Catherine Taylor Catherine Taylor earned her J.D from Chicago-Kent College of Law in 2017 and she is currently licensed to practice law in Illinois. Catherine thanks her friends and family for helping her in the writing process. She thanks Professor Steven Heyman for his guidance on her first few drafts. The views expressed in this […]
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Let Lucasville Uprising Prisoners Tell Their Own Stories!
Staughton & Alice Lynd Staughton and Alice Lynd are prominent activists and have been involved in numerous causes, including the civil rights movement, the anti-war movement, workers’ rights, and prisoners’ rights. They have worked with the ACLU of Ohio as volunteer attorneys for over 20 years. Introduction The eleven-day rebellion at the Southern Ohio Correctional […]
Editor’s Preface (Winter 2017)
Nathan Goetting Editor-in-Chief On April 11, 1993, inmates at the Southern Ohio Correctional Facility in Lucasville, Ohio, desperate and enraged by degrading conditions and the relentless petty indignities of prison life, rose up and seized control of the institution. Convicts from rival gangs crossed social, religious, and racial divides to unite in solidarity against their […]
Activism as a Legal Strategy: Promoting Environmental and Social Justice
Sascha Bollag Sascha Bollag is a staff attorney with Green Justice, a group of independent public interest lawyers coming together to provide accessible legal support on various social justice issues and train future competent, ethical effective attorneys. He previously served as staff attorney with the Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center (GNOFHAC), where he […]
The Danger of Being Wrong About Animal Rights: A Social Justice Attorney’s View
Jerold D. Friedman Jerold D. Friedman has been an activist since winning the “Super Environmentalist” award in grade school. He’s served on several boards of charities, been published in several books, and has been an NLG member since 2001. Because I am a civil rights activist, I am also an animal rights activist. Animals and […]
Rosario, Vilardi, and Their Progeny: Do They Hold Rogue Prosecutors Accountable and Bring Justice to the Wrongfully Convicted?
Daniel Kelly Daniel Kelly is an associate at LeClair Ryan, P.C., working out of the New York City office. He is licensed to practice law in New York and New Jersey and admitted to the bars of the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York. His practice areas include […]
Humans, Hierarchy, and Human Rights
Harold McDougall Harold McDougall is a professor of law at Howard University, Washington, DC. He says, “I wish to thank my research assistants, Ahmad Ahmadzai, Tiffany Dayemo, Alexandria Randall and Jonathan McDougall for their research and writing contributions to this article. (Santia McLaren, Brooke Oki, Monique Peterkin and Tabias Wilson worked on an earlier version.) […]
Democracy, Capitalism, and the Law
Joseph Taecker-Wyss Joseph Taecker-Wyss is a junior at New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. There, he is designing his own concentration focusing on issues within the political economy. In the summer of 2017, he interned at the National Lawyers Guild San Francisco Bay Area Chapter and wants to continue to be work on […]
Editor’s Preface (Fall 2017)
Nathan Goetting Editor-in-Chief In “Humans, Hierarchy, and Human Rights” Harold McDougall seeks to understand why so many social justice movements form, burn brightly, then either fade or are transformed away from their original mission. His exploration is interdisciplinary, using biological, anthropological, psychological, and sociological research to explain the causes which bring humans to band together […]
On Denial
By Natsu Taylor Saito Natsu Taylor Saito is a renowned human rights attorney, scholar, and professor. But, she tells us, “this definitely does not reflect the views of my employer. I was supposed to write a nice academic essay. But only a rant came out.” Climate change. Global warming. A big chunk of Antarctica just […]