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Join Black Girls Equity Alliance and Gwen’s Girls this Wednesday for the She Matters Webinar, Summary Citations: What You Need to Know About the Harm Caused to Allegheny Youth. Date: Wednesday, November 29th Time: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST Summary Citations are similar to traffic tickets, and often issued to youth for low-level infractions like disorderly conduct. According to the ACLU, these citations have been disproportionately issued to Black students in Pittsburgh Public Schools by school police and can have negative long-term consequences for students. The webinar will focus on: • The long-term consequences of summary citations • Allegheny Juvenile Defender's Office efforts in representing students who have received a citation • Efforts by the Advocacy for Racial and Civil Justice (ARC) Clinic at Penn Law School surrounding summary citations Register Here: https://lnkd.in/ek2WhJTw Gwen's Girls, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, Education Law Center-PA, ACLU of Pennsylvania

Meet Professor Hannah Garry 👋 our new Executive Director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights for Human Rights at UCLA Law. "We're training the next generation of human rights advocates here at UCLA Law," she says. "Through in-classroom learning and experiential education, we're helping students make a real-world impact now, while they're students." The Promise Institute is a leader at UCLA, in California, nationally and internationally for bringing together communities, scholars, advocates and practitioners to address some of the most serious injustices, and working to rectify these injustices through a human rights lens. Promise's current work focuses on several key areas including, accountability, the environment, race & indigeneity, tech and migration. Watch now as Prof. Garry shares '5 things you should know about Promise' - enjoy! 🍿 Ready to learn more? Click the link below ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/ggeQvnfX #HumanRights #Education #Law

We don't just condemn antisemitism and hatred. We take it personally. I am proud to say that Sullivan & Worcester LLP has joined more than 200 law firms in an open letter to law school deans, urging them to foster law students’ free exchange of ideas while rejecting unreservedly any form of antisemitism or any other form of violence, hatred or bigotry on college campuses, our workplaces and communities. On a personal level, my family and I have been shaken by the incidents on college campuses that prompted the letter, including reports of rallies calling for the death of Jews and the elimination of the State of Israel. It is heartening to know that my firm shares our alarm and has not equivocated in saying so. We are one of relatively few US law firms with an office in Israel and stand by our wonderful colleagues there. We endeavor to maintain an environment that prizes loyalty, respect and support for one another, both personally and professionally. Sullivan & Worcester issued a press release today that I think is consistent with these values. In it we affirm "our unwavering support for Israel and for our Israeli colleagues, clients, and their families since the barbaric attacks of October 7." We applaud the fundraising that our colleagues and clients in Tel Aviv have spearheaded on behalf of the families in Otef Aza. We also recognize the impact on our colleagues and clients here in Boston, New York and DC, many of whom have expressed concern for their own families’ safety and wellbeing. "While our values accommodate a wide diversity of viewpoints, we take personally and join in condemning discrimination, harassment, and threats of violence on college campuses and in our communities." Learn more in the press release: https://lnkd.in/er5RMB3D #amyisraelchai

Chicago Partner Laura Knittle will present "Inclusive Practices: All Means All" for the ILLINOIS ALLIANCE OF ADMINISTRATORS OF SPECIAL EDUCATION 2023 Fall Conference in Tinley Park, Illinois on October 19, 2023. This presentation will focus on inclusive practices for students with disabilities and provide information to school administrators on how to best serve students with disabilities. Learn more and register below. #educationlaw #specialeducation #lawfirm #lawyer #illinoislaw #chicagolawyer #legal #law #grsm #gordonrees #your50statepartner

I graduated from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law 5 yrs ago today, on May 19, 2019. 🎓 It has been an incredible journey since then, with many successes, and notable setbacks too. 🎓Some of the major life events that inspired me to launch The Legal Accountability Project to correct injustices I personally experienced as a *law student* and law clerk happened at WashU. Even as LAP has made progress toward changing the #clerkship culture at many schools, we have yet to effectuate change at my alma mater. 🎓I’ve pointed out before that an institution can take one of two paths when they’re criticized for doing wrong: make change, or bury their heads in the sand. My alma mater chose the latter. 🎓I’m not the only former law clerk who’s expressed a desire for an apology for past harms. I may be the first to so publicly associate my #lawschool, rather than solely the #judiciary, with that harm. 🎓My work necessarily critiques structures and systems in the #legalprofession - #lawschools and the #judiciary - that have historically been slow to change. Rather than just complaining, LAP created concrete solutions - including our Centralized Clerkships Database - to correct the lack of #transparency, #equity, and #accountability in judicial #clerkships and the judiciary. 🎓And LAP’s programming - which has visited DOZENS of other schools - educates students about problems they might encounter during a #clerkship, so they can be informed, discerning, and #empowered consumers of opportunities. And so they know what options are available, if they find themselves in a situation like mine. More students now truly understand the work environments they’re entering. 🎓Law schools appear to suffer from misaligned incentives: they may be driven by an interest in protecting their #judiciary relationships, rather than by their duty of care to students. LAP tries to rebalance these incentives, and make it easier for schools to do right by students/alumni. 🎓I discuss WashU as one example of what’s wrong with law school #clerkship advising. The problems I highlight provide a clear contrast: LAP’s work corrects these injustices for students/clerks. 🎓And I speak about my own experience because I believe the most effective advocates are advocating based on their personal experience. I turned my very negative experience into wide-scale change. ⚖️Considering that 30+ WashU Law students have already registered for LAP’s Clerkships Database, maybe someday the school will reconsider. LAP is happy to engage when that happens. But I'm not waiting on any school to help me make the change I want to see in the world. I, with LAP as the vector for that change, have already accomplished this. #clerkships #courts #accountability #transparency #lawschools

Does the #SupremeCourt Have No Friend at Harvard Law School? The attached #Harvard Law Today article, entitled “Evaluating the Supreme Court: #HarvardLaw Faculty Weigh In”, is an interesting read for 2 (very different) reasons. First, the commentary from 7 distinguished members of the faculty offers a series of insightful points worth considering in thinking about #SCOTUS’ last term. Second, if you pull back even a step, you can’t help but be struck by how uniformly critical all 7 are of the Court. It appears the Court has no friends at Harvard. With few exceptions, the 7 offer praise to the Court (often begrudgingly) only where the outcome of the case is viewed as something of a rejection of the Court’s admittedly quite #conservative bent. You might cheer that. Alternatively, you might wonder whether that fact raises at least a question about whether the faculty is adequately positioned, collectively, to help students understand and advocate effectively from different #pointsofview. When I went to what Harvard refers to, not very humbly, as “The Law School”, the faculty was in the midst of a sustained #ideological fight, between what might be termed “traditional #liberals”, on the one hand, and #progressives and #leftists, on the other. The resulting infighting was sometimes unpleasant, for the faculty and students, and it had (unfortunately) an impact on the sense of community at the school—even in the absence of what could be termed a true “#conservative” wing in the faculty (with some at least arguable exceptions). But the upside of that division was, I think, real. There was an important #diversity of views that helped to challenge students, no matter what their #political outlook. Reading the essential uniformity reflected here, I worry about whether that is possible, or at least reasonably consistently the case, now. Some will, no doubt, respond “good”, but uniformity worries me. To be fair, exceptional teachers, who pride themselves on the quality of their #instruction, as well as the quality of their #scholarship, can and do help students learn to see and appreciate legal issues from every perspective, from every vantage point—no matter how passionately those #professors believe a particular perspective is correct. During my time there, #Professor Katheleen Sullivan, later Dean at #Stanford, was the quintessential example of precisely that. She ensured that each question was subjected to close, exacting scrutiny from both the “left” and the “right”. So, the uniformity of the criticism of the Supremes reflected in the article may not present a #pedagogical weakness, at all. But I do worry.

Filed today by the Brandeis Center and Jewish Americans for Fairness in Education against the University of California Berkeley. (link below) As per the complaint: This suit targets the longstanding, unchecked spread of anti-Semitism at the University of California Berkeley (“UC Berkeley”), which, following the October 7 Hamas attacks, has erupted in on-campus displays of hatred, harassment, and physical violence against Jews. 𝐂𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐭 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐞𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐢-𝐒𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭, 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐯𝐢𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐔𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐲, 𝐟𝐞𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐥 𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐥𝐚𝐰𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐔.𝐒. 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧. Anti-Semitism has been allowed to take root and grow at the UC Berkeley School of Law (“Berkeley Law”), which is located on the UC Berkeley campus. For over a year, student organizations at Berkeley Law have been enacting and enforcing policies that confront Jews with an unthinkable and unlawful ultimatum: Disavow an integral component of your Jewish identity— Zionism—or be denied the same rights and opportunities enjoyed by other members of the campus community. Although UC administrators have publicly acknowledged the fundamentally anti- Semitic nature of such policies, they have taken no action to address them. Even now, in the wake of October 7, UC Berkeley and Berkeley Law have failed to confront, much less combat, the anti- Semitic environment their inaction has fostered. ... 𝐧𝐨 𝐟𝐞𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝟐𝟑 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐲 𝐋𝐚𝐰 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐞𝐱𝐜𝐥𝐮𝐝𝐞 𝐉𝐞𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐡 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬, 𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐲, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐚𝐫𝐬. https://lnkd.in/esT6GZwN

Elite law firms send a message With universities across the United States grappling with a rise in antisemitism since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, elite law firms are putting schools on notice. In a letter to some of the nation’s top law schools obtained by DealBook, about two dozen major Wall Street firms warned that what happens on campus could have corporate consequences. “We look to you to ensure your students who hope to join our firms after graduation are prepared to be an active part of workplace communities that have zero tolerance policies for any form of discrimination or harassment, much less the kind that has been taking place on some law school campuses,” the firms wrote. Among the firms that signed the letter are: Cravath, Swaine & Moore Debevoise & Plimpton Kirkland & Ellis Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Skadden Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Another signatory, Davis Polk & Wardwell, last month rescinded job offers over letters blaming Israel for the Oct. 7 Hamas attack. The letter follows a series of recent antisemitic episodes at universities. Gov. Kathy Hochul of New York sought this week to reassure Jewish students at Cornell after online posts threatening violence against them. Students at other schools have said they feel increasingly unsafe amid rallies and other acts that, in some instances, have become violent. And school leaders have been criticized for equivocating in their responses to both the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks on Israel and to antisemitism more broadly. (The University of Pennsylvania, which has faced a donor revolt, yesterday announced measures that include a task force on antisemitism.) By The New York Times #rachelbaron #rnews #rmedia

GC's and C-suite executives need to hold their law firms accountable for their demand that law schools enforce a zero tolerance policy for anti-semitism, which you can find below. Hundreds of law firms signed this letter way back in November 2023. The letter and signatories can be found at the link below. Demand to know whether those firms are planning to recruit at Harvard, Penn, Georgetown, Yale and other "top" schools that continue to allow their campuses to provide fertile ground for Jew hate. And to those within law firms themselves, make your voices heard. Silence is complicity. https://lnkd.in/ee4mtP8u

Stanford Law School's Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion announces departure amidst free speech controversy. Learn more about this significant development in the legal community. https://lnkd.in/gQfQn_R6 #StanfordLaw #LawSchoolNews #LegalEducation