Major panels (75 min) and workshops (60 min) serve as the backbone of every #Law4thePeople Convention, and each year address timely topics of movement law and organizing. See below for the 2019 major panels and workshops that will take place Friday (10/18) through Sunday (10/20) of the convention.
Titles with links to “(download CLE materials)” have CLE credit pending. Also, be sure to check out our three full and half-day CLE programs from the National Police Accountability Project of the NLG and Law 4 Black Lives; the National Immigration Project of the NLG; and the NLG International and Labor & Employment Committees!
NOTE: Schedule is subject to change.
FRIDAY, October 18
Workshops I (11:15 am – 12:15 pm)
- Reparations and Self-Determination
- Expanding Democracy: Protecting the Right to Vote (download CLE materials)
- How to Be a Radical Lawyer in Support of Abortion Access
- U.S. Exceptionalism and Responding to US Intervention Around the World
Major Panels I (4:30 pm- 5:45 pm)
- Organizing the South: Confronting Employers and the State to Build Worker Power
- Criminalizing Protest: Attacks on Black, Native, and Palestinian Resistance
- Centering Affected Communities in the Field of Impact Litigation
SATURDAY, October 19
Workshops II (9:00 am – 10:00 am)
- Movement Security: How To Support Safety at Actions, Marches, and Rallies
- Defending Activists Against SLAPP Suits: What Litigators Need to Know (download CLE materials)
- Legal Empowerment=Abolition: A Strategy to End Incarceration in the US
- #SexWorkIsWork: Decriminalization After SESTA-FOSTA (download CLE materials)
Major Panels II (1:45 pm – 3:00 pm)
- National Prison Strikes: Legal Strategies for Defending Prisoner Activists (download CLE materials)
- Movement Lawyering in the South (download CLE materials)
- Challenging Lawfare: Challenging White Supremacy, Zionism and Racism
SUNDAY, October 20
Workshops III (9:30 am – 10:30 am)
- Community Based Environmental Justice: CAFOs, Coal Ash, and Water
- Critical Race Theory (download CLE materials)
- Legal Consequences of the US Occupation of Hawaii (download CLE materials)
- Labor Strategies to Combat Authoritarian Regimes (download CLE materials)
Workshops IV (1:15 pm – 2:15 pm)
- Struggle for Asylum, Legal Support, and Survival at the Mexico/US Border
- Marijuana Reparations and the War on Drugs
- Hot Topic: The Puerto Rican Summer: 12 Days That Shook Our World
- Hot Topic: Changing the South & Combating Retaliatory Anti-immigrant Legislation