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Prof. Shirley Lin
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Associate Professor @brooklynlaw. Work Law, CRT & social movements. Board member, Society for Disability Studies. Legal theory nerd; former community organizer. (she/her) Opinions = own. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=1398227
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Next up from Society for Disability Studies, 🍂 Mon. October 6th:
"Disruption & Strategic Engagement: Bridging Critical Pedagogy and Disability Activism" feat. Sara M. Acevedo and Suzanne Stolz. Register here: bit.ly/4gtwiiQ
Flyer from Society for Disability Studies, entitled "Disruption and strategic engagement: Bridging critical pedagogy and disability activism" Black and white profile photo of event speakers, Suzanne Stolz and Sara Acevedo Date & Time: Oct 6, 2025 12:00-1:15PM EST This presentation examines the collaborative autoethnographic work of Dr. Acevedo and Dr. Stolz with pre-service professionals in disability studies courses. The session explores how community partnerships support critical pedagogy and disability activism, with a particular emphasis on the role of conscientization in promoting a culturally affirming understanding of disability. 45 min presentation with 30-min Q&A Registration Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/st-7A7IaQ328y09HlOXI6w#/registration
September 22, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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Such wonderful convos and questions in presenting Race-Conscious Data @apsa.bsky.social #APSA2025. And glad I brought print-outs of the piece - old tech to go with the new!
Photo of Shirley Lin, masked, black glasses and black hair, standing in a convention hall before large monitors featuring papers
September 13, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Enjoying a few gems already from Du Bois Review, courtesy of @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org Open Access journals at #APSA2025. Poli sci journals should be an easy crossover for @cambup-law.cambridge.org at AALS2026.
Journal cover for Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race, with portrait photo underlay of WEB.
September 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Courtesy of APSA2025, I learn of Canada's alt-Heritage Foundation, the Fraser Institute: "Economic Freedom of North America 2024" ranks degree govts "permit their citizens to make their own economic choices." NY + CA ranked second to last in freedom, while FL, TX, and NV ranked as "most free."
Color-coded map of the North American continent purports to measure the degree governments "permit their citizens to make their own economic choices," with states such as New York and California ranked second to last in freedom, and Florida, Texas, and Nevada ranked as "most free."
September 12, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Congrats @trangmae! It was wonderful to hear you present an equally rich paper, "Goods' Nationalities" at #ComplianceNet25
Professor Trang Mae Nguyen (Temple Law) presents a slide at the front of a classroom at Fordham Law.
May 30, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Immense joy to reunite (after a year of online meetings) w @genremixtress.bsky.social, Shanda Sibley, student co-panelists Chloe Sension, M. @peerdefense @brooklynlawschool.bsky.social + new colleagues, to caucus on antiracist pedagogical interventions and coalition-building. #LSAChicago2025 #CritEd
A daytime view of Chicago's River, glass green, surrounded by tall glassy skyscrapers.
May 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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Spotted at #LSAChicago2025: Anjali Vats @raceip.bsky.social's Color of Creatorship. Now added to my summer reading list!
May 26, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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For once a clear-eyed email, putting "shock and awe" in its place. Actual leadership from educators in our school district. K-12 teachers, once again the conscience of our community.
Email excerpt reading, "It is important to remember that an Executive Order is not a law. While we recognize the urgency of federal policies and their potential implications, there are no immediate actions required at this time. However, we remain vigilant and informed, ensuring that our decisions prioritize the safety and well-being of our students and staff. We will continue to monitor developments and provide updates as needed. Thank you for your trust and partnership...."
January 31, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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My students' discussion questions were due the evening of the weekend Inauguration. Their grief, outrage, and impatience with law were palpable, but so was their brilliance. Starting their day with a checklist never hurts; it became mine too. #CRT
A white slide with black text shares a bulleted checklist entitled "Today's To-Do List: -Check in & set our intentions -Liberatory thinking <--> Critical knowledge -Define “Social Movement” -Shift some power -Question everything"
January 22, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Had such a wonderful time today presenting Mass Accommodations at UVA's Law & Inequalty Colloquium. Thanks so much to Bertrall Ross and Joy Milligan, for such lively discussion with your colleagues and students! #disability #DisCrit
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November 11, 2024 at 9:45 PM
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@CTULocal1 Pres. @StacyDavisGates in convo with Ana Ma. Archila on co-governance: "Common good unionism" -- not bargaining alone -- focuses on "how to form and reform relationships" to build true solidarity.
October 17, 2024 at 6:56 PM
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Gratitude to Jamelia Morgan, Rohan Zhou-Lee & Liat Ben-Moshe for their brilliance and insight into practices of #disability justice: Opposing the removal of unhoused people and state retrenchments toward civil commitment of PwD is racial justice, and abolitionist. www.brooklaw.edu/News-and-Eve...
"DISABILITY JUSTICE AS ABOLITION" in white letters on a black background. Clockwise, from upper left to right, are four panelists' profile pictures and affiliations: 1. Rohan Zhou-Lee of Blasian March, is a brown-skinned Black Asian with short black hair, in a black tee; 2. Liat Ben Moshe of University of Illinois Chicago, a white-skinned woman with short curly brown hair in an asymmetrical mosaic top, wearing a tortoise-shell glasses; 3. Shirley Lin, of Brooklyn Law School, a Chinese-American woman with dark wired glasses and black shoulder-length hair in a black blazer; and 4. Jamelia Morgan, of Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, a brown-skinned woman with locs, wearing a tan heather blazer;
April 6, 2024 at 5:45 PM
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On Apr 4 1-2 EDT, I have the honor of bringing national activists + experts Rohan Zhou-Lee (Blasian March), Liat Ben-Moshe (UI Chicago), and Jamelia Morgan (Northwestern Law & Center for Racial & Disability Justice) in conversation re disability, race, and the political economy. Q&A kicks off /1
DISABILITY JUSTICE AS ABOLITION" in pale yellow letters on a dark green background. Clockwise, from upper left to right, are four panelists' profile pictures and affiliations: 1. Rohan Zhou-Lee of Blasian March, is a brown-skinned Black Asian in a red top and short black hair; 2. Liat Ben-Moshe of University of Illinois Chicago, a white-skinned woman with short curly brown hair in a blue ruffled tank, seated, holding a copy of Decarcerating Disability; 3. Jamelia Morgan, of Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, a brown-skinned woman with long black braids wearing a beige blazer; and 4. Shirley Lin, of Brooklyn Law School, a Chinese American woman with black shoulder-length hair in a tan blazer. All are smiling. Footer: "Work Law as Privatized Public Law Series."
March 22, 2024 at 5:56 PM
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Will be expanding on my latest, Race, Solidarity, and Commerce: Work Law as Privatized Public Law, now out in Arizona State Law Journal (Dec. 2023)! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Abstract: Theorizing work and its regulation has held enduring appeal for legal theorists. Yet intellectual movements that wish to theorize worker coercion within a broader critique of law often sidestep race. Since Lochner, landmark opinions involving race, labor, or both, have served as showpieces for the legal liberal tenets underpinning work law’s doctrines and institutions. Each iteration of the public/private divide instantiates an ideological—but avowedly race-neutral—structure for how we study, teach, and propose to reshape work law. Scholars, judges, and lawmakers typically cede this ground, perhaps because law itself is under right-wing attack. This Article asks: What if work law allowed us to understand racism as central to legal liberal frames, rather than ancillary or topical? Deploying history and political theory, I demonstrate how public/private dyads within work law have generated unworkable and often divisive understandings of race, solidarity, and commerce. . .
February 8, 2024 at 5:38 PM
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Sinking in that I'll be @ClassCrits XIV en route to LAX soon. So atm, literally, #LawSky. Trw morning, please join Angela Harris @UCDavisLaw, @veenadubal.bsky.social
@UCILaw, Saúl Sarabia @UCLA_Law, @rafaeldjaime, @UAWUCLA, and me for "Race, Work, and Twenty-First Century Organizing."
A rectangular ClassCritsXIV conference image in light to dark purple with white lettering in the center reading: Demanding Justice in the Face of Retrenchment: Finding Common Ground and Building Coalition Across Borders. Framing the text are 10 photos or logos, from the Southwestern Law School and fist in air, to photos of a protest and a blindfolded statute of Lady Jutice.
February 8, 2024 at 5:31 PM
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Joy, gratitude & rapt attention as Prof. Frank Rudy Cooper @BoydLawUNLV as receives the Clyde Ferguson Award #AALS2024
Smiling widely, Prof. Frank Rudy Cooper stands at a conference podium, in a gray suit and glasses, amid an AALS panel of 2024 awardees and Minority Group section leaders.
January 4, 2024 at 5:47 PM
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Immense gratitude to @DukeLaw's Trina Jones & CLRP. My @brooklynlaw students & I were honored to witness and support the Critical Legal Collective alter the very center of gravity in legal ed this weekend.
In a brightly lit law school hallway painted white, beneath a staircase spiraling upward, four Brooklyn Law students of Critical Race Theory and Work Law with professor Shirley Lin (second from left, woman, 40s, Chinese American, long black hair, metal dark rimmed glasses) shoulder to shoulder, all smiling.
November 14, 2023 at 2:20 PM
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Can't avoid crowds or #COVID, so just got my Pfizer bivalent shot. Not worth waiting til later in Fall. Mine was a quick appt at Walgreens on Court St. #disability
September 22, 2023 at 6:03 PM
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Floored by fatigue from a seasonal bug today, and simply handed out Aura masks to my students to use also. By Year 3 of the pandemic, when we know full well the risks to people with disabilities, the only place I've seen offer N95s freely is this one 👇 Who can name it?
A late-19th century dark grey brick complex with small towers, in the Gothic Revival and Romanesque styles, fronted by full green trees.
September 21, 2023 at 12:23 AM
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First week of Critical Race Theory seminar - done! Already impressed with the courage & thoughtfulness of Brooklyn Law's students - all 2L, 2P, & 3Ls. The slide that launched 1,000 conversations. #crt #lawsky
Under the title "What dynamics inform CRT?" five overlapping circles are labeled Legal Theories [plural language underlined], History, Social Movements, Economics, and Norms: The Prescriptive. In letters equally as large as the title appears at the bottom imply, and "21st Century legal education(?)"
September 8, 2023 at 6:19 PM
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Love seeing signs of life again here, but almost zilch on Critical Race Theory here post-AA/303 decisions. Here's a sneak peek @ the crit pedagogies hub I pulled together with Critical Legal Collective colleagues for the public:
A square image of Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson seated at the Supreme Court bench, surrounded by flames reminiscent of the meme of a dog calmly sipping coffee amid flames. Her thought bubble reads, "This is not fine."
July 5, 2023 at 4:24 PM