DisOrientation with NLG
@ SLS: Room 95 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesDisOrientation is a ~re-oriented welcome~ to law school! Join National Lawyers Guild for a casual discussion on movement lawyering, getting involved in NLG, finding a path that reflects your values, ways to approach law school and the law, and much more! This is a longtime tradition at SLS and a great way to find community […]
Working in a Warming World
@ SLS: Room 85 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin Stanford Law Students for Climate Action and National Lawyers Guild for a conversation with leading experts and practitioners in labor rights advocacy about the challenges the climate crisis presents for worker safety. How can federal and state governments promulgate and enforce heat safety regulations for the 21st century? How can we root out abusive […]
Waging a Battle for Human Rights in the U.S. South: Project South’s Protect & Defend Initiative
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesOn Monday, February 20th at 12:45-2 pm, Azadeh Shahshahani, the Legal & Advocacy Director of Project South (Atlanta, GA) will be in conversation with Professor Jennifer Chacón, Bruce Tyson Mitchell Professor of Law at Stanford Law School. Azadeh will discuss her career and the work of the Defend & Protect Initiative of Project South, which […]
National Lawyers’ Guild Disorientation
@ SLS: Room 90 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe National Lawyers' Guild is, in its own words, "the nation's oldest and largest progressive bar association" and "the first one in the United States to be racially integrated." Its student chapter at Stanford Law hosts an annual Disorientation event to help progressive and radical law students find their people, and help them collectively navigate […]
Demystifying Early Career Choices: Big Law, Public Interest & Government
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThis panel discussion will demystify the role the first few years after graduation play in the arc of a legal career. Is Big Law the best place to get professional legal training? What are the tradeoffs (financial and otherwise) involved in choosing private or public sectors? Is starting in the private or public sector the […]
Law and Social Movements
@ SLS: Multiple Rooms Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesPlease join us for a lunch discussion about radical lawyering and movement frameworks that inspire us. We'll dissect overarching frameworks and specific examples, joined by recent grad A.D. Sean Lewis (abolitionist organizer and EJW Fellow at Disability Rights California). Let's dream of something better together. Sponsored by Stanford's National Lawyers Guild, Black Law Students Association, […]
Coffee Hang with NLG
@ Stanford: Meyer GreenJoin the SLS National Lawyers Guild chapter for a very casual coffee chat at Meyer Green. This will be an opportunity to meet and socialize, and to chat about ways in which we can stay true to our values as law students and future members of the legal profession. If you’re interested in movement lawyering, […]
Law and Transformative Change with Dean Spade
OnlinePlease join us this Thursday (5/27) at 1pm PT / 4pm ET for a short lecture & participatory Q&A with Dean Spade. The legal profession often works to maintain rather than transform systems of maldistribution of wealth & resources. How should law students grapple with this reality and contribute to poor- and BIPOC-led mass movements […]
Loan Repayment Assistance Program Information Session
@ SLS: Room 320D Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesPlease join Associate Dean Frank Brucato, Associate Director of Financial Aid Heather Trujillo Smith, and Anna Wang from the Levin Center for an overview of SLS' Loan Repayment Assistance Program. This event is intended only for current JD students. SLS' chapter of the National Lawyers' Guild is co-sponsoring this event and plans to offer lunch. […]
American Constitution Society: Progressive Lawyering Careers Panel
@ SLS: Room 280B Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United States7:00 - 8:30 pm The American Constitution Society and the National Lawyers' Guild present: Wednesday, November 13 7:00 PM Room 280B RSVP here Please join the American Constitution Society and the National Lawyers' Guild at a panel to showcase the broad range of progressive lawyering careers beyond what you are ordinarily exposed to in law school. […]
SAIR Immigration Court Observation Training Session
@ SLS: Room 90 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe Immigration Court Observation Program (ICOP) of the National Lawyers Guild San Francisco Chapter seeks to bring greater transparency and accountability to immigration court by training volunteers to attend and observe immigration court hearings and document any violations of immigrants’ due process rights. This process of observing and documenting immigration court hearings allows advocates to […]
National Lawyers Guild Disorientation Dinner
@ SLS: Russo Commons - Student Law Lounge 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesAll students are invited to this school year kickoff dinner to celebrate the SLS public interest community. Returning students will discuss current social justice issues and public interest opportunities at SLS.
2019 Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month Keynote
@ SLS: Manning Lounge 2nd Floor, Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesAnnual keynote speech and dinner to commemorate 2019 AAPI Heritage Month celebrations at SLS. Come hear Keynote Speaker Cecillia Wang, a deputy legal director at the national ACLU and directs the Center for Democracy, which encompasses the ACLU’s work on immigrants’ rights, voting rights, national security, human rights, and speech, privacy and technology. Ms. Wang […]
Litigating the Resistance: Different Approaches to Impact Litigation
@ SLS: Room 90 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin National Lawyers Guild, the American Constitutional Society, and the Plaintiff Lawyers’ Association for a lunch talk on the role of affirmative litigation in enforcing the law and defending the rights of the vulnerable, and options for careers in impact litigation. Panelists include Rachel Dempsey, a lawyer with the plaintiff-side employment firm Outten and Golden; […]
Fighting for the Unhoused with Litigation and Policy Reform
@ SLS: Russo Commons - Student Law Lounge 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin the SLS National Lawyers Guild for an informal dinner event to learn about current efforts to defend unhoused bay area residents. Speakers include Kelley Cutler, an organizer leading policy reform campaigns in San Francisco, and EmilyRose Johns, a civil rights attorney defending unhoused individuals in the east bay. Attendees are encouraged to donate to […]
National Lawyers Guild Legal Observer Training
@ SLS: Room 90 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesSLS National Lawyers Guild is hosting a legal observer training with EmilyRose Johns, a civil rights lawyer from Oakland. Students will learn how to document interactions between protesters and law enforcement officers at political demonstrations to protect the rights of participants. Dinner will be served. Please RSVP: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScbBFZxbC7eceodINhotQX_ISIhCombfwtd6_344TJk0Gy4Hg/viewform?usp=sf_link
Disorientation – NLG / Dem Soc
@ SLS: Russo Commons - Student Law Lounge 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe National Lawyers Guild and Democratic Socialists will be hosting a structured mixer for new 1Ls and LLMs to meet upperclassmen involved in activism, social justice, and public interest. This event will transition to the Munger BBQ pit for food and drinks in coordination with SLA's TGIF event.
Rapid Response Training
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThe SLS chapter of the National Lawyers Guild is bringing People Acting in Community Together to train interested persons in how to verify, observe, and document raids as well as connect people to immigration resources. Once trained, attendees will have the ability to join the Santa Clara County Rapid Response Network. Dinner will be served.
Stanford National Lawyers Guild Presents: Disorientation
@ SLS: Room 90 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin the Stanford Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) for "Disorientation" on Friday, October 20th in Room 90 from 12:45 - 2:00. Lunch will be served. As we move through the quarter, it is very easy to get lost in the maze and intricacies of case law, and lose sight of the social context and consequences […]
National Lawyers Guild: Legal Observer Training
@ SLS: Room 180 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesNLG is proud to host a Legal Observer (LO) training, a program designed to enable individuals to express their political views as fully as possible without unconstitutional disruption or interference by the police and with the fewest possible criminal consequences. Â Participants in the training will be taught how to effectively Legally Observe at demonstrations and […]
“The 13th” on the 13th
@ SLS: Room 90 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesCome join the Stanford Law Black Law Students Association and National Lawyers Guild chapters for a screening of THE 13TH, a new documentary on Netflix.  Directed by Ava DuVernay, the director of Selma, the film focuses on the role of race and the legacy of slavery in our criminal justice system.  There will be snacks.
Dream Defenders: Lawyering for the Movement for Black Lives
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesIn the age of #BlackLivesMatter, attorneys and law students who care about advancing racial justice face major questions about how they can best use their skills in support of the movement. Join two attorneys who are members of the Dream Defenders, Jenn Ubiera and Meena Jagganath, to hear about their paths in lawyering for racial […]
Gentrification, Women of Color, and the Arts: A Fundraiser for Betti Ono Gallery
@ SLS: Russo Commons - Student Law Lounge 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesRapid gentrification in cities across the US has had a marked effect on communities of color. In Oakland, where rents are growing at a rate faster than almost anywhere else in the country, gentrification and displacement are changing the ability of communities who have helped to create and sustain this vibrant and artistic city to […]
Movement Lawyering: National Lawyers Guild Training with Chris Bridges Michelle Rodriguez, and Daniel Saver
@ SLS: Room 95 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin the Stanford National Lawyers Guild for the third event in our series on movement lawyering. This event will feature Chris Bridges from Equal Justice Society, Michelle Natividad Rodriguez from the National Employment Law Project, and Daniel Saver from Community Legal Services of East Palo Alto. These attorneys will talk about the ways that they […]
What is Prison Abolition? Brown Bag Lunch
PICC , United StatesJoin the Stanford National Lawyers Guild and the Stanford Criminal Law Society for a brown-bag discussion about prison abolition. What is prison abolition? What alternatives to prison exist, and what […]