CENTER FOR LEGAL STUDIES

Past Events

Highlights:

2022 Law in Motion Lecture: "Uncovering the Precedential Weight of Slavery" with Assistant Professor of Law, Justin Simard,  Michigan State University College of Law (May 12, 2022)

• Watch a video of the lecture (transcript included)
  

2021 Law in Motion Lecture: "Fighting to Win: The Roles of Lawyering and Law Reform in Liberation Struggles" with Professor Dean Spade, Seattle University School of Law (May 13, 2021)

• Watch a video of the lecture
• CART (Communication Access Real-time Translation) Transcript available

• Recommended Readings: 

  • Vicky Osterweil, In Defense of Looting  
  • Mark Bray, Antifa: The Anti Fascist Handbook
  • Gord Hill, The Antifa Comic Book: 100 Years of Fascism and Antifa Movements
  • Writings by Peter Gelderloos
  • Writings by Cindy Milstein
  • Writings by Naomi Klein
  • Nick Estes and Jaskiran Dhillon, eds., Standing with Standing Rock: Voices from the #NoDAPL Movement
  • The Tilted Scales Collective, The Tilted Guide to Being a Defendant
  • Podcasts: It's Going Down podcast, Rebel Steps podcast, the Final Straw podcast, Black Agenda Report podcast

• Additional resources:

  • Dean Spade, Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law (Duke University Press, rev. ed. 2015)
  • Dean Spade, Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) (Verso Press, 2020)
  • Prof. Spade’s syllabi for courses on Law and Social Movements and Mutual Aid class at deanspade.net
  • Mutual aid toolkit with examples and links to COVID-19 mutual aid at bigdoorbrigade.com

Butterfly Politics, with Catharine MacKinnon, University of Michigan Law School (April 25, 2019)

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  _{MacKinnon signing a book and speaking with a student.}