Legal Empowerment and Jailhouse Lawyering – Advancing Justice from the Inside Out
9:30-11:00 AM
Recording: https://nyulaw.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=371bcaea-ca3e-4ff1-ba91-b20b013a59c9
Speakers:
Meena Jagannath, Movement Law Lab
Awande Mshotana, People’s Law Paralegal Education Centre
Jhody Polk, Jailhouse Lawyer Initiative
Schu’aib Abdur, Common Justice
Moderator, Sukti Dhital, Bernstein Institute
This opening panel will collectively construct a framework on how legal empowerment and jailhouse lawyering advance justice from the inside out. Presenters will reflect on their lived experience and expertise as jailhouse lawyers and justice allies to shed light on the power of collaboration, use of participatory legal processes, and an ethic of care as essential tools to reforming and abolishing the carceral system, and building a just world together.