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Growing The Resistance: A Call To Action For Transactional Lawyers In The Era Of Trump, Gowri Krishna
Growing The Resistance: A Call To Action For Transactional Lawyers In The Era Of Trump, Gowri Krishna
Tennessee Journal of Race, Gender, & Social Justice
New Yorkers woke to a dreary, drizzly day on November 9, 2016. The weather matched the mood of many of the city’s inhabitants. Tears streamed down my face as I sat in the subway waiting for my stop. One by one, as my colleagues in the Community Development Project at the Urban Justice Center came into the office that morning, we shared expressions of shock, anger, fear, and sadness. We feared for what Trump’s election meant for our clients, for ourselves and our families, for our country, and for our world. In the days and weeks that followed, we coalesced …
The Economic Justice Imperative For Lawyers In “Trump Country”, Priya Baskaran
The Economic Justice Imperative For Lawyers In “Trump Country”, Priya Baskaran
Tennessee Journal of Race, Gender, & Social Justice
This article serves as a call to action for rural law schools to meaningfully incorporate economic justice into transactional legal education, and in doing so, train much needed rural advocates, legal experts, and local leaders. Rural areas are continuously portrayed as “Trump Country” in today’s mainstream media coverage, which largely focuses on socio-cultural differences between urban and rural areas. Many rural scholars and activists are troubled by the “Trump Country” label as it masks the structural poverty issues that lead to housing insecurity, water insecurity, poor public health indicators, unemployment, underemployment, troubled public education systems, and environmental degradation impacting both …