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National Lawyers Guild Disorientation Dinner
@ SLS: Russo Commons - Student Law Lounge 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAAll 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 […]
SAIR Immigration Court Observation Training Session
@ SLS: Room 90 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAThe 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 […]
American Constitution Society: Progressive Lawyering Careers Panel
@ SLS: Room 280B Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA7:00 - 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. […]
Loan Repayment Assistance Program Information Session
@ SLS: Room 320D Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAPlease 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. […]
Fighting for Undocumented Workers’ Rights in the Age of Trump
@ SLS: Room 285 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAJoin 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 […]
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, CASince 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
NLG DisOrientation
@ SLS: Room 290 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CADisOrientation 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, […]
Law and Social Movements
@ SLS: Multiple Rooms Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAPlease 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, CANLG 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 […]
Makeup and Marxism
@ SLS: Room 85 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAPlease 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, CAPlease 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 […]
Week Against Mass Incarceration 2022: A Conversation with the TGI Justice Project
@ SLS: Room 90 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAJoin 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, CAGuess 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, CAAlec 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 […]
PalTrek Shareback
@ SLS: Room 190 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CACome 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 […]
Demystifying Early Career Choices: Big Law, Public Interest & Government
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CAThis 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 […]
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, CAThe 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, CAPlease 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 […]