Category Archives: Announcements
Statement in Response to Trump Administration’s Unprecedented Demand that Harvard Dismantle Student Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild
Wednesday, April 16, 2025 Email: hlsguild@mail.law.harvard.edu Instagram: @harvardnlg Last Friday, the Trump Administration privately sent a letter to Harvard University with a series of racist, reactionary, and unconstitutional demands attacking civil liberties, academic freedom, human rights, and racial justice. The letter explicitly calls on Harvard to defund and dissolve the Harvard Law School chapter of […]
Texas Tech Law’s Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild Calls for Action and Solidarity Against ICE’s Targeting of Immigrant Students
The Texas Tech Law Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) strongly condemns the recent actions of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under the current Trump administration, which have resulted in the unjust arrest, detentions and targeting of international graduate students
The San Antonio Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) condemns Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s use of the courts to attack the City of San Antonio for a democratically approved San Antonio Reproductive Justice Fund
A majority of Texas voters support at least some access to abortion between the first 6 weeks to at any time during the pregnancy. The passage of San Antonio Reproductive Justice Fund reflects the desires of most Texans and was won through persistent advocacy by community members and their organizations. Using the courts to impede this democratically […]
National Lawyers Guild Condemns the Targeted Detention of Palestinian Student Organizer Mahmoud Khalil and Reiterates its Call for “Sanctuary Universities” to Protect their Students and Workers from Escalating State Repression
The National Lawyers Guild and its International Committee condemn the escalation of federal repression. The arrest and detention of Mahmoud Khalil demonstrates a dangerous increase in both the criminalization of protest in the United States and the targeting of immigrants. It is also a frightening evolution in the ongoing assault against the movement of students […]
Week of Abolition 2025
For the 2025 Week of Abolition (March 3-7), NLG law school chapters organized 100+ events and actions related to the abolition of prisons and police. This year, NLG students focused on building alternatives in our everyday lives, relationships, and institutions, guided by these words by abolitionist organizer and thinker Ruth Wilson Gilmore: “Abolition is not absence, […]
NLG Students Organize Against ICE Recruitment at Law Schools
In response to the ongoing cruel and unconstitutional raids on immigrants and their communities by the Trump administration, NLG law student chapters are organizing to stop recruitment efforts at their law schools by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and Customs and Border Patrol (CBP). In late January, New York […]
The National Lawyers Guild Is In Solidarity with Katherine Franke, and Condemns Columbia University
The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) condemns Columbia University’s forced retirement of former NLG Executive Director, Katherine Franke. This response is only one of the many attacks Columbia University has lobbied against anyone daring to speak out against Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. Professor Franke is a true embodiment of the NLG’s spirit and fight of putting […]
