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Heyman Center Presents: Chat Gd Ai In Law Practice, Heyman Center On Corporate Governance

Flyers 2023-2024

Interested in artificial intelligence? Want to know how law firms are leveraging AI? Can AI replace the modern lawyer? Come join us with 2 experts from Gunderson Dettmer: Joe Green, Chief Innovation Officer and Laura Chao, Practice Innovation Attorney.

Public Defenders As Gatekeepers Of Freedom, Alma Magaña

Articles

Nearly half a million people are currently held in pretrial detention across the United States. Legal scholarship has explored many of the actors and factors contributing to the deprivation of freedom of those presumed innocent. And while the scholarship in these areas is rich, it has primarily focused on certain system actors—including judges, prosecutors, and profit-seeking sheriffs—structural concerns, such as the role race plays in who is being held in pretrial detention, or critiques of the failed promise of algorithms to deliver on bias-free bail determinations. But relatively little scholarship exists about the contributions of public defenders to this deprivation. …

Making A Career Working For Lgbtq+ Rights: An Alumni Panel, Cardozo Dean's Office, Cardozo Outlaw

Event Invitations 2023

Dean Melanie Leslie ’91 will moderate a panel of distinguished alumni who will speak about their experiences working to advance LGBTQ+ rights in the legal world. They will discuss cases and projects they have worked on, how recent high-profile legislation targeting the LGBTQ+ community has impacted their work and provide advice for law students who want to enter the field.

Panelists:

• Taylor Brown ’17 is a Staff Attorney in the ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Project.
• Jason Starr ’10 has over 15 years of experience as an attorney, educator and strategist in the fight for human rights.
• Debra Guston ’88 is …

Unsettling Human Rights Clinical Pedagogy And Practice In Settler Colonial Contexts, Jocelyn Getgen Kestenbaum, Caroline Bishop Laporte

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In settler colonial contexts, law and educational institutions operate as structures of oppression, extraction, erasure, disempowerment, and continuing violence against colonized peoples. Consequently, clinical legal advocacy often can reinforce coloniality--the logic that perpetuates structural violence against individuals and groups resisting colonization and struggling for survival as peoples. Critical legal theory, including Third World Approaches to International Law (“TWAIL”), has long exposed colonial laws and practices that entrench discriminatory, racialized power structures and prevent transformative international human rights advocacy. Understanding and responding to these critiques can assist in decolonizing international human rights clinical law teaching and practice but is insufficient in …