Presumed Incompetent

This panel brought together one of the co-editors and several contributors to Presumed Incompetent II: Race, Class, Power and Resistance of Women in Academia (Utah State University Press, 2020). The panel discusses the formidable obstacles that women of color encounter in the academic workplace and the tenacity and creativity that they deploy to overcome these barriers. As law schools are called to grapple with systemic injustice and to embrace anti-racist pedagogy, the struggles and victories of women of color offer valuable lessons on best practices to recruit, retain, and promote faculty who share this goal and eagerly embrace this challenge. 

Panelists & Moderator

• Carmen G. Gonzalez, Morris I. Leibman Professor of Law, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
• Sahar Aziz, Professor of Law, Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar, Middle East Legal Scholar, and Director of the Center for Security, Race and Rights, Rutgers Law School
• Adrien K. Wing, Bessie Dutton Murray Professor of Law & Associate Dean for International Programs, University of Iowa College of Law
• Laura M. Padilla, Professor of Law, California Western School of Law
• Athena Mutua, Professor of Law, Floyd H. & Hilda L. Hurst Faculty Scholar SUNY Buffalo Law School (Moderator)