Lawyering for Liberation

Ameca Reali is Executive Director of the Louisiana Fair Housing Action Center and former Membership Director at Law for Black Lives.Marbré Stahly-Butts is Associate Professor at CUNY School of Law and cofounder and former Executive Director of Law for Black Lives.

• Contents  PrefaceAcknowledgments  Introduction  I. Making Change: The What of Movement Lawyering1. Revolutions Happen in the Streets Not CourtroomsTheory of ChangeCommon Theories of ChangeThe Theory of Movement LawyeringLearn Something from ThisResourcesReflection  2. Beyond Your Mama's Liberation Movement: A Grounding in Our PoliticsOur PoliticsOur MovementsLearn Something from ThisResourcesReflection  3. This Is a Call-In (Not a Call-Out)The Dos and Don'ts of Movement LawyeringMovement Lawyering Gone WrongLearn Something from ThisResourcesReflection  II. Get in Formation: The How of Movement Lawyering4. We in These StreetsBiographical Reflection: Building Infrastructure from the RubbleTactical Case Study: Lessons from Ferguson for Movement LawyersThe Hard Stuff: Movement Lawyering in a Time of Genocide—Bolstering the Palestine Movement Through a Crisis of RepressionPraxis: Standing Up for the Right to Resist at the Global LevelLearn Something from ThisResources  5. Bringing Movements into the CourthouseBiographical Reflection: My Journey to Movement LawyeringTactical Case Study: The Radically Inclusive Amicus Litigation Strategies of Centering Black Trans VoicesThe Hard Stuff: Resolving the Tensions in Movement LawyeringPraxis Case Study: Four Organizing Lessons for Lawyers from Floyd LitigationLearn Something from ThisResources for Radical Litigation  6. Frontline Defenders for the RevolutionBiographical Reflection: Navigating the Family Regulation System as an Abolitionist Public DefenderTactical Case Study: Navigating Organizing as a Public DefenderThe Hard Stuff: The Ethics of Frontline Legal Defense in a Housing CrisisLearn Something from ThisResources  7. Policymaking for RadicalsBiographical Reflection: Black Feminist Lessons in Representing and Organizing Women with Incarcerated Loved OnesTactical Case Study: The Grassroots Struggle for Chicago Police Torture SurvivorsThe Hard Stuff: "Radical" Means Getting to the Root—Navigating Policy Advocacy in Support of Transformative Social ChangePraxis: Crafting Prison Industrial Complex Abolitionist PolicyLearn Something from ThisResources  8. Teaching the RevolutionBiographical Reflection: Dispatches from the Clinical UndercommonsTactical Case Study: Bridging Academy and CommunityThe Hard Stuff: Navigating a Collision CoursePraxis: Understanding Law and PowerLearn Something from ThisResources  ContributorsIndex