Still holding hope that the Seagull is Jesuit

The art is being both

Important New Professional-Client Speech Decision from the Third Circuit From Veterans Guardian VA Claim Consulting LLC v. Platkin, decided yesterday by Judge Stephanos Bibas, joined by Judges Anthony Scirica and Cheryl Krause:

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A new article on non-lawyer ownership by Professor Melissa Mortazavi, What Lawyers Could Learn from the Corporate Practice of Medicine journals.library.wustl.edu/lawpolicy/ar...

How We Got Here: Six Reasons Liberal Philanthropy Is Losing the Battle for America’s Future Drawing on conversations with leaders across the progressive funding and nonprofit worlds, IP Editor-in-Chief David Callahan tells a story of strategic missteps, blind spots and underinvestment that l...

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Less than 10 state bar associations signed onto this ABA statement in support of the rule of law? www.americanbar.org/news/abanews...

Today the Supreme Court of the State of Arizona adopted New Arizona Code of Judicial Administration § 7-211: Community-Based Justice Work Service Delivery Models, a critical step towards achieving meaningful access to civil justice for all Arizonans. www.azcourts.gov/Portals/22/a...

My students voted unanimously to shift one of our weeks on social movement lawyering to focus instead on the established but increasingly rich field of autocratization lawyering

Symposium - South Carolina Law Review

⚖️The 2025 SC Law Review Symposium, “Making Justice Real: Exploring the Intersection of Access to Justice, the Rule of Law, and Democracy" kicked off last week with our very own @mjburnett.bsky.social, @williamhjhubbard.bsky.social, and Rebecca Sandefur speaking.
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An event promotional graphic for the 69th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW69). It announces a session titled "Promising Practices to Reduce the Harmful Impact of Imprisonment on Women: A Key Step Forward in Implementing the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action." The event details are as follows: March 17, 2025; 10:00–11:15 a.m. (EST); United Nations Headquarters, Conference Room 9. The graphic features logos of organizing and supporting entities on top. A background image of Lady Justice is subtly visible, emphasizing themes of justice and equity. The color scheme is blue and red, with bold typography highlighting the session title and details.

🤔 How can we reduce the harmful impacts of women imprisonment from a global POV?

💡 An upcoming #CSW69 side event will highlight the links between poverty & the scale of the problem for incarcerated women & innovative solutions that UN Member States can adopt.

RSVP: www.sdg16.plus/events/csw69...

Congrats to Alaska Legal Services on winning the 2025 Michael Mills InnovAction Award for their groundbreaking Community Justice Worker program! www.collegeoflpm.org

The World Justice Project & Ministry of Justice of Poland will convene the World Justice Forum 2025 from June 23-26 in Warsaw, Poland. Early-bird rate available until April 25, 2025. Hope to see you there! worldjusticeproject.myevent.pl

Lawyers in Backsliding Democracy — California Law Review This Article explores the role of lawyers in democratic backsliding—the degradation of democratic institutions and practices using law rather than violence. The Article’s central aim is to set an agen...

For folks thinking more deeply these days about why and how lawyers attack the rule of law, I’d recommend this piece by Scott Cummings, “Lawyers in Backsliding Democracy” www.californialawreview.org/print/lawyer...