Registration is OPEN for the 2012 RebLaw (“Rebellious Lawyering”) Conference!
RebLaw 2012 will be held at YaleLawSchoolon the weekend of February 17-18.
This year’s keynote speaker will be Gerald Lopez, UCLA law professor and author of “Rebellious Lawyering: One Chicano’s Vision of Progressive Law Practice.”
The keynote panel on “The Criminalization of Poverty” will feature Andrea Ritchie, co-author of “Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States” and coordinator of Streetwise and Safe; Andrew Friedman, co-founding director of Make the Road New York; and Lisa Daugaard, supervisor of the Seattle Defender Association’s Racial Disparity Project.
There will be nearly two dozen panels and workshops, including:
*Enforcing Labor Rights in a Transnational World
* Mobilizing for Sexual and Reproductive Justice
* Strategic Lawyering for Collective Entities: Models, Methods and Movement Building
* Fighting the Monopoly on Medicine
* Fallout from the Wal-Mart Decision
* Crime, But Not Punishment: Restorative Justice As An Alternative to Criminal Prosecution in Domestic & Int’l Contexts
* The Work JDs Do in Education Reform
* Race and Voting
* Prison Re-Entry
* Sovereignty, Identity, and Genocide: U.S. Law and Native Bodies
* Transnational LGBT Advocacy
* Confronting Big Food
* Juvenile Justice
* Rethinking the Public Interest Law Market
* Union organizing
* Environmental Justice * and more!
You can register and find more details on the conference online.