Join the CLS Mindfulness Program to celebrate the release of Professor Susan Sturm’s book. What Might Be: Confronting Racism to Transform Our Institutions, which explores how to turn the paradoxes of anti-racism into drivers of institutional change and dramatizes the ways reflective practice can be foundational to change work. We will build skills through a short mindfulness meditation led by Professor Elizabeth Emens and engage in a dialogue with Professor Sturm about reimagining the possible in challenging times.
Please RSVP here. For those joining us in person, we will meet in Case Lounge. For those joining via Zoom, the live-stream can be accessed here.
Susan Sturm is the George M. Jaffin Professor of Law and Social Responsibility and a co-chair and architect of Columbia Law School’s Davis Polk Leadership Initiative, a cross-disciplinary effort to prepare students to succeed as leaders in a wide range of sectors. Sturm teaches Civil Procedure, Access to Justice for People in Prison, Community Centered Participatory Justice, and Lawyer Leadership: Leading Self, Leading Others, Leading Change. She is the founding director of the Center for Institutional and Social Change and a Provost Senior Faculty Teaching Scholar. She received Columbia University’s Presidential Teaching Award in 2007. Sturm’s work focuses on inequality, discrimination, remedying racial and gender bias, transforming the justice system, lawyer-leadership, and the role education can play in creating social change and a more inclusive world. Her book, What Might Be: Confronting Racism to Transform Our Institutions, published by Princeton University Press, will be released on February 11, 2025.
Elizabeth Emens is the Thomas M. Macioce Professor of Law and the Director of the Mindfulness Program at Columbia Law School. She writes and teaches on disability law, family law, anti-discrimination law, contracts law, and law and sexuality, as well as teaching in the Law School’s Davis Polk Leadership Initiative. She clerked for Judge Robert D. Sack of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and she earned her JD and BA from Yale and her PhD from King's College, Cambridge. Her teacher training in mindfulness has been through the University of Massachusetts Center for Mindfulness, the Mindful Schools program, and the Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program.
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