How We Can Practice Wealth Redistribution
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesA space for those curious how to grapple with wealth privilege or what to do with excess income after law school. Can we use our resources to shift power to frontline communities fighting for change? Can we learn to feel safe in letting money flow?
Progressive Careers in Housing Law
@ SLS: Room 180 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesPlease join Stanford ACS & NLG on Wednesday, February 22 from 6:15-7:30 pm in Room 180 for a conversation with three Bay Area attorneys who specialize in housing law. Our panelists include Stacy Townsend, Senior Attorney in the Housing Program at Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto, Tim Iglesias, Professor Emeritus at USF School […]
Lunch Discussion: From Extractive Economies to Solidarity Economies
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesHow to Decommodify Land, Housing, Finance, Work, Law and everything else. Lunch discussion on how lawyers can support movements for transformative economic change, away from hierarchy and towards democracy. For example, using transactional law tools to help worker-owned businesses, Black and Indigenous land stewards, and cooperatives of all kinds. This casual discussion will be led […]
Keeping Momentum as an Activist Lawyer
@ SLS: Room 180 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesPlease join Stanford ACS & NLG on Tuesday, November 1 from 12:45-2:00 pm in Room 180 for a conversation with four Bay Area attorneys who have devoted their legal careers to driving forward progressive change. Our panelists include Easha Anand, the Edwin A. Heafey, Jr. Visiting Professor in Stanford's Supreme Court Litigation Clinic, Sharon Terman, […]
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 […]
Derecka Purnell Over Zoom
OnlineDerecka Purnell, author of Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom, will speak over Zoom to an audience of Stanford community members about the prison abolition movement and her new book. Time will be provided for questions and answers at the end of the event. Sponsored by the Stanford Speakers Bureau.
How to Start Your Own Small Community Law Practices
OnlinePlease join NLG for a Zoom discussion with attorneys who have established their own public interest practices — either solo practices or small attorney collectives. Both public interest transactional and litigation lawyers will be featured.
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 […]
PalTrek Shareback
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesCome hear from SLS students who went to Palestine over spring break with PalTrek about their experiences there, including what they learned from activists they met with in the West Bank and what they observed while moving through the occupied territories. Students with all levels of familiarity with the occupation are welcome. This will also […]
NLG Lunch w/ Alec Karakatsanis
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesAlec Karakatsanis will speak about the role of lawyers in the movement to abolish jails and prisons. Alec is the founder and executive director of Civil Rights Corps, a non-profit fighting injustices in the criminal-legal system around the country. CRC has designed and litigated innovative constitutional civil rights cases challenging various aspects of the punishment […]
Alternative Legal Research
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesGuess what? Lexis and Westlaw are just two of the legal research databases available to you as a law student! This is a two-part session. The first part will be about databases that don't support ICE, presented by SAIR and NLG. The second part will be an interactive workshop on tips and tricks for research […]
Week Against Mass Incarceration 2022: A Conversation with the TGI Justice Project
@ SLS: Room 90 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin us for a conversation with TGI Justice Project's Director of Communications Eli Dru and TGIJP's Zy'aire Nassirah about abolition and the fight against mass incarceration. Lunch will be provided.
Makeup and Marxism
@ SLS: Room 90 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesPlease join NLG for a special makeup tutorial by a talented board member, alongside a discussion of Marxism. No experience with either necessary! Participants encouraged to follow along and do their own makeup. Dinner will be served for attendees.
Makeup and Marxism
@ SLS: Room 85 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesPlease join NLG for a special makeup tutorial by a talented board member, alongside a discussion of Marxism. No experience with either necessary! Participants are welcome to follow along and do their own makeup. Emphasis on Black and Queer Marxism, and how they can inform public interest law practice. Dinner will be served for attendees.
Just Transition Reading Group: Towards Solidarity Economies and Decolonization
OnlineA just transition will require moving away from extractive economies towards regenerative ones. What would it look like for land, work, food, energy, and money to be collectively stewarded, for […]
NLG Coffee Chat
@ SLS: Cooley Courtyard 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesNLG is hosting a casual reading week study break! Stop by if you want to chat about movement law and radical lawyering, or if you just want to come hang and clear your mind of finals stress for an hour. (Good) snacks & coffee will be provided.
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, […]
NLG DisOrientation
@ SLS: Room 290 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesDisOrientation is a longtime NLG tradition! A re-oriented welcome to law school and a heinous legal profession. Join NLG for a casual discussion on movement lawyering, getting involved in NLG, staying radical in law school, becoming a legal observer, and much more! This event is targeted towards 1Ls though all are welcome. Dinner will be […]
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 […]
Sustainable Economies and the Law Panel
OnlineInterested in the role a legal education can play in grassroots movements pushing for systemic and economic change? Join us for a discussion on March 5th at 11am PT / 2pm ET featuring: - Janelle Orsi from the Sustainable Economies Law Center - Josephine Foo from Indian Country Grassroots Support - Angela Aguilar from Movement […]
Break the Law to Make the Law: Climate Activism and the Courts
OnlineKelsey Skaggs, Executive Director of Climate Defense Project, works with climate change activists who want to use the legal system. She will discuss the role of nonviolent civil disobedience in the current political situation and how the climate movement is using this tactic. Kelsey will also discuss the role of lawyers in the climate movement […]
Combining Legal Action and Policy Reform for Justice: The Story of the Three Strikes Project
@ SLS: Room 180 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesSince Mike Romano started the Three Strikes Project at Stanford in 2006, the project has contributed to impact litigation, provided direct representation to hundreds of clients, and authored two successful ballot initiatives resulting in reduced sentences for over 10,000 incarcerated people. Learn about how the Three Strikes Project combines policy action, empirical research, and direct […]
Fighting for Undocumented Workers’ Rights in the Age of Trump
@ SLS: Room 285 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin SAIR for a conversation with Angela Breining, a Skadden Fellow with Centro Legal de la Raza, about current issues facing undocumented workers in California. Angela will discuss advocacy efforts for day laborers and immigrant workers in the Bay Area service industry as well as her new project to provide legal services to farmworkers in […]
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. […]