Welcome to Review of Law and Social Change’s 2025 Colloquium. We are so excited to invite you to this year’s colloquium, Ready for the Fight: Labor Law, Unions, and Social Movements! We hope this colloquium and zine will show just a small sliver of the many ways workers are organizing for justice in their workplaces and beyond, challenging racial, economic, and colonial subordination.

Despite historically low union density and existential attacks on the NLRB, union election petitions and public support for unions are the highest they’ve been in decades. This reflects that worker organizing, whether through a formally recognized union or not, stands to be one of the most important vehicles for grassroots, collective action.

This colloquium and this zine invites you to think about the ways the law shapes how workers organize and build power, and asks you to think critically about how lawyers can most effectively and creatively support working-class power. We also encourage future and current lawyers to think of themselves as workers, and in solidarity with other working people across the country and the world.

We have a very exciting array of workshops and panels over the next two days, and are excited to share even more insights from union members and worker-organizers through the interviews and statements in this zine!

View and download the zine here!

RLSC would like to thank our co-sponsors: OUTLaw, Black Law Student Association, Disability Allied Law Students Association, Ending the Prison Industrial Complex, Immigrant Rights Project, Environmental Law Society, Law Women, Asian-Pacific Allied Law Students Association, NYU Center on Race, Inequality, and the Law, Women of Color Collective, Asian/Pacific/American Institute, NYU South Asian Law Students Association, Cohen, Weiss & Simon LLP.