This document discusses social justice lawyering and provides examples of social justice lawyers throughout history who have fought for civil rights, human rights, and justice for marginalized groups. It highlights the immense legal response to Hurricane Katrina and examples of modern-day social justice lawyers working on issues like disability rights, immigration, criminal justice reform, and more. It encourages readers to pursue social justice law and quotes emphasizing the importance of struggle and solidarity in creating positive change.

1. Social Justice Lawyering

3. “ The first thing I lost in law school was the reason that I came…”

4. “ I am not sure justice is being done, but I am following the law.”

5. Law Justice But you can help narrow the gap !

6. Though we say differently Justice is actually a counter-cultural value in the legal profession

7. Challenge : Hold on to the justice dreams that brought you to law school

8. Thousands of others have been able to do social justice law and make a living Katrina sample of examples

14. Scope of Damage Mississippi Louisiana Alabama Florida

15. 300,000 homes uninhabitable

16. Katrina Damaged 90,000 Square Miles Area from Boston to Baltimore Inland hundreds of miles

17. One Million Displaced

24. Response of Legal Community Incredible!

29. Advancement Project

33. St. Bernard Parish: September 2005 Rent Only to Blood Relatives Ordinance

35. Waves of Evictions Hit New Orleans

36. Federal challenge to LA eviction laws – tacking 3 day notice

37. LA Secretary of State: “299,000 voters in N.O. not back”

38. NAACP LDF & Civil Rights Advocates file Voting Rights Action

39. FEMA - November 15, 2005 Quit paying for housing for nearly 60,000 homeless Katrina families residing in government paid hotel and motel rooms.

41. 8300 Prisoners Left in Cells

42. ACLU Report Abandoned & Abused

44. Criminal Courthouse Closed No Jury Trials No Witnesses No Victims Accused Still Lost in System

45. Criminal Evidence Room: Chest-deep Water

48. Pre-Katrina, 5000 families lived in public housing

51. Class Action USDC Filed on behalf of 4500 families displaced from public housing

52. Federal suits filed to open public schools & stop wait list

53. USDC Class Action v FEMA Termination and Recoupment

54. Voter Purge Challenged in USDC

55. There are thousands of social justice lawyers

56. High profile Social Justice Lawyers

57. Shirin Ebadi Nobel Peace Prize Iran

58. Stephen Bright Southern Center Human Rights Admitted 1974 - Kentucky

59. Marian Wright Edelman Children’s Defense Fund Admitted 1960s

60. Kim Gandy President of NOW Loyola New Orleans 1978

61. Refuse the Standard Choices: “$-or- Good Work” Guantanamo Detainee Lawyers – hundreds – eg Neal Katyal & Lt. Commander Charles Swift

62. Lawyers Protest in Kashmir Against Human Rights Violations Committed in Local Jail – July 2004

63. Digna Ochoa Human Rights Defender Mexico City + 19 October 2001

64. Lawyers Protest Threat to Arrest Human Rights Lawyer A.S. Chahal in Chandigarh India

65. Marjorie Cohn President National Lawyers Guild

66. Brian Concannon & Mario Joseph Haiti Human Rights Advocates

67. You Make the Path by Walking – No Superhighway to Social Justice Judith Browne & Penda Hair – Advancement Project – Civil Rights

68. Pakistani Lawyers Protesting for Freedom of Judiciary – March 2007

69. Do not let anyone tell you it is impossible Chen Guangcheng Human Rights Defender Shandong China

70. Louise Arbour Prosecutor Yugoslavia War Crimes

71. Graham Russell – Human Rights Global Justice

72. Mary Robinson UN High Commission on Human Rights

73. Brian Stevenson Death Row Lawyer

74. Hassan Bubacar Jallow of Gambia Prosecutor Rwanda War Crimes

75. Carla del Ponte Chief Prosecutor War Crimes in Yugoslavia

76. Daniel Bekele Action Aid Ethiopia

77. Carol Bellamy UNICEF Director

78. Learn and Reclaim The History of Social Justice Lawyers A Sample Follows

79. James Stephen Abolitionist Advocate - 1807

80. John Quincy Adams Amistad Defender - 1840

81. Albion Tourgee – Admitted 1865 Ohio and North Carolina - Plessy v Ferguson (1896)

82. Arabella Babb Mansfield Admitted 1869 Iowa Suffrage Advocacy

83. Charlotte E. Ray First African American Woman Lawyer Admitted DC 1872 Suffrage Activist

84. Louis Brandeis Economic Social Political Justice – Admitted 1877

85. Instead of holding a position of independence between the wealthy and the people …able lawyers have… neglected to use their powers for the protection of the people Louis Brandies - 1905 Option for the Poor and Powerless

86. Clara Shortridge Foltz Women’s rights Public defender Admitted 1878

87. Clarence Darrow Union Defender Admitted Ohio 1878

88. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi Barrister-at-Law – admitted 1891

90. Carol Weiss King Human Rights Lawyer Admitted 1920 1895-1952

91. Charles Houston, NAACP Counsel, Howard Law Prof. “A lawyer is either a social engineer or a parasite on society.”

92. Hope has two beautiful daughters: Courage and Anger. Augustine of Hippo

93. Max Hirschberg, Anti-Nazi Lawyer in Germany in 1920s and 1930s

94. Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights & U.S. Justice Admitted 1933

95. Nelson Mandela - Admitted 1944

97. Constance Baker Motley and Thelton Henderson Civil Rights Lawyers & Federal Judges

98. Social Justice Lawyers on the Front Lines Today

99. Astrid Puentes Riano Inter-American Association for Envronmental Defense Colombia Mexico Peru

100. Greg Schell Legal Services Farmworker Advocate - Florida

101. Tulika Srivastava – Women’s Rights India

102. Brian Kogoro Human Rights Zimbabwe

103. Laura Tuggle - Housing Advocate New Orleans

104. Vanita Banks National Bar Association

105. Sarah Cleveland Human Rights Advocate for Sugar Cane Cutters

106. Janice Fukai (L.A.) & Bob Wolfrum (St. Louis) Public Defenders

107. Domestic Violence Victim Lawyers Sarah Buel & Rachel Amy Putterman

108. Salih Mahmoud Osman Sudan Organization Against Torture

109. Ella Bhatt Self-Employed Women’s Association - India

110. Michele Stephenson Human Rights Attorney and Filmmaker

111. Dionisio Diaz Garcia Lawyer of the Poor Labor Lawyer More Just Society Honduras + 4 December 2006

112. Disability Advocates – Matt Laffin & Claudia Gordon

113. Mental Health Law Advocates - Georgia

114. Child Advocates Susan Knowles & LaShanda Taylor

115. Jeanette Keller Iowa Legal Services Advocate for Disabled Veterans

116. Law Profs (SALT) Protesting for Affirmative Action

117. If there is no struggle, there is no progress.

118. Monica E. Magoke-Mhoja Women’s Legal Aid Center Tanzania

123. Seek Out Hope Joy Love

124. Wherever you find tragedy and injustice You will also find resistance and inspiration

125. If you have come to help me you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us struggle together. Solidarity Lila Watson – Aboriginal Activist Collective

126. Law Justice But it can!

127. http://www.loyno.edu/~quigley/