The Center for Race, Immigration, Citizenship, and Equality (RICE)
Mission Statement
The Center for Race, Immigration, Citizenship, and Equality (RICE) supports scholarship, education, and public service on the ways that intersectional and marginalized identities produce and reflect structural inequality.
- The Center sponsors lectures and conferences that showcase research and scholarly writing from law, political science, sociology, history, and critical theory, leveraging Hastings’ existing strengths in Law & Society and in interdisciplinary scholarship. It will additionally integrate other UC and California campuses doing related research as part of the Academic Village.
- The Center educates law students through research assistant and teaching positions, colloquium and conferences, and community educations programs. It also connects them with alumnae engaged in related practice areas.
- The Center convenes policymakers, lawyers, community advocates, and legal scholars engaged in equality work for community events that engage the broader Hastings community.
Faculty Affiliates
Blaine Bookey
Karen Musalo
Upcoming Events
Race, Citizenship, and Equality Colloquium – David Fitzgerald
Register for this hybrid event. Papers available by request to rice@uchastings.edu. Talks are brown bag lunches.
Race, Citizenship, and Equality Colloquium – Tendayi Achiume
Register for this hybrid event. Papers available by request to rice@uchastings.edu. Talks are brown bag lunches.
Race, Citizenship, and Equality Colloquium- Erwin Chemerinsky
Register for this hybrid event. Papers available by request to rice@uchastings.edu. Talks are brown bag lunches.
Race, Citizenship, and Equality Colloquium – Sam Erman
Register for this hybrid event. Papers available by request to rice@uchastings.edu. Talks are brown bag lunches.
Past Events

How do laws and attitudes about race and immigration shape people’s sense of belonging, economic security, social mobility, and perception of others? This was the first topic tackled by the new UC Law SF Center for Race, Immigration, Citizenship, and Equality (RICE).

Anna Law, Associate Professor and Herb Kurz Chair in Constitutional Rights at CUNY presents “Race Reconstruction, and Black Citizenship” with Faculty discussants Richard Boswell and Jack Chin.
Connect with Us
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Contact us at rice@uchastings.edu