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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 […]
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 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 […]
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 example through worker cooperatives and community land trusts? Moreover, moving past colonial capitalist economies will also require decolonizing and returning stolen land. What does it […]
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 […]
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.
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.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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.
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Immigration Court Observation Program Training
@ SLS: Room 230 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesNLG and SIHRLA are hosting this virtual training for those interested in participating in NLG-SF's Immigration Court Observation Program (ICOP) this spring. The training will last 1 hour and there […]
Poverty Skolarship and Homefulness: Learning from Poor Peoples' Solutions for Land Liberation
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesPlease join us for a special event to hear from an incredible, inspiring activist in the Bay Area. Guest speaker Tiny Gray-Garcia is a formerly unhoused and incarcerated poverty scholar, […]
Lunch Talk with Alec Karakatsanis
@ SLS: Room 95 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesPlease join NLG on Thursday, May 11 at 1 pm for a discussion with Alec Karakatsanis. Lunch will be provided upon RSVP. Alec will speak about the role of lawyers and the media in the movement to abolish jails and prisons. He is the founder and executive director of Civil Rights Corps, a non-profit fighting […]
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 […]
Human Rights In Crisis: In Conversation with Omar Shakir
@ SLS: Room 290 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin Omar Shakir (JD ‘13), the Israel and Palestine Director of HRW, as he discusses human rights in the context of current events.
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 the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR). The speakers will discuss the three Palestine-related cases currently at the International Court of Justice (South Africa v. Israel, […]