The NYU Review of Law & Social Change together with the Center for Constitutional Rights are bringing together law students, lawyers, organizers, and impacted community members for a one-day symposium to reflect on the historic ruling, to discuss lessons learned in the last decade of struggle for police reform and accountability, and to imagine a future of abolition and community safety. The symposium takes its name from the words of Plaintiff David Ourlicht who, as a teen was unconstitutionally stopped three times, and who not only took the stand to fight but was inspired to go to law school and become a public defender. And we are thrilled that Judge Shira Scheindlin, who issued the landmark ruling in 2013, before being subjected to an unprecedented attack by a reactionary Second Circuit panel, will join us for a keynote conversation with Center for Constitutional Rights’ Legal Director Baher Azmy.

Schedule of Events:

9am - Welcome Reception

10am-10:30am: Opening & Welcome
Baher Azmy, Center for Constitutional Rights Legal Director.

10:30 - 12pm - Opening Panel: 10 Years Since Floyd
A moderated panel discussion featuring plaintiffs, organizers, and lawyers to discuss the historic victory and lessons learned

12-1:30pm - Keynote Lunch with Judge Shira Scheindlin

2-4pm - Closing Panel: Toward Abolitionist Futures
A powerfully facilitated visioning session that not only offers insight into the shifts of movement strategy but invites the audience into a space of radical possibility for a future of accountability and abolition

4-4:30pm - Closing Moment

RLSC & CCR would like to thank our Co-Sponsors: NYU's Ending the Prison Industrial Complex (EPIC), Women of Color Collective (WOCC), OUTlaw, National Lawyer's Guild (NLG), and the Disability Allied Law Students Association (DALSA).