Adam Crepelle is an associate  professor  at Southern University Law Center and the managing fellow of SULC’s  Native American Law and Policy Institute. He is a commissioner on the American Bar Association’s Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence and a

J.D. Candidate, New York University School of Law, Class of 2014.

Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, Department of Criminal Justice, University of Wisconsin-Parkside. J.D., William and Mary; LL.M., Queen’s University (Canada).

Professor of Law, Russell Baker Scholar and Acting Director, Center for Studies of Criminal Justice, University of Chicago; Member, Illinois Bar. A.B., Harvard University, 1962; LL.B., Harvard Law School, 1965.

Alec Soghomonian is a graduate of NYU Law School and Occidental College. He would like to thank his parents and friends for their constant support and dedicate this article to the 120,000 Armenians who were ethnically cleansed from the Republic

Alexandra Kalev, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Tel Aviv University, Ph.D. in Sociology, Princeton University, 2006

Alexis Piazza is an Equal Justice Works Fellow at the ACLU Foundation of Southern California and a member of the ACLU of California’s Education Equity Team.

B.A., 1973, Indiana University; M.A., 1977, Indiana University; J.D., 1992, New York University School of Law.

Attorney in Washington, D.C

Alicia Ybarra is the Organizing and Campaign Liason of the Workfare and Low-Wage Workforce Project at the National Employment Law Project. She joined NELP in1997 after serving as an Assistant Director of the Political Action Department at Local 1199 of

Alvaro Botero is a rapporteur for the United Nations Committee on the Protection of the Rights of all Migrant Workers and Members of their Families, as well as a coordinator of the Organization of American States Unit on Refugees and

Alyssa Bell currently serves as judicial law clerk to the Honorable Richard Paez, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She graduated magna cum laude from the New York University School of Law in May 2010, where she was

B.A., 1986, University of Iowa; J.D., 1992, New York University School of Law.

Tenants’ Rights Special Litigation Staff Attorney at Southeast Louisiana Legal Services and Co-Chair of the Louisiana National Lawyers Guild. The Author is also the former Editor-in-Chief of the Review of Law and Social Change. A companion piece to this article

Senior Research Associate with the Center for Women in Government and Civil Society, the State University of New York, Albany; former Executive Director of the New York State Office for the Prevention of Domestic Violence.

N.Y.U. School of Law, J.D. 2009; Trial Attorney at the Federal Defenders of San Diego, Inc.

Amy Sugimori, N.Y.U. School of Law, 1999, was an Editor-in-Chief of the N.Y.U. Review of Law & Social Change in 1998-99. She is currently the Executive Director of La Fuente, A Tri-State Worker & Community Fund, Inc., a labor-community collaborative

Andrea J. Ritchie is a police misconduct attorney who has engaged in extensive research, litigation, and advocacy on profiling and policing of women, girls, and LGBT people of color. She served as plaintiffs’ counsel in Doe v. Jindal, a successful

Law Clerk, 2004-05, The Honorable Reena Raggi, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. J.D., Harvard Law School, 2004; A.B., Brown University, 1999.

John Paul Stevens Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University.

Associate Professor of Law, Columbia University. B.A., College of the City of New York, 1968; M.A., Columbia University, 1969; J.D., Harvard University, 1972.

Skadden Fellow, Urban Justice Center Community Development Project; Senior Editor, The Next American City; Law Clerk to the Honorable Janet C. Hall, United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, 2004-05. J.D., New York University School of Law, 2004;

Professor of Law, American University, Washington College of Law. A.B., 1971, Bryn Mawr College; J.D., 1978, Harvard Law School.

Assistant Clinical Professor of Epidemiology and Social Medicine at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City and Director of Research for the East Harlem Interfaith Welfare Committee.

Professor of Human Rights Law, Manchester Law School, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, U.K., B.A. (Hons.) 1983, Cambridge University, M.A. 1986, Cambridge University, Solicitor 1994, Law Society of England and Wales, LL.M., International and European Law, 2000, Liverpool University, Ph.D. 2013,

AnnJanette Rosga, Ph.D., received her doctorate in 1998 from the History of Consciousness program at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at Knox College in Illinois, and has published in the

Haywood Burns Chair in Civil Rights, CUNY School of Law, 2006-2007; Associate Professor, Boston College Law School.

Clinical Associate Professor of Law, Adjunct Professor of Law, and Managing Attorney, Federal Litigation Clinic, New York Law School; A.B., Brown University, 1981; J.D., Columbia University School of Law, 1984.

J.D. Candidate 1999, New York University School of Law.

J.D., The George Washington University Law School, 2020. Ashley now works as an Associate at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr in Washington, D.C.

Assistant Professor of Law, New York University School of Law.

Chief of Appeals and Counsel to the District Attorney for Kings County, New York.

Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Professor of Pediatrics, Brown University Program in Medicine. B.A., 1969; Boston University, M.A. 1970; Ph.D., 1973, Michigan State University. Research Grants: NIH -1 U10 HD27904-01 (Multicenter Network of Neonatal Intensive Care Units (Apr. 1991

Attorney, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.

Chief Defender, Defender Association of Philadelphia; President, National Legal Aid and Defender Association; former Deputy Attorney General and Chief, Office of CriminalLaw, Pennsylvania Department of Justice.

Hon. Betty Weinberg Ellerin is currently Senior Counsel to Alston & Bird and Chair of the New York State Judicial Committee on Women in the Courts. A judge for thirty years, she was the first woman Deputy Chief Administrative Judge

J.D. 2017, New York University School of Law. A special thank you to the editorial staff of the N.Y.U. Review of Law & Social Changeand particularly to Molly A Griffard, Charlotte G.L. Heyrman, Bobby Hunter, Joanna R. Loomis, and Nora

2006 graduate of New York University School of Law. He has represented individuals on death row and juveniles serving life without the possibility of parole in the Deep South. He is currently a criminal justice attorney in New York City.

J.D., New York University School of Law, 2004; B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2001.

Brian Fuller is a writer, artist and activist. He has written and published several poems, short stories, and personal essays. He brings a rawness and level of detail, honesty and humor to his writing that will surely move its readers.

New York University School of Law, J.D. 2000.

Clinical Teaching Fellow, Farmworker Legal Assistance Clinic, Cornell Law School (J.D., New York University School of Law; B.A., Stanford University).

Law Clerk to the Chief Judge James T. Giles, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. J.D., 2002, New York University School of Law.

Law Fellow, Equal Justice Initiative; J.D., New York University School of Law, 2015.

Professor of Law, Duquesne University School of Law. The author recently served as Secretary of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.

Inez Milholland Professor of Civil Liberties, New York University School of Law; National Legal Director, American Civil Liberties Union (1981-1986); founding Legal Director, Brennan Center for Justice at NYU.

Visiting Professor of Law, Washington University in St. Louis, Professor of Law, Saint Louis University, School of Law, LL.M. Columbia University, Law Clerk to the Honorable Mr. Justice lacobucci, Supreme Court of Canada, LL.B. University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

Carey Shenkman is a co-author of the book “A Century of Repression: The Espionage Act and Freedom of the Press” (University of Illinois Press, 2022). Shenkman is a human rights lawyer and NYU Law School Alum (’13) focusing on freedom

Professor of Law & Judge Frederick Lacey Scholar, Rutgers University School of Law (Newark).

President and CEO, Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice

Associate, Zalkind & Sheketoff, Boston, Massachusetts; B.A. Carnegie-Mellon University, 1972; Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh, 1977; J.D. Yale University, 1982.

Caroline Fredrickson is President of the American Constitution Society (ACS). During her tenure, Fredrickson has helped grow ACS, which now has lawyer chapters across the country, student chapters in nearly every law school in the United States, and thousands of

Professor of Law, UCLA; Visiting Professor of Law, Georgetown Law Center, 1994; A.B. Barnard College, 1971; J.D. University of Pennsylvania Law School, 1974.

Law Clerk to the Honorable Harry Pregerson, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. J.D., 2000, N.Y.U. School of Law.

President-Elect, New York County Lawyers’ Association.

J.D. Candidate, Northern Illinois University College of Law, December, 2010;M.S., Northern Illinois University; B.S., Benedictine University.

Professor, University of Louisville, Brandeis School of Law. B.A., Oberlin College; J.D., New York University School of Law. Managing Editor, N.Y.U Review of Law & Social Change (1986-87).

Commissioner, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission; Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center (on leave). Government ethics rules preclude me from doing much more than editing the transcript of the speech I delivered at this symposium. For that reason, this speech

Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Partner, Jessamy Fort & Ogletree; former Deputy Director, Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. B.A., 1974, MA., 1975, Stanford University; J.D., Harvard Law School, 1978.

A.B., 1972, Cornell University; J.D., 1978, Georgetown University Law Center. Assistant Director of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Legal Problems of the Elderly which is responsible for research, project development, and education in the areas of health law, long-term

Clinical Law Professor, Criminal Law Clinic, New York University School of Law. A.B., Emory University, 1965; J.D., New York Law School, 1968.

Chloe Walker is a staff attorney within the ABA’s Children’s Immigration Law Academy. Chloe earned her J.D. and Masters in Social Work from the University Houston. Chloe is a New Leaders Council Fellow and was honored in 2019 as one

Adjunct Professor of Clinical Law and Co-Director of the Family Defense Clinic, New York University School of Law.

J.D., University of Virginia School of Law.

Staff Attorney with the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia.

Law Clerk to the Honorable Harry Pregerson, United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. J.D., 2002, New York University School of Law.

Clifford L. Powers has been a jailhouse lawyer and legal advocate for over 15 years. He is currently serving a life sentence in the Illinois Department of Corrections.

Colie Levar Long was born and raised in Washington DC. At the age of 18, he was sentenced to life without parole. While serving 25 years, he became a youth mentor and an accomplished author. He writes about the carceral

Mr. Rosen is Executive Director at the National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO), a private, non-profit membership and research organization located at 426 17th Street, Suite 650, Oakland, California 94612.

Professor of Psychology, University of California, Santa Cruz. B.A., University of Pennsylvania; M.A., Ph.D., Stanford University; J.D., Stanford Law School.

Professor of Law, Michigan State University-Detroit College of Law.

Ph.D. candidate at Harvard Business School. J.D., New York University School of Law.

Associate Clinical Professor, Boston College Law School; Director, Boston College Immigration and Asylum Project.

Daniel Putnam is a graduate of NYU Law School and Yale University for his Ph.D. in Philosophy.

Assistant Professor of Law, University of Arkansas School of Law; J.D. 2005, University of Florida; B.A. 2002, Franklin and Marshall College. Prior to entering the academy, I practiced labor, employment, and education law at a large law firm in upstate

Associate Professor, Washington & Lee University School of Law.

David AJ. Richards is a professor at New York University School of Law. Professor Richards received his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1971 and his Ph.D. in Philosophy in 1970 from Oxford University.

B.A., B.S., University of California, Irvine; M.S., Stanford University; J.D., New York University School of Law; Professor of Law, University of Southern California Gould School of Law.

Associate with Webster & Sheffield, New York, New York. B.A., Brown University. 1973; J.D., New York University, 1986.

David Ellerman, Ph.D., is cofounder and staff economist of the ICA, and has worked in the field of workplace democracy for fifteen years. Dr. Ellerman has received graduate degrees in Philosophy, Economics, and Mathematics, and has taught mathematics, computer science,

Supervising Trial Attorney of the Bronx Defenders.

Manley 0. Hudson Professor of Law, Harvard Law School.

David Ray Fleenor was wrongfully convicted of murder in the first degree at the age of 25. He is now 53 years old, a college graduate, a certified paralegal, and an aspiring writer. David says that writing about his experience

J.D., New York University School of Law, 2017; B.A., Brown University, 2012.

David Schanzer is a professor of the practice at the Duke Sanford School of Public Policy University and director of the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security. He teaches courses, conducts research and engages in public dialogue on counterterrorism

J.D., 1995, New York University.

Dean Spade is an associate professor at the Seattle University School of Law and is currently a fellow in the Engaging Tradition Project at Columbia Law School.

B.A., 1988, University of Michigan; J.D., 1992, New York University School of Law. The author is currently working as a consultant to the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights, on refugee protection concerns in the former Yugoslavia. She received the NYU

B.A. University of Wisconsin, 1971; J.D., University of Wisconsin Law School, 1976. Groban Olson & Associates, a Detroit law firm, is general counsel for the Midwest Employee Ownership Center and specializes in representing clients in Michigan and other states on

Professor of Clinical Law and Co-Faculty Director, Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law, New York University School of Law, and President of the American Civil Liberties Union.

Staff Attorney, New York Legal Assistance Group, Tenants’ Rights Unit; J.D. 2015, New York University School of Law.

Derrick Gailes was born and raised in Houston, Texas. He is a man of God, father of three, February-born Pisces, and appreciative of his gift of writing.

Research Professor of Education at New York University and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution

Professor of Economics and Public Administration, Graduate School of Public Administration, New York University; member of the Board of Directors of the Municipal Assistance Corporation for the City of New York. B.A., University of Wisconsin, 1946; M.A., M.P.A., Harvard University,

Law Graduate, Housing Justice Unit, The Legal Aid Society.

Professor, College of Law, University of Toledo. A.B., University of California, Berkeley; M.S., Northwestern University; J.D., University of California, Los Angeles.

Law Clerk for the Honorable Albert W. Cofrin, Senior Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Vermont. J.D., 1990, Vermont Law School; B.S., 1979, University of Wisconsin – Stevens Point.

Ms. Noyes is a Revson Legislative Fellow with the New York State Senate’s Minority Task Force on Women’s Issues.

Dr. Jill Humphries is an Assistant Professor and Part Time Instructor for the University of Toledo’s Africana Studies Program, recognized for her accomplishments as a two-time Fulbright Scholar to South Africa and an Ambassador Distinguished Scholar for Ethiopia.

Partner, Boggan, Patton & Thorn, New York, New York. Chair-person Elect. Section on Individual Rights and Responsibilities, American Bar Association. Co-author. The Rights of Gay People (ACLU handbook).

National Staff Counsel with the American Civil Liberties Union, and author of Federal Court Awards of Attorney’s Fees (1981).  

Yale University ’17, NYU Law ’22. Elena grew up in rural Montana, on occupied Niitsítapi and Salish Kootenai land. Elena is an immigration attorney at Pangea Legal Services. During law school, she was a Root-Tilden-Kern Scholar, a student advocate in

Elie Mystal is Managing Editor of Above the Law and Host of Thinking Like a Lawyer. Elie Mystal joined Above the Law in 2008 by winning the Above the Law Idol Contest. Prior to joining Above the Law, Elie wrote

Elizabeth Ehrenfest Steinglass is a Research Fellow at New York University School of Law and a doctoral student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Elizabeth Gyori received her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2019, and works as a public interest attorney in New York City.

New York University School of Law, Class of 2013.

Hon. Ellen M. Yacknin is an Acting County Court Judge in Monroe County, New York. From 1989 until she assumed the Rochester City Court bench in 2003, Judge Yacknin was Senior Counsel for Health and Litigation at the Greater Upstate

M.D., Ph.D., Center for Biomedical Research, The Population Council.

Executive Director, Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law.

Lecturer in Law and S.J.D. candidate, University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice, School of Criminal Justice, University of Toledo. Ph.D., University at Albany.

Erika Wilson serves as the Thomas Willis Lambeth Distinguished Chair in Public Policy and associate professor of law at UNC-Chapel Hill. Her research and teaching interests include clinical legal education, education law and policy, specifically obtaining educational equality for disadvantaged

Ethan graduated from the University of California Irvine School of Law in 2023 and currently practices in Southern California. During law school, Ethan was a member of the Workers, Law, and Organizing Clinic, which focuses on low-wage worker organizing across

Senior Staff Attorney, Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund (“Lambda”); Adjunct Professor, Columbia University School of Law;, J.D., Harvard Law School, 1983; B-A., Yale, 1978. Lambda is the nation’s oldest and largest lesbian and gay legal rights organization and is

Ezra Rosser joined the Washington College of Law faculty in 2006. He has taught Property, Federal Indian Law, Poverty Law, Land Use, and Housing Law. Previously he served as a visiting professor at Ritsumeiken University, a 1665 Fellow at Harvard

Florence Ashley, B.C.L./LL.B., LL.M. (Bioeth.), McGill University Faculty of Law.

Professor of Law at the University of Miami School of Law. J.D., Yale Law School; Ph.D.,Harvard University.

Frank Costelon hails from El Paso, Texas, and is a member of the National Lawyers Guild. He writes as a jailhouse lawyer confined with the Federal Bureau of Prisons. He facilitates an Adult Continuing Education class on the use of

Frank Dobbin, Professor of Sociology, Harvard University, Ph.D. in Sociology, Stanford University, 1987.

Regents’ Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Minnesota.

B.A, 1963, Wayne State University; J.D., 1967, University of Chicago. The author has been at University of California at Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, since 1985 as Professor of Law and Director of the Earl Warren Legal Institute. His

United States District Judge for the Eastern District of New York.

Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering at NYU School of Law.

Law Clerk to the Honorable Royal Furgeson, Western District of Texas. J.D., May 2003, New York University School of Law.

Special Projects Attorney and Director, Homelessness Litigation Unit, Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles.

J.D., New York University School of Law, 1998.

J.D. Candidate, Stanford Law School, Class of 2018.

Harry Kalven, Jr., Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago.

Mr. Brooks has been professor at the Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations since 1961. Before joining Cornell University, he served as Director of Research and Education for the International Brotherhood of Pulp, Sulfite and Papermill Workers.

Before attending New York University School of Law, the author was an active rank and file member of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and Transport Workers Union.

Gerald Torres is the H.O. Head Centennial Professor of Real Property Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at the University of Texas School of Law. He also served as Vice Provost of the University of Texas. Immediately prior to

Director, Center for Applied Social Research, Northeastern University.

Associate Director, Temple University Center for Public Policy and Director of Research for Democracy, a joint project of the Eastern Pennsylvania Organizing Project and Temple University

Graham Gee is a lecturer in law at the University of Birmingham in England. His primary research interest lies in the nature of the British constitution, but he has written on the legal regulation of same-sex marriage in Canada, Massachusetts

J.D., University of Michigan Law School, 2014.

Duke University School of Law, J.D. 2016; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, B.A. 2012.

Professor of Law, Columbia University. A.B., 1951 Harvard University; LLB., 1953 Yale Law School. Served as Assistant District Attorney, New York County, from 1954 to 1968.

Associate Proiessor of Law, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. School of Law Newark. B.A. Harvard College, 1967, J.D. Yale Law School. 1971.

Hector Rodriguez is a father, friend, and abolitionist who advocates for closing down as many prisons as possible. At the age of 21, Hector was sentenced to 28 years to life, of which he served 27 years and two months. The

Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 1993-1996.

Executive director of the Association for Union Democracy.

Texas Tech Law Review Staff Editor; J.D. Candidate, Texas Tech University School of Law, 2020; B.A., Austin College, 2014.

Hina Shamsi is the director of the ACLU National Security Project, which is dedicated to ensuring that U.S. national security policies and practices are consistent with the Constitution, civil liberties, and human rights. She has litigated cases upholding the freedoms

Deputy Director, Mayor’s Office of Employment and Training, City or Chicago; formerly Assistant Professor of Economics at the New School for Social Research, New York City.

Austin Fletcher Professor of Philosophy, Tufts University.

J.D., University of Hawai‘i William S. Richardson School of Law, 2020; A.B., Dartmouth College, 2008.

A 2009 graduate of the Yale Law School, Ilana Gelfman is currently working as a Skadden Fellow at Greater Boston Legal Services.

Iron Thunderhorse is a published author of over 20 publications and a columnist and journalist whose work has been published in over 50 forums, and included in the work of many others. His official biography is: FOLLOWING THE FOOTPRINTS OF

Iva Petkova received a JD from NYU Law in May 2022 and currently works as an immigration lawyer in New York City.

Assistant Public Advocate, General Counsel and Training Consultant, Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy.

Jaclyn Younger, University of California, Hastings College of the Law, J.D. Candidate 2014.

Law Clerk, Hon. Ronnie Abrams, United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.

J. S. Russell is a returning citizen, mentor, entrepreneur, poet and self-published author who has written numerous books of poetry and children’s books while incarcerated. He has been published by NYU’s Review of Law and Social Change’s digital publication The

Professor of Criminal Justice, Northeastern University. B.A., 1972, University of Pennsylvania; M.A., 1972, University of Pennsylvania; M.A., 1973, University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D., 1976, University of Pennsylvania.

J.D. 1973, University of Chicago; Ph.D. 1975, University of Chicago. Professor of Law, New York University; Director, Center for Research in Crime and Justice.

Director of the State Appellate Defender’s Office for the State of Michigan. He is the former President of the National Legal Aid and Defender Association, the National Equal Justice Library, and the Criminal Defense Attorneys of Michigan. He has chaired

Associate Professor, College of Criminal Justice, Sam Houston State University.

Research assistant at the National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO), a private, non-profit membership and research organization.

Associate Professor, University of Akron School of Law.

Janet Benshoof is the President and Founder of the Global Justice Center and the founder and former president of the Center for Reproductive Rights. She has established landmark domestic and international legal precedents on women’s reproductive and equality rights, the

Catherine D. Pierson Associate Professor of Law, Tulane Law School.

Law Clerk to the Honorable Nicholas G. Garaufis, Eastern District of New York. J.D., New York University School of Law, 2005; M.A. (International Relations) Australian National University, 1999.

Attorney at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP.

Jazmine Curtis is a trans woman living in hiding after being unjustly deported to the Philippines in 2019. She has successfully been able to accept herself, regardless of status, looks, comfort, and support. Her goals include getting back to her

Jen Jenkins, J.D.’s current political home is Law for Black Lives. During and after law school, Jen successfully advocated for law and policy change in LGBTQ health and the criminal legal system. Jen grounds their work in a strong belief

Jennifer Davidson received her J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2018, and her A.B. from Dartmouth College in 2015.

Assistant Professor, University of Texas School of Law.

Law Clerk, the Honorable Audrey B. Collins, Central District of California. J.D., 1998, New York University School of Law, M. Phil., 1994, Oxford University; B.A., 1992, University of Pennsylvania.

Crawford Greene Fellow, Employment Law Center, San Francisco, California; J.D.Harvard Law School, 1995; B.A., Yale University, 1989.

B.A., 1985, Columbia University; Ph.D., 1993, Cornell University; J.D., 1999, New York University School of Law.

In reality, sit-lie laws threaten public safety by (1) diverting resources away from other social welfare programs that support safe communities, such as housing, healthcare, harm reduction programs for drug users, and community food security programs, (2) driving people who

A.B., Brown University, 1992; J.D., Yale Law School, 1995. The author is Founder and Executive Director of the Coalition for Civil Rights and Democratic Liberties.

Law Clerk to the Honorable Cheryl Ann Krause of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit; former law clerk to the Honorable Allyne R. Ross of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New

J.D. 2012, New York University School of Law.

Ji Seon Song is currently the Thomas C. Grey Fellow and Lecturer in Law at Stanford Law School. Her scholarship focuses on criminal and juvenile law; in particular, her research explores the intersection of the criminal and juvenile justice systems

Executive Director, Advocates for Children of New York; former Legal Director, The Door-A Center of Alternatives. J.D., New York University School of Law; B.A., Swarthmore College.

Director, State Appellate Defenders, Michigan. President-Elect, National Legal Aid and Defenders Association; Vice President, National Defenders Institute Member, ABA Stand-ing Committee for Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants. B.A., University of Notre Dame, 1966; J.D., University of Michigan, 1969.

Assistant Professor of Law, University of California, Hastings College of the Law.

Professor of Law, University of Missouri, Columbia; member, Board of Directors, Missouri Gerontology Institute; member, Center for Aging Studies Policy Board, University of Missouri, Columbia.

Jocelyn Simonson is Co-Director of the Harvard Law School Summer Theory Institute and a criminal defense attorney with The Bronx Defenders, Inc.

Professor of Law, Brooklyn Law School.

Executive Director, South Carolina Death Penalty Resource Center. B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; M.A.R, Yale University Divinity School; J.D., Yale Law School.

Assistant Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Greensboro. B.A., Columbia University, 1970; Ph.D., Columbia University, 1982. Author of Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970 (1983).  

John F. Kowal is Vice President for Programs at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law.

Professor of Law, University of Groningen School of Law. B.A., 1962, University of California(Berkeley); LL.B., 1965, Yale Law School. Former Professor of Law at New York University School of Law.

Professor in the Sociology Department at San Francisco State University.

Assistant Professor of Urban Planning, Columbia University.

John M. Jeffries is an economist at New York University’s Urban Research Center. His current research includes minority involvement in post-secondary vocational education and its influence on their integration into urban labor markets, and an assessment of how state and

New York University School of Law, J.D., 2014; New York University Stern School of Business, M.B.A., 2014.

Executive Director, New York State Defenders Association. B.A., Knox College, 1969; J.D., Hofstra University School of Law, 1973.

B.A., 1992, University of Pennsylvania; J.D., 1995, New York University; Law Clerk,United States District Court Judge Bruce M. Van Sickle, District of North Dakota.

Jonathan Rodriguez currently resides in Fishkill Correctional Facility and has been in prison for 19 years. He has received his associate’s degree in Liberal Arts from Bard Prison Initiative (BPI) in June 2021 and just applied to BPI’s bachelor’s program

Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Binghamton University.

J.D., 1999, N.Y.U. School of Law.

B.A., Miami University of Ohio, 1978; J.D., Rutgers University, 1981. Mr. Homack is associated with the firm of Edward Jaffee Abes and Associates in Pittsburgh and is Solicitor of the Steel Valley Authority.

Josh Zaharoff is a 2012 graduate of the N.Y.U. School of Law.

J.D., 1996, N.Y.U. School of Law; A.B., 1993, Harvard University; Associate, Patterson, Belknap, Welt & Tyler LLP, New York, NY.

B.A., Boston University; J.D., Columbia Law School. The author is Assistant Counsel at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.

Judy Chu is a Congresswoman from California who represents the 27th Congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives. She serves on the House Ways and Means Committee, and is a member of the Subcommittee on Health. She also serves

Staff Attorney, Family Defense Practice of Brooklyn Defender Services. J.D., 2017, New York University School of Law; B.A., 2010, Wesleyan University.

J.D., New York University School of Law, 2017.

Professor of Sociology and Dean for Master’s Programs, The Graduate Center, CUNY.

B.A., 1987, The Johns Hopkins University; J.D., 1993, New York University School of Law (expected).

B.S., 1985, Cornell University; J.D., 1988, Yale University. Ms. Mertus is an Assistant Corporation Counsel for the City of New York and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Government at New York University.

A.B., 1989, Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges; J.D., 1992, New York University School of Law;, M.A. (Political Science), 1994, University of Michigan. The author is currently a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the University of Michigan.

Third year law student at the University of Pennsylvania.

Supervising Attorney, CAMBA Legal Services. J.D., Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.

Associate Professor, CUNY School of Law.

Kaitlyn received her J.D. from New York University School of Law, and currently works at Arnold & Porter, LLP, in New York City.

Professor, University of Maryland School of Law.

Founding Steering Committee Member, API Equality-LA, and Vice-President of Programs & Communications, Asian Pacific American Legal Center, a member of the Asian American Center for Advancing Justice.

Kartik Sameer Madiraju, J.D. 2017 (Root-Tilden-Kern Scholar), New York University School of Law; B. Eng., M. Sc., McGill University.

Judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa (1994-2009).

J.D., New York University, 2011.

Ms. Stone is an attorney with the firm of Rabinowitz, Boudin, Standard, Krinsky & Lieberman.

Associate Professor, Santa Clara University School of Law.

B.A., 1991, University of Notre Dame; J.D., 1994, New York University School of Law.

I was born in the Caribbean. I am a former street reactionary and patriarch misogynist turned feminist and egalitarian revolutionary and activist. I am a political visual artist, poet and essayist, and upcoming author. My goal is to demonstrate to

The author is now a practicing tax attorney and is a former Managing Editor of the N.Y.U. Review of Law & Social Change. Prior to transitioning to law, Kendra received her Ph.D. in Experimental Pathology from the University of Virginia,

Willard and Margaret Carr Professor of Labor and Employment Law, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, B.A. 1978, University of Wisconsin, M.A., Economics, and J.D. 1981, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, Ph.D., Economics, 1984, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor.

Associate Professor, Paul M. Hebert Law Center of Louisiana State University. B.A., Louisiana Polytechnic Institute, 1969; J.D., University of Virginia, 1972; M.A., University of Virginia, 1975.

I will likely die in prison, or get out as an afflicted senior. This may be my just fate. Nevertheless, I live life as if I will be released tomorrow. Thus, I am currently in college and pursuing a paralegal

Kevin Bennardo is a Clinical Associate Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina School of Law and a Non-Resident Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the Republic of Palau.

Mitch Willoughby Professor, University of South Carolina School of Law, Richard S. Melvin Emeritus Professor, Indiana University Maurer School of Law, B.S. 1978, Indiana University, J.D. 1982, Yale Law School.

Khaled Beydoun is an Associate Professor at the University of Arkansas School of Law and Senior affiliated faculty at the University of California Berkeley Islamophobia Research and Documentation Project. His research examines the tension between First Amendment protections and prevailing

Dr. Khandare is Director of MSW Program and Co-Chair of Claire Argow Social Work Program at Pacific University and serves on EDI committee and Faculty Senate. Dr. Khandare is also appointed as a member on Global Young Academy (GYA) for

Professor Lan Cao is the Betty Hutton Williams Professor of International Economic Law at Chapman University’s Fowler School of Law (JD Yale Law School, BA Mount Holyoke College).

Associate Professor, Georgetown University Law Center. J.D., Boalt Hall School ofLaw, University of California, 1975; B.A., University of California at Santa Barbara, 1972.

Member, Oregon Bar. B.A., 1966, State University Of New York at Binghamton; M.S.W., 1968, University of Michigan School of Social work; J.D.. 1975, Lewis and Clark Law School. Deputy County Counsel, Multnomah County, Oregon.

Mr. Shadburn is a Program Officer for the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC). Although based in New York, Mr. Shadburn manages LISC’s Pittsburgh, Southwestern Pennsylvania and West Virginia programs.

Lee Gelernt is the Deputy Director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project. He is an adjunct professor at Columbia Law School. During the past 18 months he’s argued several groundbreaking challenges to Trump Administration policies. He regularly appears in the

Leo Cardez is an award-winning inmate writer. Cardez is a Pushcart Press Prize and Best Essays in America-nominated essayist and journalist. Mr. Cardez is a winner of the prestigious PEN America Award and was published in a print anthology earlier

Associate Professor of Law, the Earle Mack School of Law at Drexel University.

Lucas Guttentag is the Professor of the Practice of Law at Stanford Law School and Martin R. Flug Lecturer in Law and Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School. He is the founder and former national director of the ACLU’s

Lucy Gray-Stack has been a public defender in New Jersey since 2019, after receiving her JD from NYU Law School. During law school, Lucy interned at the Rhode Island Public Defender and the New Jersey Office of the Public Defender,

Harvard Law School, J.D. 2020.

Lydia Davenport is a graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, cum laude, and of Brown University.

Professor of Law, University of California, Berkeley; Chairman, Center for the Study of Law and Society. B.A., Austin College, 1969; M.A., University of Minnesota, 1967; Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1969.

Vice President, Conflict Management Resources, Inc.; Former Director, PINS Mediation Project of The Children’s Aid Society. B.A., 1966, Smith College; J.D., 1972, New York University School of Law.

Fiorello LaGuardia Professor of Clinical Law, New York University School of Law; Co-Director of the NYU Family Defense Clinic.

Mary Ziegler is the Stearns Weaver Miller Professor at Florida State University College of Law.  

B.A., 1976, Rutgers University; M.A., 1980, Montclair State College; M.A., 1982 and Ph.D., 1984, Adelphi University. The author is a supervising psychologist at University Behavioral Healthcare in Newark, New Jersey. He is also Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of

I live by the quote, “If Life is What You Make It, How Do You Change It?” I was born on April 5th, 1997. I am currently in prison serving a life sentence for being at the wrong place, at

Despite their distinct doctrinal backgrounds, family regulation and immigration enforcement systems mutually reinforce the state’s power to separate families...These systems, created independently, fail to account for each other’s consequences.

J.D. Candidate, University of Wisconsin Law School/M.S. – Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis Candidate, University of Wisconsin School of Education; B.S., University of Wisconsin, 2015.

Meg Barnette is a Skadden Fellow working as a staff attorney at the Lawyers Alliance for New York, the primary source of free and low-cost corporate, tax and real estate legal services available to not-for-profit and community development organizations in

Professor of Law, Albany Law School (J.D., The University of Michigan Law School).

Melissa S. Ader is a staff attorney in The Legal Aid Society’s Worker Justice Project, where she removes barriers to employment for New Yorkers with arrest and conviction records through the use of litigation, pre-litigation advocacy, advice to criminal defense

General Counsel, American Arbitration Association. B.S., Columbia University, 1956; J.D., Columbia University, 1958.

Professor of Law and Urban Planning, New York University and Director, New York University School of Law Center For Real Estate and Urban Policy.

Professor Michael Z. Green is a member of the Texas A&M University School of Law faculty. Professor Green’s scholarship focuses on workplace disputes and the intersection of race and alternatives to the court resolution process. He previously served on the

"Too often, even 28 years after the NYU clinic’s founding, parents and their lawyers are painted as people who are not focused on the child’s safety. This could not be further from the truth. Parents are the people who most

Staff attorney, New York City Commission on Human Rights AIDS Discrimination Unit. B.S., Cornell University, 1975; J.D., Rutgers Law School -Newark, 1981.

Molly Griffard, J.D., New York University School of Law, 2019; B.A. Macalester College, 2009.  

Associate, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr, LLP. J.D., Harvard Law School,2008. A.B., magna cum laude, Harvard College, 2003.

Monica (she/her) is a Litigation Fellow with the Immigrant Rights program at Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus. In this role, she focuses on cases challenging the detention and deportation of immigrant communities targeted for policing and immigration enforcement.

Assistant Professor and Director, Judge Elmo B. Hunter Legal Center for Victims of Crimes Against Women, SMU Dedman School of Law.

Nicole A. Ozer is the Technology and Civil Liberties Policy Director at the ACLU of Northern California (ACLU-NC), where she developed the organization’s Demand Your dotRights online privacy campaign. To learn more about her work and the campaign, please visit

Associate Professor and Co-Director, Defenders Clinic, The City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law.

Professor of Law, Hofstra Law School; Senior Research Scholar and Visiting Professor, Yale Law School.

Norrinda Brown Hayat is the Associate Professor of Law and Director of the Civil Justice Clinic, Rutgers Law School – Newark, J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, B.A., Dartmouth College.

Patrick Irving writes from the Idaho Maximum Security Institution, often cramped behind his desk, on the starboard side of the toilet, not infrequently rubbing shoulders while his cellie is taking the throne. It’s from this desk that he publishes the

Philip L. Torrey is the Director of the Harvard Law School Crimmigration Clinic and the Managing Attorney of the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program (HIRC), as well as a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. The Crimmigration Clinic

Phillip Vance Smith, II attends the College at Southeastern as a senior and works as a Writing Consultant. He coauthored The Prison Resources Repurposing Act, a legislative proposal for North Carolina. His most notable writings have appeared in The Humanist

Ralph Engelman is a co-author of the book “A Century of Repression: The Espionage Act and Freedom of the Press” (University of Illinois Press, 2022). Engelman is senior professor emeritus of journalism and communication studies at Long Island University, Brooklyn,

"Prosecutors [in juvenile court] can and do use the threat of adult prosecution as a bargaining chip, raising the stakes in a process that adolescents are developmentally ill-equipped to handle. . . Furthermore, evidence concerning racial disparities at all stages

Professor of Law, University of California, Los Angeles. B.A., Harvard College, 1962; LL.B., Columbia Law School, 1965; Ph.D., University of London, 1974.

Sea level is rising. Global topography and geology and the cost and scale of government adaptation solutions make it highly unlikely that governments will be able to protect all coastal communities. Who will be protected and for how long?

Special Counsel to Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom; Member of New York Bar; Co-Chair, Committee on Death Penalty of American Bar Association’s Section on Individual Rights and Responsibilities; Member, Legal Assistance Committee of Association of the Bar of the

Professor of Law and University Distinguished Professor, City University of NewYork (CUNY) School of Law.

Ryan Vogel is an assistant professor and founding director of the Center for National Security Studies at Utah Valley University. Vogel has worked in the U.S. Department of Defense, State Department, and Senate. He earned his B.S. from Utah Valley

Associate Professor of Law and Director of Research Civitas ChildLaw Center,Loyola University Chicago School of Law.

Sarita Miller is the editor of Daughters magazine. Daughters is for every incarcerated woman who is enduring the hardships and the oppression of being imprisoned. You can get in touch with Sarita and read the first two issues of Daughters

S. M. Steele serves his time as a Legal Information Specialist and Law Comprehension Coach. He earned his certificate in paralegalism from the Blackstone Career Institute in 2021 and applies the things he’s learned to improve juvenile civil rights. Steele

c. “Using emergency powers to sidestep the constitutionally-assigned processes for governance, in the way that President Trump used the declaration of national emergency to divert money from an appropriated use to build his border wall—a project which Congress had explicitly chosen

Shanta Trivedi is a Clinical Teaching Fellow in the University of Baltimore Bronfein Family Law Clinic.

A look into the origins of “sex testing” in sports makes it abundantly clear that sex testing and trans exclusion is part and parcel of a long history of gender policing of women, girls, and nonbinary people, particularly people of

Staff Attorney, Seattle-King County Public Defender Association. B.A., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1976; J.D., University of Southern California Law Center, 1984.

Associate Professor of Law, City University of New York Law School. B.A., Macalester College, 1968; J.D., University of Wisconsin Law School, 1972; Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1976.

Sonni Waknin is Program Manager and Voting Rights Counsel at the UCLA VRP.

Supervising Attorney, The Legal Aid Society Prisoners’ Rights Project (“PRP”).

Councilman Stephen DiBrienza was first elected to the City Council of the City of New York in 1985. He currently represents the 39th District. In January 1994, he was elected Chair of the General Welfare Committee of the City Council,

Stephen Vladeck is the A. Dalton Cross Professor in Law at the University of Texas School of Law. He has written for the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the New York Times, BuzzFeed, CNN, and the LawFare blog.

B.A., Harvard College, 1972; J.D., Harvard Law School, 1976; M.F.A., University of New Orleans, 1984.

"No, I’m not a plumber. I am a recently retired State Representative from Illinois. My role in the effort to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment (“ERA”) as a state representative, however, is very much akin to that of a plumber."