The Role of Lawyers in Social Movements
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesPlease join NLG for lunch and discussion with Alec Karakatsanis 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 […]
Palestine in the Law: Understanding Current Cases at the ICJ and Federal Courts
@ SLS: Room 290 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin Stanford Law Students for Justice in Palestine for a lunch event with George Bisharat, Professor of Law at UC Law San Francisco, and Astha Sharma Pokharel, Staff Attorney at […]
Legal Observer Training
OnlineThe National Lawyers Guild-San Francisco is hosting a legal observer training on Thursday, May 2nd from 1-2pm PST. Legal observers are trained volunteers who support the legal rights of activists. […]
Protecting Gig Economy Worker in the Wake of Proposition 22
@ SLS: Room 280B Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesPlease join the Stanford National Lawyers Guild and Stanford Law & Political Economy for a discussion of the law of gig labor, in California and around the country, featuring Veena Dubal (UC Irvine Law) and Robin Tholin (Altshuler Berzon). We'll discuss attempts by gig workers, like delivery drivers, to secure workplace protections and collective bargaining […]