WAMI 2023 Events - National Lawyers Guild

Capital Law NLG Chapter

Capital Law NLG Chapter is hosting an “Abolition 101” panel, which can be livestreamed by NLG members and allies at the link below.

WAMI Livestream

WCL and GULC National Lawyers Guild Chapters

WAMI Group Picture
De-escalation and Narcan Training
Alternative to Cages Panel
Myth of the Progressive Prosecutor

Chicago-Kent Law NLG Chapter

Chicago-Kent Law is hosting a panel on the alternatives to police and prison, with presenters Emmanuel Andre and Isa Figueroa.

University of Oregon NLG Chapter

NLG students at University of Oregon hosted three events: Keynote Address: Andrea Ritchie; Decriminalization Panel; Restorative Justice Panel.

Open Recordings

University of Connecticut Law NLG Chapter

Loyola-New Orleans NLG will be hosting multiple events, including an Incarcerated Persons Art Exhibit, a presentations on Access to Information for Incarcerated People, Pre-Trial Bonds in CT, and Narcan Training and Criminalization of Addiction.

More information about their events can be found in their zine.

WAMI Zine

Denver Law NLG Chapter

Denver Law NLG is hosting an “Ending the School to Prison Pipeline” panel, an “Abolition 101” panel, a Narcan training, and a movie screening throughout the week.

You can keep up with them on Twitter @NLGatDenverLaw

Drexel Law NLG Chapter

Drexel Kline NLG is welcoming panelists from the Abolitionist Law Center, The Philadelphia Reentry Coalition, The Police Transparency Project, and others on Wednesday, March 8th to discuss policing on campus and in Philadelphia.

University of Illinois NLG Chapter

NLG students at University of Illinois will be hosting three events: No Cages: The Horrors of the Carceral System and Imagining Alternatives; Midwest Books to Prisoners; and a Chicago NLG LO Training.

Loyola-New Orleans Law NLG Chapter

Loyola-New Orleans NLG will be hosting multiple events, including a panel on Examining Forced Labor in the Bayou, Film Screening: Art and Krimes, Angola Prison Tour, WAMI Coffee and Q&A with Professor Bill Quigley

University of North Carolina NLG Chapter

UNC NLG is hosting a full week of events, including panels on:

Criminality: State Violence and Social Control
Carceral Labor and the Prison Industrial Complex
Health Justice Beyond Bars
Don’t Call the Cops: Building Alternatives to Policing

Brooklyn Law NLG Chapter

NLG students at Brooklyn Law will be hosting a Rikers Remembrance Event.

University of Iowa NLG Chapter

University of Iowa NLG is hosting a panel on alternatives to prisons, jails, and policing.

Pace Law NLG Chapter

Pace Law NLG will be hosting multiple events between March 6 and March 9. Follow them on Instagram for more information, @NLG_Pace

Brooklyn Law NLG Chapter

NLG students at NYU Law will be hosted a film screening for Time, a documentary by Garrett Bradley.

Pepperdine Law NLG Chapter

Pepperdine Law NLG will be hosting a full week of events, including panel

Case Western Reserve Law NLG Chapter

NLG students at Case Western Reserve Law hosted a full week of events, including a Record Sealing Clinic, panels on “Why Abolition? Why Decarceration?” “Scaling the Walls: Abolition, Community, and Conversation,” “Celly-Port: A Prison Cell on Wheels,” “Detention Centers and Mass Incarceration Immigration Practice,” a Movie Night with Justice for Our Children, and Social Discourse on Becoming Abolitionists.