registration and Breakfast
9:30 a.m.–9:45 a.m. • Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:45 a.m.–11:00 a.m. • Examining the History and Intersectionality of Disability and Racial Justice to Uphold Students’ Civil Rights
SPEAKERS:
Sarah Medina Camiscoli, Assistant Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School
Cara McClellan, Director of the Advocacy for Racial and Civil Justice Clinic, and Practice Associate Professor of Law, University of Pennsylvania Penn Carey Law School
Miriam Nunberg, Senior Consultant of the Education Law and Policy Institute, and Adjunct Professor, New York Law School
Britney Wilson, Director of the Civil Rights and Disability Justice Clinic, and Associate Professor of Law, New York Law School
11:15 a.m.–12:30 p.m. • Protecting Students’ Rights 50 Years After Goss v. Lopez
SPEAKERS:
Emily Buss, Mark and Barbara Fried Professor of Law, University of Chicago
Richard Marsico, Director of the Wilf Impact Center for Public Interest Law and Professor of Law, New York Law School
Dennis Parker, Executive Director, National Center for Law and Economic Justice
Kimberly Jenkins Robinson, Executive Director of the Education Rights Institute and Professor of Law, University of Virginia School of Law
Michaela Shuchman, Skadden Fellow, Bronx Legal Services
12:30 p.m.–1:30 p.m. • Lunch in the Grand Gallery and Auditorium
Recorded remarks from Derek Black, Distinguished Professor of Law, University of South Carolina Joseph F. Rice School of Law
1:30 p.m.–3:30 p.m. • Closing the Gaps Left by Goss: Efforts to Improve Students’ Disciplinary Rights in New York
SPEAKERS:
Christine Bingham, Staff Attorney, Legal Aid Society
Angel Gray, Solutions Not Suspensions
Carly Hite, Senior Staff Attorney, Children’s Rights
Nelson Mar, Senior Staff Attorney, Legal Services NYC; Adjunct Professor, New York Law School
Kyle Rapiñan, Assistant Attorney General, New York State Attorney General’s Office
Rohini Singh, Director, School Justice Project, Advocates for Children of New York
Kim Sweet, Executive Director, Advocates for Children of New York
Chauncy Young, Director, New Settlement Parent Action Committee
3:30 p.m.–4:00 p.m. • Closing Remarks and Networking