Initiatives

Innovations that merge critical race theory and practice

"Critical Race Theory coheres in the drive to excavate the relationship
between the law, legal doctrine, ideology, and racial power

and the motivation

 'not merely to understand the vexed bond between law and racial power,
but to change it.' " 

Professor Cheryl I. Harris, in "Critical Race Studies: An Introduction" (2002)

The students and faculty of the CRS Program apply the principles of critical race theory to concrete legal and social problems.  We have launched various initiatives and innovative projects which simultaneously enrich the education of all students at the UCLA School of Law, while supporting the use of law to challenge racial subordination and social injustice.

• Global Affirmative Action Praxis Project in collaboration with the African American Policy Forum 
• American Racialization and the US War on Terror
• CRT Disability Studies
• Social Justice Writing Circle