>On Behalf Of Lisa & Ian Murray
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> Nathan, can you tell us more about the "rebellious lawyers" conference?
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> Ian
The Rebellious Lawyering conference is in its sixth year. It brings together public interest and leftwing law students each year to hear panels about innovative radical lawyering from across the country, from death penalty advocates to labor union lawyers to sweatshop activists to innovative campaigns to fight Unocol for its human rights abuses in Burma.
Check out http://www.reblaw.org/ for an outline of the events.
It is run out of Yale's Students for Social Justice group, our loose affiliate of the National Lawyers Guild. A lot of Guild law students and other lefty types come from around the East Coast, some from as far as Michigan and Minnesota. We've had about 300 law students for the last two years.
A lot of the goal is to just help students hear about alternatives to the relentless pressure for corporate lawyering at law schools. But it's also a real chance to bring together lawyers and other activists to talk about cutting edge approaches to using the law, especially in a day when straight up legal victories are hard to come by, so strategic uses of the courts in combination with smart organizing is increasingly at a premium.
-- Nathan Newman