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Law School News: A Voice For Justice 3-1-2023, Janine L. Weisman, Roger Williams University School O Law
Law School News: A Voice For Justice 3-1-2023, Janine L. Weisman, Roger Williams University School O Law
Life of the Law School (1993- )
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Foreword To The Symposium: The Life And Work Of Robert M. Cover, Samuel J. Levine
Foreword To The Symposium: The Life And Work Of Robert M. Cover, Samuel J. Levine
Touro Law Review
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Menstruation And The Bar Exam: Model Policy And Operating Provisions, Marcy L. Karin, Margaret E. Johnson, Elizabeth B. Cooper
Menstruation And The Bar Exam: Model Policy And Operating Provisions, Marcy L. Karin, Margaret E. Johnson, Elizabeth B. Cooper
Menstrual Policies and the Bar
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An Innovative Approach To Movement Lawyering: An Immigrant Rights Case Study, Christine N. Cimini, Doug Smith
An Innovative Approach To Movement Lawyering: An Immigrant Rights Case Study, Christine N. Cimini, Doug Smith
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The role of lawyers in social change movements is more important than ever as communities mobilize around systemic racism, police killings, xenophobia, rising unemployment, and widening economic inequality. The immigrant rights movement is a critical part of these efforts to foment change. This Article leverages an in-depth case study – the rise and fall of the controversial immigration enforcement program known as Secure Communities - to explore how lawyers work as part of a community to challenge power and effectuate change. The dismantling of Secure Communities was widely credited to a relentless campaign to thwart the government’s then-expanding deportation strategy. …
The Government Lawyer As Activist: A Legal Ethics Analysis, Andrew Martin
The Government Lawyer As Activist: A Legal Ethics Analysis, Andrew Martin
Articles, Book Chapters, & Popular Press
Can a lawyer and government employee represent the government in her professional life while being an activist in her personal life? There is a striking and seemingly irreducible clash, at least at the intuitive level, between the two roles – between representing the government on the one hand while at the same time lobbying it or litigating against it on the other. Government lawyers are nonetheless some of the more successful activists in recent Canadian history. This article analyzes whether this duality is problematic from a legal ethics perspective. The analysis is grounded in three case studies: disability rights activist …
Letter To Ncbe, Legislation/Civil Rights Clinic
Letter To Ncbe, Legislation/Civil Rights Clinic
Menstrual Policies and the Bar
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Newsroom: Johnson Wins 2nd Term As Mbwa President 09/28/2016, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Newsroom: Johnson Wins 2nd Term As Mbwa President 09/28/2016, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Life of the Law School (1993- )
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Next Generation Civil Rights Lawyers: Race And Representation In The Age Of Identity Performance, Anthony V. Alfieri, Angela Onwuachi-Willig
Next Generation Civil Rights Lawyers: Race And Representation In The Age Of Identity Performance, Anthony V. Alfieri, Angela Onwuachi-Willig
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This Book Review addresses two important new books, Professor Kenneth Mack's Representing the Race: The Creation of the Civil Rights Lawyer and Professors Devon Carbado and Mitu Gulati's Acting White? Rethinking Race in Post-Racial America, and utilizes their insights to both explore the challenges that face the next generation of civil rights lawyers and offer suggestions on how this next generation of civil rights lawyers can overcome these difficulties. Overall, this Book Review highlights one similarity in the roles of black civil rights attorneys past and present: the need for lawyers in both generations to perform their identities in …
The Conservation Movement In A Corporate Age, Charles F. Wilkinson
The Conservation Movement In A Corporate Age, Charles F. Wilkinson
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