So You Want To Be a Social Justice Lawyer?
October 8, 2021
12:30 pm - 1:45 pm
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WCC; 1019 Classroom
Join us for a discussion among three inspiring social justice lawyers on how to center social justice in your law school experiences and future career:
(1) Alec Karakatsanis, the founder and executive director of Civil Rights Corps and author of Usual Cruelty;
(2) Derecka Purnell, lawyer, writer, organizer, and author of Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom; and
(3) Bill Quigley, law professor and Director of the Stuart H. Smith Law Clinic and Center for Social Justice and the Gillis Long Poverty Law Center at Loyola University New Orleans, and author of “Letter to a Law Student Interested in Social Justice.”