At the the 2023 Corporate Capture of the Legal System Conference at Harvard Law School, Lisa Fanning moderated a roundtable conversation among a brilliant group of law students, who discuss their Special-Edition contributions to The [F]law on the topics of the corporate capture of legal education and the legal profession. It’s a revealing and important conversation.
Corporate Capture of Legal Media
Here’s a list of the panelists and links to their articles:
- Logan Campbell, What Good is Pro Bono?
- Lisa Fanning, The Corporate Roots of Conservative Legal Thought
- Rosie Kaur, Big Law’s Capture of Students of Color
- Noelle Musolino, The Price of a Harvard Lawyer
- Ellie Olsen, The Dirty Work of America’s Legal Darlings
- Sam Perri, The Corporate Origins of Common Good Constitutionalism
- Marty Strauss,In Search of Sunlight: How Corporate Law Careers Outshine All Else at Elite Law Schools
The various conference events centered around the corrupting influence and harmful effects of corporate interests on legal education, the legal profession, legal journalism, and the law more broadly. The conference also spotlighted types of practice and practitioners whose work challenges and counteracts corporate power and holds corporations accountable. The event was intended to join other ongoing efforts to expand the coalition of law students, lawyers, and legal journalists devoted to addressing the problems of excessive corporate power through education, organization, storytelling, and litigation.
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