There is an exciting movement for democratizing land access afoot. Many are even drawing on the historical legacy of integral land reform, and asking what it would take to do the same in California. What does it mean to democratize land access, truly? In what ways does property law shape and perhaps even limit our imagination? If we are committed to Indigenous rematriation, constructive reparations, and life-affirming labor, what would have to change?

This webinar is meant to take a practical look at what, absent constitutional or territorial reform, we would have to navigate as we continue liberating land for our communities. We will look at the big statues, institutions, and cultural attitudes that shape our relationship to land, and which of those relationships we can change in order to change the land, too.

This activity is approved by the California State Bar for 1 MCLE credit.

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Presented by Dorian Payán 

Dorian is the Law Center's Director of Holistic Land Relations. Dorian focuses on food systems work through the framework of agroecology. Dorian became a lawyer after years of working as a farmer, and seeing a drastic need to support enterprises in developing cooperative and vertically integrated ecosystems free from exploitation. Dorian's work is also focused on supporting the development of a land ethic that is based on rematriation, and that can serve to create land relations where all people can belong to the land.