2012 RebLaw Conference

Registration is OPEN for the 2012 RebLaw ("Rebellious Lawyering") Conference! RebLaw 2012 will be held at Yale Law School on the weekend of February 17-18.

You can register here.

This year's keynote speaker will be Gerald Lopez, UCLA law professor and author of "Rebellious Lawyering: One Chicano's Vision of Progressive Law Practice."

Our keynote panel on "The Criminalization of Poverty" will feature Andrea Ritchie, co-author of "Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States" and coordinator of Streetwise and Safe; Andrew Friedman, co-founding director of Make the Road New York; and Lisa Daugaard, supervisor of the Seattle Defender Association's Racial Disparity Project.

We will have nearly two dozen panels and workshops, including: *Enforcing Labor Rights in a Transnational World * Mobilizing for Sexual and Reproductive Justice * Strategic Lawyering for Collective Entities: Models, Methods and Movement Building * Fighting the Monopoly on Medicine * Fallout from the Wal-Mart Decision * Crime, But Not Punishment: Restorative Justice As An Alternative to Criminal Prosecution in Domestic & International Contexts * The Work JDs Do in Education Reform * Race and Voting * Prison Re-Entry * Sovereignty, Identity, and Genocide: U.S. Law and Native Bodies * Transnational LGBT Advocacy * Confronting Big Food * Juvenile Justice * Rethinking the Public Interest Law Market * Union organizing * Environmental Justice * and more!

You can find more details on the conference at www.yale.edu/reblaw.