The NLG Executive Council (EC) invites you to an open 2024 National Convention Q&A session on March 26, 2024 from 4-5 PM ET / 3-5 PM CT / 1-2 PM PT.

Please feel free to bring your questions, comments, or concerns. We look forward to sharing with you all what we have been working on.

The NLG Animal Liberation Committee is excited to announce a new webinar!

This panel, featuring all contributors to Building Multispecies Resistance Against Exploitation: Stories from the Frontlines of Labor and Animal Rights (Peter Lang, 2024), delves into the intricate web of exploitation prevalent across various sectors of labor, ranging from meatpacking and slaughterhouses to the seemingly altruistic realms of the non-profit industrial complex. By examining these intersections, the panel aims to shed light on the multifaceted dimensions of exploitation affecting nonhuman animals, humans, and the Earth itself.

Date and Time: Thursday, April 11, 2024, 8 PM - 9 PM ET / 6 PM - 7 PM MT via Zoom

The application for the NLG's Leonard Weinglass Memorial Fellowship is now available!

Thanks to a generous bequest from the Weinglass estate, the NLG Foundation established a fellowship for recent law graduates. Each year, one fellow receives a stipend to work for the NLG on a specific civil rights or civil liberties project.

More information on eligibility, application instructions, and previous fellowship projects can be found on the NLG website at this link: https://www.nlg.org/2023-weinglass/.

If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to email NLG Director of Education and Research Traci Yoder at traci@nlg.org.

Completed applications are due by end of day April 22, 2024.

The NLG's Week of Abolition was an amazing success, with over 30 law school NLG chapters across the country hosting 100+ events! Events ranged from political prisoners, to how to be a Legal Observer, and how to embody and materially imagine a world free of prisons. The NLG National Office also hosted a webinar about the ethics of assisting in collective action with incarcerated people.

Guild Notes is our tri-annual newsletter, which is sent in print to all NLG jailhouse lawyer members. Check out highlights from NLG chapters, committees, and students, and read articles by NLG jailhouse lawyers!

You can find the full PDF of the issue here.

Submit to the next issue of Guild Notes by May 31, 2024!

The NLG is working to expand and connect our Scholar Network! Many Guild members are law professors, legal scholars, clinical faculty, writers, practitioners, and researchers who teach, publish, and speak regularly. NLG Scholars brings together our academic members and helps students, activists, and the media find NLG thinkers and speakers who offer a leftist political analysis of various legal issues.

If you would like to be added to the national NLG Scholar email list, please email NLG Director of Research and Education Traci Yoder at traci@nlg.org. We plan to hold a meeting for NLG Scholars in the near future, so please join the list to be included.

Since 1973, the NLG has been funding the summer work of legal workers and law students seeking to build their progressive legal skills. The Haywood Burns Memorial Fellowships for Social and Economic Justice were named in 1997 for renowned social justice lawyer and beloved former Guild President Haywood Burns, who is remembered by students as an exceptional teacher and dedicated mentor.

We can't continue provide this critical support without your contributions, so we encourage those who can to give back!