When I opened the New York Times website yesterday, I was really glad to see that one of the most popular articles was about the surge of young lawyers joining the public interest field. The article centered around the phenomenon of deferred associates spurred by the recent recession. "BigLaw" corporate firms have been affected ...
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The need for “holistic advocacy”
I've recently been reading more about "holistic advocacy," and I think it's an incredibly important theme for public defenders and others in the indigent defense community around the world to think about (not that I have much expertise on this topic...but here's my two cents anyway!). Here's an excellent quote from Robin Steinberg, Executive Director ...
Injustice in Haiti’s Prisons
I just found an excellent and heartwrenching article about Haiti's incarcerated minors, and more broadly the life-threatening prison conditions in Haitian prisons as well as the lack of legal infrastructure. As in so many other developing countries, innocent individuals are often wrongfully convicted and thrown in jail, only to languish in the face of ...
Feature Friday: Paralegal Advisory Service Institute
Path to Justice from Penal Reform International on Vimeo. This quarter, I'm interning with the Northwestern University Center on International Human Rights, a legal clinic in the law school. One of our projects is an ...
Two roads diverge: two paths to thinking about social change
Recently, through a particularly enlightening conversation with a friend, I realized that there are, essentially, two pathways or methods of thinking about social change and development approaches. There is the "capitalistic" mode of thinking, and the "social justice" mode of thinking. While this is, essentially, the split that so starkly separates ...