Conference: “Facing the Future: Organizing and Lawyering for Justice”
January 31, 2025 – February 1, 2025
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Pound Hall; 101 Ballantine Classroom

Unsure what to do about authoritarianism? Come to the Facing the Future: Organizing and Lawyering for Justice conference taking place on January 31 – February 1, 2025 at Harvard Law School. The conference is co-sponsored co-organized by the Systemic Justice Project, the People’s Parity Project, the Law and Political Economy Project, and Civil Rights – Civil Liberties Law Review, with generous support from Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro.
The conference will focus on the future of justice-oriented lawyering in the face of mounting systemic challenges and rising authoritarianism. It aims to provide inspiration, direction, and hope to justice-oriented law students, lawyers, organizers, and scholars who are grappling with the role of the law and what it means to do public interest lawyering in a Trump 2.0 world.
Registration is required and space is limited.
Learn more about the conference, including how to register at facingthefuture.net.
Speakers include:
- Sabrineh Ardalan
- Alex Aronson
- Lauren Barnes
- Cornell William Brooks
- Congresswoman Cori Bush
- Molly Coleman
- Josie Duffy Rice
- Veena Dubal
- Carrie Flaxman
- Denise Ghartey
- Rhiannon Hamam
- Justin Hansford
- Walter Johnson
- Vail Kohnert-Yount
- Michael Liroff
- Areva Martin
- Sharon McGowan
- Saeed Mody
- Jodie Morse
- Michael Podhorzer
- Derecka Purnell
- Matt Segal
- David Seligman
- Silky Shah
- Peter Shamshiri
- Kim Lane Scheppele
- Jocelyn Simonson
- Astra Taylor
- Leah Watson
- Jay Willis