Dean Scott Speaking at ClassCrits Conference, “Demanding Justice in the Face of Retrenchment”

Sean Scott, California Western School of Law’s President and Dean, continues to lead by example, representing the school’s commitment to using the law to solve human and societal problems.

This Friday, February 9, 2024, Dean Scott will be speaking at the ClassCrits Conference, “Demanding Justice in the Face of Retrenchment: Finding Common Ground and Building Coalition Across Borders.” The event is co-sponsored by Southwestern Law School and will take place on their campus, February 9th and 10th. 

Dean Scott is scheduled to participate on the panel “Reexamining Socially Constructed Status Categories: ‘Children’ and the ‘Disabled’.” Fellow panelists include Sarah Medina Camiscoli, Assistant Professor of Law (Rutgers Law School Newark & Peer) and Kia Turner (Knight-Hennessy Scholar, Stanford University). The panel will be moderated by Diane Kemker, Professor of Law (Southern University Law Center Defense Project).

Dean Scott will be discussing her work in progress, “Minority Incapacity and the Social Construction of Childhood,” in which exposes the class privilege that the minority incapacity doctrine is rooted in and that it serves to create and reinforce. Dean Scott has a long-standing interest in contracts and the construction of social identities. Her most recent article, Contractual Incapacity and the Americans with Disabilities Act, which was published in the Dickinson Law Review and has been recognized by JOTWELL as one of the best works of recent scholarship in the areas of both contracts and elder law. 

ClassCrits, Inc. is a non-profit network with the mission to offer critical analysis of law and economic inequality.