Learn how lawyers fight alongside immigrant communities in moments of crisis and in long-term movements for justice. Practitioners will discuss how lawyers provide urgent individual representation, challenge abusive systems, advance policy change, and use human rights frameworks to protect dignity, safety, and belonging in the U.S. and abroad.
- Rex Chen, Supervising Counsel for Immigrant Rights, LatinoJustice PRLDEF
- Katherine Kim ’14, Deputy Director, Immigration Practice, The Bronx Defenders
Additional panelists to be announced.
Lunch provided—please register in advance to help us prevent food waste. Vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free options will be available. Email us if you have additional dietary requirements; advance notice is appreciated.
The Practice of Justice: Public Interest Lawyering in Action series invites students to explore how lawyers turn values into action across some of today’s most urgent justice issues. Join the PI/PS Office for seven sessions that will bring together practitioners working in direct services, government, impact litigation, human rights, public international law, and civil rights practice. Panelists will share about their career paths, discuss the advocacy tools and strategies that they utilize in their work, and answer questions from students about how to get involved in public interest lawyering. These sessions are designed to provide an overview of different career paths within public interest lawyering and are open to students of all years.
The Practice of Justice Series:
- 09/16 Lawyering for Immigrant Justice
- 09/28 Government Accountability
- 10/05 Criminal Legal System Accountability, Policing, Detention, & Surveillance
- 10/12 Environmental Defense & Community Power
- 10/26 Workers’ Rights, Economic Justice, & the Changing Workplace
- 11/02 Corporate Accountability
- 11/09 Reproductive Freedom, Gender Justice, & Bodily Autonomy
Presented by the Office of Public Interest/Public Service Law and Careers (The PI/PS Office) and cosponsors.