Creating Justice: What Works and New Will

The Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law at New York University School of Law is pleased to invite you to Creating Justice: What Works and New Will on Wednesday, February 25, 2026 from 1:00pm-2:30pm EST / 10:00am-11:30am PST, a webinar with Dr. Alan Curtis, President and CEO of The Eisenhower Foundation. 

In 2024, Dr. Curtis edited Creating Justice in a Multiracial Democracy: New Will for Evidence?Based Policies That Work, an update to the 1968 Kerner Commission report where law scholars and practitioners argue that the core challenge today of addressing stark racial and economic inequality, mass incarceration, and bias-based policing is not a lack of solutions, but a lack of collective courage and coalition?building to implement what we know works.

In this webinar, we will ground attendees in the history of the Kerner Commission report, threading a throughline to the disquieting moment that America finds itself in today, and explore the places of investment and intervention to which our movements can devote their resources. Dr. Curtis will be joined by a couple of directors from the Race and Center Law Network, who will also share the efforts they have undertaken to realize the promises of the Kerner Commission report in their legal academic centers, scholarship, and law practice.

Please register here. We look forward to having you join us!

The event is cosponsored by: the Center for Racial and Economic Justice at UC Law San Francisco; the Center on Law, Race & Policy at Duke University School of Law; the Center for Civil Rights and Critical Justice at Seattle University School of Law; the Center on Race Law and Justice at Fordham University School of Law; the Center for Security, Race, and Rights at Rutgers University Law School; the Center for Race Immigration Citizenship Equality (RICE) at UC Law San Francisco (Hastings); and the Critical Race Studies Program at UCLA School of Law.