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Students Talk Back: NLG Law School Disorientation
@ SLS: Room 280A Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesPlease join us for a panel of fellow progressive students speaking about why they came to law school, their experiences in the 1L classroom, and how to express and maintain a social justice identity at Stanford Law School.
SAIR Teach-in Planning Meeting
@ SLS: Room 285 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesCome join Stanford Advocates for Immigrants' Rights (SAIR) for a planning meeting to sketch out topics for the remaining anti-Trump teach-ins.
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 […]
Critical Resistance Police Abolition Workshop
@ SLS: Room 180 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesOn February 27, Critical Resistance will lead a workshop that looks at the role and history of policing in the United States, its impact on communities in the Bay Area, and how people have resisted and challenged police practices that target low-income people, people of color, and immigrants. This workshop will go over strategies for […]
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 […]
NLG Legal Observer Training
@ SLS: Room 95 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesStanford National Lawyer's Guild is hosting a legal observer training.
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.
Prisoner Legal Services Pro Bono – Cultural Competency Training
@ SLS: Room 285 Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThis is a mandatory cultural competency training for all new pro bono volunteers with Prisoner Legal Services. This is required to properly educate and prepare the volunteers for their pro bono experience.
PLS Initial Volunteer Training
@ SLS: Room 185 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesThis is the initial training with staff attorneys from Prisoner Legal Services for all new members of the pro bono project.
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.
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
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 […]
Human Rights at the Border: Student Perspectives from Al Otro Lado
@ SLS: Room 180 Crown Quadrangle 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesSAIR and NLG would like to invite you to hear perspectives and reflections from students who have worked in Tijuana with Al Otro Lado this year. Our aim is to provide a space to educate folks about the current on-the-ground situation in Tijuana, as well as to discuss questions such as how to provide trauma-informed […]
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; […]
Perspectives on empire, climate change, and forced migration from the Marshall Islands
@ SLS: Room 280A Crown Quadrangle, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA, United StatesJoin JD student Autumn Bordner and PhD student Caroline Ferguson for a discussion of their work on the intersection of climate change, empire, and environmental justice in the Marshall Islands. Bordner and Ferguson will first share perspectives from interviews conducted over the past year in the Marshall Islands, before discussing legal avenues that the Marshallese […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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, […]