BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Harvard Law School//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:Harvard Law School - Events X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://hls.harvard.edu/calendar/ X-WR-CALDESC:Harvard Law School - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20221018T1135Z-1666107352.322-EO-445797-1@10.73.2.169 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20240328T201730Z CREATED:20220826T170151Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220928T135745Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220928T123000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220928T131500 SUMMARY: In the Belly of the Beast: Criminal Justice Impact Litigation in t he Deep South DESCRIPTION: Join OPIA for a community discussion with Wasserstein Fellow M ercedes Montagnes HLS ‘09\, Founder and Executive Director of the Promise o f Justice Initiative\, in which she will discuss the benefits and risks of using impact litigation as a tool to create positive change for people in t he criminal legal system. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Join OPIA for a community discussion with Wasserstein Fellow Mercedes Montagnes HLS ‘09\, Fo under and Executive Director of the Promise of Justice Initiative\, in whic h she will discuss the benefits and risks of using impact litigation as a t ool to create positive change for people in the criminal legal system. We w ill explore litigation as one tool and how community organizing\, direct se rvices\, and other strategies can be used in parallel with litigation to en d the death penalty\, challenge conditions of confinement\, expose prosecut orial and judicial misconduct\, and fight racism. Rooted in New Orleans\, M ercedes will also discuss the implications of being placed based versus nat ional in your scope of practice.
Lunch provided. RSVP below.
Me rcedes Montagnes is the Executive Director of The Promise of Justice Initia tive. Her first impact litigation case challenged the alarming heat conditi ons on Death Row at the Louisiana State Penitentiary\, otherwise known as A ngola. Today\, her litigation team is tackling a myriad of issues ranging f rom medical care to over detention. In addition to leading the litigation t eam\, Mercedes oversees the projects at PJI. In the last year\, this has in cluded designing and building a project looking at forced labor in Louisian a called the End Plantation Prisons Project\, building Louisiana Survivors for Reform- a groups of justice minded survivors\, and coordinating litigat ion and policy responses to Hurricane Ida for those in prisons and jails th roughout the state. She is a graduate of Harvard Law School and clerked for Judge Carl Barbier in the Eastern District of Louisiana and Chief Judge Ro ger Gregory on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.
If you or an even t participant requires disability-related accommodations\, please contact H LS Accessibility Services at accessibility@law.harvard.edu two weeks in advance of the event.
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