Lawyering, Leadership, and Democracy – Public Service
How are lawyers working to promote diverse electoral representation and ensure broad voting access? Are lawyers mere partisans or do they have a special role in advancing rule of law values in service of democracy? In this episode, the hosts meet with Amanda Litman (Run for Something) and Sam Spital (NAACP Legal Defense Fund) to delve into public service, the aftermath of the 2020 election, and the roles that lawyers play in the democratic process.
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Building Inclusive Law Schools
In this episode, we examine how law schools have responded to calls to develop new curriculum and pedagogy that is critical, inclusive, and attentive to how race, power, and identity shape jurisprudence and the culture of law schools. Through conversations with Susan Sturm (George M. Jaffin Professor of Law and Social Responsibility), Kendall Thomas (Nash Professor of Law), and Professor Meera Deo (Southwestern Law School), the hosts explore the role of hiring practices, pedagogy and curriculum in law schools’ evolving anti-racism efforts.
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Can Big Law Be Anti-Racist?
Can “Big Law,” the segment of the legal industry that regularly provides assistance, representation and counsel to the nation’s largest and most powerful corporate and economic actors, be an effective force for racial equity in the nation? If so, what are the crucial steps? In the third installment of our podcast, Professor Scott Cummings (UCLA) and Debo Adegbile (WilmerHale) join the hosts to address the role of “Big Law” in shaping a multiracial democracy.
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Civil Rights Lawyering in the Age of Abolition
Traditionally, civil rights lawyers have focused on establishing anti-discrimination rights in courts. But today, the Movement for Black Lives, abolitionist, and other social movements de-center courts and instead emphasize the need to to build power to advance transformative social change. Can these approaches to social change be reconciled? Through conversation with Ashok Chandran (NAACP LDF), Theodore Shaw (UNC Center for Civil Rights), and Alexis J. Hoag (Brooklyn Law School), co-hosts Olatunde Johnson and Andre Esteves delve into the history of civil rights lawyering, and examine how it is responding to current social movements.
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Why This Podcast?
Join the hosts of Through the Gale as they detail the background and significance of podcast, and give listeners a preview of what's to come.
Through the Gale explores the role of lawyers in the struggle for multiracial democracy. How are lawyers responding to the changes wrought by the racial uprisings of 2020, the pandemic, and January 6th? A group of Columbia Law Students talk to leading legal professionals and scholars to examine how lawyers are working to build a racially equitable society.
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