Justice Fair Come out to hear members of the SJL class pitch exciting proposals to advance systemic justice on issuses like prisoner’s rights, disability justice, and HLS public service funding. Featuring: Tuhin Chakraborty, Clara Chiu, Jessenia Class, Jack Haney, David
Climate Justice
Come to our information session to learn more about systemic justice lawyering
“Climate change is not a tragedy, it’s a crime.” Could this increasingly common refrain among climate activists be more than just a slogan? Years of reporting show that fossil fuel companies like ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, and BP knew their business
Read the “storty” about the 2023 Tortys at HLS Today, here. The event has since grown into one of the semester’s leading social events. In addition to showcasing creative film presentations, a number of students also displayed their talents, ranging
Join us for a lunch talk and conversation about the Trojan horse of "police reform."
Systemic Justice Teach-Ins: Building Power to Challenge Injustice Cop City – Organizing for Justice (Oct. 21, 2023) “Organizing is the slow work of building power by building a base, bringing people together, developing their leadership, identifying community problems together and
The first Saturday Systemic Justice Teach-In–“Storytelling for Justice: East Palestine”–was a great success. After Jessenia Class and Simone Unwalla welcomed everyone, Jon Hanson provided a short lecture to help frame the day’s events. He described the legal systems two-sided justice
Systemic Justice Teach-Ins: Building Power to Challenge Injustice The Systemic Justice Project is helping to organize and host several “Systemic Justice Teach-Ins” during the fall of 2023. The teach-ins, which will be open to students from area law schools and
Jessenia Class’s new article on The [F]law uncovers how corporate actors funding Cop City under the guise of public safety and “neighborhood prosperity” are harming the very people they claim to serve. Read the article here. “Foundations and corporate actors
Agricultural interests dominate California’s political scene and the state’s water supply. Meanwhile, many farmworker communities in the Central Valley go without water. Without reform soon, California is headed into a dire water catastrophe. Read Isa Badia Bellinger‘s compelling article on