ENGAGED SCHOLARSHIP –  #WHOAMI? HARM & REMEDY FOR THE YOUTH OF THE #METOO ERA

Professor Charisa Kiyô Smith, Co-Director of the Family Law Practice Clinic, published an article in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Law and Social Change, detailing how legal approaches to sexual and gender-based harms between minors are both ineffective and under-examined.

 

ENGAGED SCHOLARSHIP – CHARTING GLOBAL ECONOMIC INEQUALITY & EMANCIPATORY HUMAN RIGHTS RESPONSES

Professor Chaumtoli Huq, Co-Director of the Workers Rights Clinic, presents their case study,  “Charting Global Economic Inequalities and Emancipatory Human Rights Responses from the Ground Up: The Tea Workers’ Movement of Bangladesh.”

 

ENGAGED SCHOLARSHIP – TRANSFORMING WORKFARE WITH UNIVERSAL BASIC INCOME & FEDERAL JOB GUARANTEE

Professor Lynn Lu, Co-Director of the Equal Justice Works Clinic, presents “From Stigma to Dignity? Transforming Workfare with Universal Basic Income and a Federal Job Guarantee” examining proposals for a universal basic income (UBI) and a federal job guarantee (JG) to reduce poverty, income inequality, and the widening racial wealth gap.

 

ENGAGED SCHOLARSHIP –  THE CONTRACT STATE, PROGRAM FAILURE & CONGRESSIONAL INTENT

Professor Alan White presents their article “The Contract State, Program Failure, and Congressional Intent: The Case of the Public Service Loan Forgiveness Program,” published in the U.C. Irvine Law Review, exploring the Public Service Loan Forgiveness failure in detail and as an exemplar of the dysfunction of the contract state.

 

ENGAGED SCHOLARSHIP – STRUGGLING TO BREATHE: ASTHMA, POLLUTION & THE FIGHT FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE

Professor Rebecca Bratspies, Director of CUNY’s Center for Urban Environmental Reform, presents their work “Struggling to Breathe: Asthma, Pollution, and the Fight for Environmental Justice.” They discuss how asthma rates that Black communities in the U.S. experience are intimately connected with America’s racialized housing geography, and how reframing regulatory policy towards realizing the right to breathe clean air leads to better environmental policy choices and community health.

 

SUCCESS & WELLBEING IN LAW SCHOOL

Tips and tricks on navigating law school with grace from members of the National Consortium of Public Interest Law Schools, filmed during an annual Public Interest Law Symposium.

 

FINANCING & MANAGING DEBT AS A PUBLIC INTEREST ATTORNEY

Filmed during an annual Public Interest Law Symposium, National Consortium of Public Interest Law Schools speakers give advice on making your pursuit of becoming a public interest attorney more economically manageable.

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LAWYERING FOR ANTI-RACISM – HOW YOU CAN PROMOTE RACIAL JUSTICE

Hear from National Consortium of Public Interest Law Schools experts during an annual Public Interest Law Symposium.

 

FAMILY DEFENSE PRACTICUM SERIES – THE DEBATE OVER THE CALL TO ABOLISH FAMILY POLICING

A panel hosted by CUNY Law faculty on growing calls nationally and locally to abolish the family regulation system, also known as the family policing system. Panelists discuss specific calls on the road to abolition, bringing their own unique perspectives to the debate.

 

CRITICAL VOICES – ADDRESSING ANTI-ASIAN RACISM

Frank Wu and Sharon Hom address the rise of anti-Asian hate and violence in New York City and beyond.

 

CRITICAL VOICES – A CONVERSATION WITH ROBBIE KAPLAN

Roberta “Robbie” Kaplan discusses their experiences lawyering for the public interest and building her own firm. Robbie, perhaps best known for successfully arguing before the United States Supreme Court in United States v. Windsor, is a founding partner of Kaplan Hecker & Fink LLP.

 

CRITICAL VOICES – HUMAN RIGHTS IN TIMES OF CRISIS

Wolfgang Kaleck discusses how lawyers and activists can address human rights in times of crisis, including the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. He is the Founder and Secretary General of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, as well as a past Sorensen Center Visiting Scholar.

 

CRITICAL VOICES – RULE OF LAW & NUCLEAR WEAPONS

Ariana Smith, Seth Shelden, and Hadeel Abu Ktaish discuss what you should know about nuclear weapons and the rule of law.

 

A CONVERSATION WITH JUSTICE SONIA SOTOMAYOR & JUDGE ROSEMARY BARKETT

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sotomayor speaks at CUNY Law School’s Sorensen Center with Judge Rosemary Barkett.

 

A CONVERSATION WITH SUPREME COURT JUSTICE STEPHEN BREYER

Justice Stephen Breyer, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, discusses their book, “The Court and the World: American Law and the New Global Realities,” and how global interdependence is increasingly changing the work of the U.S. Supreme Court. Jeffrey Toobin, staff writer for The New Yorker magazine and CNN’s senior legal analyst, moderated the hour-long discussion.

 

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