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CREJ ANNUAL REPORT 2025-2026

Mission Statement The Center for Racial and Economic Justice (CREJ) works to advance equity and justice through legal education, original research and scholarship, and academic-community partnerships and collaborations. Each year, CREJ convenes and facilitates dialogues with scholars, practitioners, and community leaders through conferences, symposia, and roundtables on contemporary issues and challenges in the field of racial and economic justice. To achieve its mission, CREJ actively collaborates with UC Law San Francisco faculty, UC Law San Francisco students, and local and national organizations, as well as other race and law centers across the country. As a hub for racial and economic justice activities, CREJ enriches the intellectual community at UC Law San Francisco by hosting two academic appointments, the Wiley Manuel Visiting Scholar and Professorship and C. Keith Wingate Visiting Assistant Professorship. The Wiley Manuel Visiting Scholars and Professors are legal scholars whose work has been recognized as seminal in the fields of racial and economic justice and include Professor Rick Banks (2025–2026), Professor Cheryl Harris (2024–2025), Professor Jerry López (2023–2024), Professor Scott Cummings (2022–2023), and Professor Russell Robinson (2021–2022). In 2026–2027, CREJ will welcome Professor Shaun Ossei-Owusu as the Wiley Manuel Visiting Scholar and Professor. The two-year C. Keith Wingate Visiting Assistant Professorship supports junior scholars committed to equity and justice as they develop their research and teaching portfolios before entering legal academia. The 2026-2028 C. Keith Wingate Visiting Assistant Professor of Law is Aimee Carlisle. Prior C. Keith Wingate Visiting Assistant Professor of Law include Professor Natalia Ramírez Lee (McGeorge School of Law), Professor Prithika Balakrishnan (UC Law San Francisco), and Professor Evelyn Marcelina Rangel-Medina (Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law).

Faculty Directors

Professor Thalia González

Dean Emerita Shauna Marshall

Dear Community, As another academic year ends, the Center for Racial and Economic Justice (CREJ) is thrilled to share its milestones, achievements, and growth. As no single voice can capture the breadth of our work's impact, we have asked our community for their reflections (p. 12) on how CREJ is expanding as a hub for justice, and we invite you to consider their words alongside ours. As you will read, CREJ’s faculty, student researchers, and programs this year have been central in furthering our commitment to racial and economic equity. Whether it was welcoming Professor Richard Banks from Stanford Law School 2025-2026 as the Wiley Manuel Visiting Scholar and Professor of Law (p. 7), hosting academics and practitioners from across the country to strategically challenge threats to the rule of law with a specific focus on voting rights, diversity, equity and inclusion, higher education, and immigration (p. 9), creating a new webinar series (p. 11), engaging in original research and publishing new reports and briefs (p. 12-13), partnering with the Brookings Institution to develop and maintain a litigation tracker (p. 14), supporting community-based organizations with original research (p. 14) or organizing an all-day symposium on state and local innovations to protect workers’ rights (p. 10)—our focus on interrogating and disrupting systems of subordination and fostering spaces for co-creating justice-led alternative visions has remained steadfast. We are also proud to recognize the field accomplishments of CREJ-affiliated faculty members, including the transition of C. Keith Wingate Visiting Assistant Professor of Law Natalia Ramírez Lee to her appointment as a Professor of Law at McGeorge School of Law and the appointment of Aimee Carlisle as the 2026-2027 C. Keith Wingate Visiting Assistant Professor of Law (p. 8). In 2026-2027, CREJ will also welcome Professor Shaun Ossei-Owusu, from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, as the Wiley Manuel Visiting Scholar and Professor of Law. We have no doubt that Professors Ossei-Owusu and Carlisle will enrich the intellectual community at UC Law SF. We extend our deep gratitude to the UC Law staff, CREJ student research assistants, panelists, speakers, and attendees whose participation and support have been integral to the success of CREJ programs this year. The dedication and support from those within our UC Law community allows us to continue this vital work. We also wish to thank our community partners and collaborators—your dedication to protecting those most vulnerable across the country in a time of racial and economic justice retrenchment, with basic freedoms under attack daily, inspires us. Shauna In addition to highlighting CREJ’s successes this year and thanking all of those engaged with CREJ, we wish to take a Marshall special moment to express our deepest and sincere gratitude to founding faculty co-director Professor Shauna Marshall. She has been instrumental in developing the strong foundations from which CREJ continues to grow and change while an emerita faculty member. Shauna will be deeply missed in the CREJ community, but we are thrilled for this next stage in her academic life—true retirement! Though we know that retirement for Shauna will simply be a continuation of her lifelong dedication to advancing racial and economic justice. Lastly, the work of racial and economic justice is needed more than ever in this moment. As CREJ looks to the future and expands its work, we humbly ask for your renewed support of and active engagement with us. May the year ahead be filled with collaborations that ground us and challenge local, state, and national efforts to diminish the rights and dignities of all. In solidarity, Professors Thalia González and Shauna Marshall Faculty Co-Directors Center for Racial and Economic Justice

Faculty Affiliates

Prithika Balakrishnan

Ralph Richard Banks

Ming H. Chen

Richard Boswell

Matt Coles

Karen Musalo

Ascanio Piomelli

Paige Joki

Christine Natoli

Reuel Schiller

Natalia Ramírez Lee

Radhika Rao

Benjamin A. Barsky

Seema N. Patel

Kate Weisburd

CREJ Research Fellows Angelyn Armistead Angelyn Armistead is a 2L at UC Law San Francisco from Pinole, California. She is a proud graduate of Howard University, where she earned a B.A. in Political Science with a minor in Psychology. At UC Law SF, Angelyn is a member of the Trial Team and serves on the executive board of the Black Law Students Association. She will return to the Contra Costa County Office of the Public Defender for her 2L summer. As a CREJ Research Assistant, Angelyn is engaged in research examining disparities in school dress code policies and adultification bias in education codes.

Quinn Chappelle Quinn Chappelle is a 2L from Westerly, Rhode Island. She graduated from Boston University in 2022 with a B.A. in Political Science. At UC Law SF, Quinn is an associate editor with the UC Law Business Journal and serves as a mentor to 1Ls through the Women’s Law Society. As a CREJ research assistant, Quinn is focusing on education law and policy, and juvenile restorative justice.

Livi Christiansen Livi Christiansen is a 2L from Dallas, Texas. She graduated from UC Berkeley in 2024 with a B.A. in Legal Studies and a Minor in Race and the Law. At UC Law SF, Livi is a member of the National Lawyer’s Guild and the Indigenous and Native American Law Student Association. As a CREJ Research Assistant, Livi is focusing on restorative justice diversion and deflection programs accessible to adults.

CREJ Research Fellows Steven Parson Steven Parson is a 2L at UC Law SF from Riverside, CA. He is a graduate from the University of Southern California, where he earned a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Law with a minor in Business Law. At UC Law SF, Steven is a member of the Moot Court team, serves on the executive board of the Black Law Students Association, and is a Staff Editor for the UC Law Journal. As a research assistant, Steven is engaged in research focusing on adultification bias and its prevalence in juvenile criminal sentencing.

Esme Caabay-Sandoval Esme Caabay-Sandoval is a 2L from Imperial, California. She graduated from UC San Diego in 2022 with a B.A. in Political Science and History. At UC Law SF, Esme is a staff editor with the UC Law Journal for Race and Economic Justice and serves as the internal vice president for the Latinx Law Student Association. As a CREJ research assistant, Esme is focusing on suspension/expulsion policies and exclusionary pushout in early learning settings.

Aidan Tomlinson Aidan Tomlinson is a 2L from Roseville, California. She graduated from UC San Diego in 2023 with a B.S. in Mathematics and a minor in Art History. At UC Law SF, Aidan is a member of the National Lawyers Guild, Human Rights and International Law Organization, and Women’s Law Society. As a CREJ Research Assistant, Aidan is focusing on education law and policy, responses to federal executive orders, and restorative justice.

2025-2026 Wiley Manuel Visiting Scholar and Professor Ralph Richard Banks is the Wiley Manuel Visiting Scholar and Professor with CREJ and a leading scholar of constitutional law, family law, and racial justice. He is the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law at Stanford Law School and a professor, by courtesy, at the Stanford Graduate School of Education. Professor Banks is the founder and faculty director of the Stanford Center for Racial Justice, which works to confront the polarization in American society through an analysis of contentious racial issues free from the orthodoxies of the Left and Right. He is the author of Is Marriage for White People? How the African American Marriage Decline

Ralph Richard Banks Affects Everyone, named one of the Top Ten Books of 2011 by the Wilson Quarterly and featured across outlets from the New York Times to NPR, and the co-author of two leading casebooks, Racial Justice and the Law and Family Law in a Changing America. His forthcoming book, The Big Sort: How College Can Make or Break the American Dream, asks whether higher education has delivered on its promise of opportunity and upward mobility. Professor Banks graduated with honors from Harvard Law School and earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from Stanford University. He clerked for federal judge Barrington D. Parker, served as the Reginald F. Lewis Fellow at Harvard Law School, and practiced at O'Melveny & Myers before joining the Stanford faculty in 1998, where he teaches constitutional law, family law, and a range of courses on race, law, and inequality. During his time with CREJ, Professor Banks taught a spring seminar, Race, Meritocracy & Education, examining how higher education intersects with race, class, and the promise of the American Dream. He urged students to examine all sides of an issue, resist ideological extremes, and ground their arguments in facts, fairness, and real-world impact—approaching even the most charged subjects as an opportunity to train better lawyers and better citizens.

“Professor Banks' Race, Meritocracy & Education seminar was excellent. He fostered an inclusive environment for students to discuss contentious topics—affirmative action, diversity, the role of meritocracy—without fear of judgment, and specifically challenged us to consider opposing viewpoints. He intertwined the law through relevant cases, and the class allowed me to engage in vigorous academic discussion on the issues we examined.” — Zeeshan Rahman, 3L

On February 10, 2026, Professor Banks delivered the 2026 Wiley Manuel Lecture, “The Big Sort: Reconciling College, Opportunity, and Racial Justice in American Society.” Drawing on the central arguments of his forthcoming book, he critiqued meritocracy as failing to achieve its goals of promoting social mobility, undermining racial hierarchy, and, most significantly, facilitating learning. Watch the lecture: https://uclawsf.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=f8544b7f-08d2-4081b36f-b3ed0153521b

“Professor Banks' scholarship and approach to racial justice are needed now more than ever. The UC Law SF community is indeed fortunate to have his expertise on our campus as this nation grapples painfully with concepts of equality and racial justice.” — CREJ Faculty Co-Director Professor Emerita Shauna Marshall

2025-2026 C. Keith Wingate Visiting Assistant Professor

Aimee Carlisle Aimee Carlisle is the incoming 2026-2028 C. Keith Wingate Visiting Assistant Professor of Law at CREJ. Her scholarship examines the intersections of criminal law, constitutional law, and race. Before joining UC Law SF, Professor Carlisle worked for a decade as a public defender. As a deputy federal public defender in Los Angeles, she represented clients charged with crimes ranging from immigration offenses to death-eligible murder at the trial level. She previously was a senior attorney at The Bronx Defenders and represented thousands of clients in state criminal court proceedings while also working on special litigation issues. She co-wrote three amicus briefs on constitutional issues that were filed before the U.S. Supreme Court. Her writings have appeared in SCOTUSBlog and The Washington Post. Professor Carlisle graduated from New York University School of Law, where she was a RootTilden-Kern Public Interest Scholar and Derrick Bell Public Service Scholar. She was awarded the Law Alumni of Color Association Convocation Prize for Public Service and served as a managing editor for the N.Y.U. Review of Law and Social Change. She earned her B.A. in Spanish and Linguistics with Highest Honors (minors in Japanese and Middle East/South Asia Studies) from the University of California, Davis. Professor Carlisle's scholarly interests include racial justice, criminal law, criminal procedure, evidence, and constitutional law. At UC Law SF, she will teach Criminal Procedure and a seminar on Race, Rights, and Firearms. Her recent scholarship includes amicus briefs in NYSRPA v. Bruen and U.S. v. Rahimi.

Overview of Events Rule of Law & Threats to Democracy Symposium On November 14, 2025, CREJ co-convened “The Rule of Law and Threats to Democracy”—a daylong symposium bringing together top legal scholars, practitioners, and public officials at a moment when the foundations of American democracy are being tested. Hosted alongside the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (CGRS), the Center on Race, Immigration, Citizenship, and Equality (RICE), and the Center for Constitutional Democracy (CFCD), the symposium examined threats to the rule of law across three panels—democracy, higher education and DEI, and the constitutional and statutory rights of non-citizens—and featured the Matthew O. Tobriner Memorial Lecture as its keynote, delivered by UC Berkeley Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky. The day opened with a fireside chat between California Attorney General Rob Bonta and UC Law SF Chancellor and Dean David Faigman, setting the tone for the conversations to follow. Watch the opening Bonta–Faigman fireside chat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np0bxic2jKw

Panel 1 — Rule of Law and Threats to Democracy: Moderated by Professor Thalía González, Panel #1 brought together legal scholars and practitioners examining how the rule of law is being stresstested daily—from threats to elections and voting rights to challenges to free speech and the basic principles of justice and equality. “In a time when the rule of law is being ‘stress tested’ on a daily basis, the panelists and distinguished speakers throughout this symposium called on lawyers, law students, and law professors to step forward and stand together with a shared purpose and collective resolve to defend the central pillars of democracy — from elections and voting to freedom of speech to upholding basic principles of justice and equality” — CREJ Faculty CoDirector, Professor Thalia González

Panel 2 — Rule of Law, DEI, and Higher Education: Moderated by RICE Faculty Director Ming Hsu Chen, Panel #2 explored the impact of recent executive actions on higher education and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives—examining how universities, states, and administrative law are responding to shifts in federal civil rights enforcement.

“Universities are places to learn about our past and equip the next generation to be responsible citizens and, at UC Law SF, responsible lawyers and leaders in society …That is why government challenges to universities undermine democracy in a lasting way.” — CREJ Affiliated Faculty & Faculty Director of RICE, Professor Chen Panel 3 — Constitutional and Statutory Rights of Non-Citizens: Moderated by CGRS Faculty Director Karen Musalo, Panel #3 examined the rights of non-citizens against the backdrop of administration policies, including efforts to end birthright citizenship, race- and language-based arrests, and the increasing use of mandatory detention without release. “The panelists made clear that non-citizens are not without rights, and that many of the administration’s policies violate those rights—but most importantly—that lawyers are needed to vindicate the rights of those affected. In educating attendees, the panelists also issued a call to action: rights don’t enforce themselves but require lawyers stepping up.” — CREJ Affiliated Faculty & Faculty Director of CGRS, Professor Karen Musalo

Overview of Events Expanding Economic Justice Symposium On March 13, 2026, CREJ hosted Expanding Economic Justice: State and Local Innovations in Worker Protection, a daylong symposium examining how state and local governments are stepping in as federal worker protections recede. Convened by CREJ Affiliated Faculty member Professor Seema Patel, the symposium brought together attorneys from state and local governments, movement lawyers, organizers, and worker advocates, alongside UC Law SF students and faculty, to explore how subnational actors can advance labor policy and economic justice from below. Panel #1 — State and Local Interventions: Legal Strategies for Worker Protections Moderated by Professor Patel, Panel #1 examined how state and local governments are stepping in where federal labor protections have receded—and what new frameworks they are advancing for worker rights. Panelists included Branden Butler, Director of the San Diego County Office of Ethics, Compliance, and Labor Standards; Matthew Goldberg, Chief Attorney of the Worker Protection Team at the San Francisco City Attorney's Office; Ellen Love, Policy & Project Analyst at the UC Berkeley Labor Center's Low-Wage Work Program; and Satoshi Yanai, Senior Assistant Attorney General at the California Department of Justice's Worker Rights and Fair Labor Section. “The symposium was an incredibly rare opportunity to convene some of the most dedicated and respected people in CA in the field of government labor enforcement and worker advocacy to think and innovate about how the government and community can find new ways to address pervasive wage theft, including inspiring the next generation of lawyers. It was an honor to be part of Professor Patel's convening and exchange ideas with my colleagues and UC Law SF students.” — Branden Butler, Director of the San Diego County Office of Ethics, Compliance, and Labor Standards Panel #2 — Movement Lawyering in Action: Building Worker Power Through Community-State Collaboration Moderated by Brenda Muñoz, Executive Director of the UC Berkeley Labor Center, Panel #2 brought together movement lawyers, worker advocates, and state and local actors to examine how communities and government agencies can co-create strategies that make public institutions more responsive to worker-led demands. Panelists included Rachel Deutsch of Local Progress; Winnie Kao, Senior Counsel for Impact Litigation at the Asian Law Caucus; Minsu Longiaru, Senior Staff Attorney for Worker Power at PowerSwitch Action; and Nayantara Mehta, former Director of the Worker Power Program at the National Employment Law Project.

Keynote Address Betty Hung, Assistant Deputy Chief of the California Labor Commissioner's Office, delivered the keynote address over lunch. Hung has spent her career building government-community-labor partnerships and previously served as Senior Counselor to the Secretary of Labor at the U.S. Department of Labor.

Hosting CREJ's Expanding Economic Justice symposium was a highlight of this academic year. In a moment where workers' rights and labor standards are paramount to empowering communities— especially low-wage communities of color—bringing together such dedicated practitioners from state and local governments and workers' rights advocacy organizations was inspiring. Learning from participants how creative lawyering and organizing can bring about economic justice illustrated how strong advocates bring the law to life, and inspired students, faculty, and practitioners alike. — CREJ Affiliated Faculty, Professor Seema Patel

Webinar Series CREJ was excited to host a new webinar series this year, bringing timely conversations to a virtual audience. Recordings of each session are available below. “Logged In, Left Out: Racial Inequality in Remote Work” — Professor Natalia Ramírez Lee (UC Law SF), with Professor Nick Bloom (Stanford), Ariane Hegewisch, and Binderiya Byambasuren. Watch the recording: https://uclawsf.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx? id=093ad71a-8341-4719-84db-b3450161d61e “Police Surveillance and the Perils of Technology” — Professor Prithika Balakrishnan (UC Law SF). Watch the recording: https://uclawsf.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx? id=03c373a4-118d-4e75-a4b5-b379012cc204 “Juvenile Court Fines and Fees: Unseen Shackles” — Angie Jiménez and Jasmine Richardson-Rushin (National Center for Youth Law). Watch the recording: https://uclawsf.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx? id=b923a4f2-2098-456e-b6e3-b42d017b6265

Looking Ahead – Fall 2026 AdDRESS for Success: Adopting Affirming and Legally Compliant Dress Codes as Positive School Climate and Health Protective Policy Interventions Dress and grooming policies play an important role in shaping students' experiences and educational opportunities. Research has shown that these rules can be a targeted driver of school pushout—with harsh consequences falling most heavily on Black girls. Through the perspective of experts with both professional and personal lived expertise, this panel will explore contemporary surveys of school districts' dress-and-grooming rules and their lasting impacts, and outline components of health-affirming policies that protect students from discrimination, safeguard their rights to expression, and support success in school settings.

Litigating Adultification Bias in Criminal Cases Adultification bias—the perception that young people of color are older, less innocent, and more culpable than their white peers—has profound consequences when these youth become subject to criminal prosecution. Drawing on years of work at the Center for Civil Rights and Critical Justice at Seattle University School of Law, this webinar will explore how literature on adultification bias has been leveraged to advocate for legal standards and processes that account for these effects. Speakers will discuss judicial decisions across jurisdictions acknowledging adultification bias, the legal rules that emerged from those decisions, and possible paths for expanding this advocacy into other points in the criminal legal process.

CREJ Research & Publications This year, CREJ-affiliated scholars and student fellows produced a robust body of research. Selected publications include: Mass Surveillance as Racialized Control (Prithika Balakrishnan, 2025) Prevention Beyond Deterrence (Benjamin A. Barsky, 2026) Retrenchment, Segregation, and Public Education: A Five-Year Analysis of State Exclusionary School Discipline Legislation (Thalía González & Will Martel, 2026) Flexible Work, Rigid Discrimination (Natalia Ramírez Lee, 2025) Governance & Guardrails: Artificial Intelligence and Low-Wage Workers (Seema Patel, 2025) Citizenship and Civic Engagement Among New Americans: Arab, Asian, and Latino Americans During a Shifting Political Landscape (Ming Hsu Chen, Adrian Ballesteros, Emily Cole, Joy Min, 2025) Betwixt and Between: Restorative Justice, DEI, and Education Carcerality (Thalía González & Alyssa Scott, 2025) Protecting Restorative Justice: An Analysis of Confidentiality, Admissibility and Privilege Provisions in State Legislation (2001–2025) (Thalía González & Aidan Tomlinson, 2026)

Student co-author reflections “Working for CREJ has been one of the most meaningful and fulfilling experiences for me at UC Law SF. Through CREJ, I have had the opportunity to contribute to restorative justice scholarship on school discipline, evidentiary protections, and, currently, juvenile justice diversion, as well as to increase informational accessibility for state and local education leaders. Engaging in academic and institutional collaboration has greatly enhanced my analytical, research, and writing skills.” — CREJ Research Assistant, Aidan Tomlinson, 3L “Having the opportunity to co-author a publication with Professor González—someone who profoundly shaped my understanding of and approach to law—was an unparalleled experience. Producing the article not only contributed to my academic and professional development, but also demonstrated the important role of scholarship in calling attention to potentially unforeseen consequences in a fast-changing legal landscape.” — Alyssa Faith Scott, UC Law SF, 2025 “The opportunity to co-author articles with Professor González was unmistakably the highlight of my experience at UC Law SF. Our projects allowed me to develop as a legal writer and engage with questions that felt urgent and consequential, not hypothetical. Working alongside a scholar of Professor González's caliber was a formative experience—she modeled what it looks like to be both analytically rigorous and genuinely invested in the work.” — Will Martel, UC Law SF, 2025

Center Publications The Center for Economic and Racial Justice performs vital, increasingly rare, and cutting-edge work to track the rise of legislation that harms the health and civil rights of children by authorizing more suspension and expulsion in public schools. Such research is invaluable in documenting laws that traumatize children, worsen racial disparities, and defy evidence-based best practices. Such research helps to protect lives that are dismissed, misunderstood, and forgotten. — Professor Nicole Tuchinda, Saint Louis University School of Law

Research Brief: How School-Based Fines and Fees Policies Harm Graduation (Center for Racial and Economic Justice, 2026) FAQ: Educational Fines and Fees in K–12 Public Schools (Center for Racial and Economic Justice, 2025) State Restorative Justice Legislation 2020– 2025: Confidentiality, Admissibility & Privilege (Center for Racial and Economic Justice, 2025) Opportunities Lost: The Hidden Cost of Public Education in Pennsylvania K–12 Schools (Center for Racial and Economic Justice, 2025) ‘Common Sense Discipline’ is Not EvidenceBased School Discipline: The Misalignment of Executive Order 14280 and Education Research (Center for Racial and Economic Justice, 2025) FAQ: Remote Work Racial Discrimination (Center for Racial and Economic Justice, 2025) Exclusionary School Discipline and Student Health and Wellbeing: A Spotlight Research Brief (Center for Racial and Economic Justice, 2025) Exclusionary School Discipline State Legislative Trend Analysis (Center for Racial and Economic Justice, 2025)

Community Collaboration Hub CREJ also continues its collaboration with Center Affiliated Scholar Paige Joki and the Education Law Center – PA. Current projects focus on protections from exclusionary discipline for early learners and dress and grooming code policies. “The goal of this work is to understand better how seemingly neutral policies can disproportionately affect individuals based on race, culture, gender, and identity. What has been most meaningful to me is seeing how legal research can support efforts to create more equitable environments. Through this project, I have gained a deeper appreciation for the role that inclusive and intentional research plays in advancing social justice and policy reform.” – CREJ Research Assistant, Angelyn Armistead, 3L

CREJ is also engaged in new research and collaboration with the National Center for Community and Restorative Justice to support the development of a Key Insights Series.

CREJ serves as a hub for community collaboration. This year, in partnership with the Brookings Institution, CREJ co-developed the Trump K-12 Education Litigation Tracker—a living resource that tracks legal challenges to federal K-12 education actions—and its associated materials.

Brookings Institution-CREJ litigation tracker: https://www.brookings.edu/articles/introducing -the-trump-k-12-education-litigation-tracker/ CREJ has been an invaluable partner in the development and upkeep of the Trump K-12 Education Litigation Tracker. Through the collaboration with CREJ, we have been able to translate CREJ's rigorous, timely, and accessible legal scholarship into tools and resources for education policy audiences searching for up-to-date information in a rapidly evolving legal landscape. The Brookings webinar to discuss the resources co-authored with CREJ and the broader legal landscape education leaders are facing was one of Brookings' most viewed webinars in 2025 (with over 1,000 participants). - Rachel M. Perera, Fellow, Brookings Institution

The regulatory tracker developed by the Brookings Institute and the Center for Racial and Economic Justice (CREJ), which tracks not only significant executive actions related to education but also litigation efforts challenging this unilateral action, has been invaluable to me for staying abreast of federal administrative actions and their implications for access to education. - Professor Janel George, Associate Professor of Law and Founding Director of the Racial Equity in Education Law & Policy Clinic, Georgetown Law

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