Announcing: Volume 45, Issue 1
It’s official! NYU’s Review of Law and Social Change has published the first issue of its FORTY-FIFTH volume! Congrats to the new Board, and to the four new authors who are featured!
2021 Colloquium: Defund to Abolish
Defund to Abolish brought together community organizers, legal practitioners, and activist scholars to unpack and explore strategies to defund and abolish the police, and engage with the imaginative possibilities of a police-free world. Para leer más sobre el Coloquio
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