Join The PI/PS Office for the fifth installment in The Practice of Justice series on Workers' Rights, Economic Justice, and the Changing Workplace. Explore how lawyers help workers build power and challenge exploitation in the workplace. The program will highlight strategies ranging from direct representation and government enforcement to class actions, organizing partnerships, and campaigns for broader economic justice.
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: Public Interest Lawyering in Action
- 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 cosponsored by the Columbia Law & Political Economy Society (LPE), Empowering Women of Color (EWOC), Human Rights Association, Muslim Law Students Association (MLSA), Queer and Trans People of Color (QTPOC), Tenants’ Rights Project, and Workers’ Rights Student Collective (WRSC).