This morning at the ABA Annual Meeting in Boston, I attended a session titled “The Changing Legal Landscape of Women’s Health and Reproductive Rights: The Struggle for Control.” Throughout the country, states are enacting laws that give government increasing powers over women’s reproductive rights and health care decisions. At the federal level, the Affordable Care …
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Hackcess to Justice 2014 Hackathon
The ABA Journal hosted Hackcess to Justice in Boston, MA on Thursday and Friday, a hackathon to encourage the legal and tech communities to develop innovative tools to help break down barriers for low income individuals in need of access to lawyers and legal services for civil legal issues. According to the official mission statement …
Examining the Dream of Brown and the Civil Rights Act
This afternoon, I attended a session called “A Turn To Justice: Examining the Dream of Brown and the Civil Rights Act” at the ABA Annual Meeting. Photos were on display throughout the room from the eras of Brown and the Civil Rights Movement and the Freedom Riders Traveling Exhibit, which seemed to bring everyone into …
Podcast: Interview with ABA Liberty Award winner Okianer Christian Dark
Fueled by her witness to and personal experience with discrimination, Dean Okianer Christian Dark channeled her sorrow and anger into action serving as lifelong role model of, and champion for, justice and equal rights in the public sector, private sector, and today as a teacher, mentor and dean at Howard University School of Law. This …
Barriers to reentry: Reconsidering collateral consequences
The Criminal Justice Section of the American Bar Association sponsored a panel discussion at the ABA Annual Meeting this morning. The panel discussion began with a definition of collateral consequences: they exclude any sanction that a judge imposes as part of a sentence (i.e., probation). A collateral consequence would be an additional restriction aside from …
Day of the Woman celebrated at the ABA Annual Meeting
Women attorneys of America – unite! Women attorneys were celebrated on Aug. 9, 2013 at the American Bar Association’s Annual Meeting in San Francisco, Calif. “The Day of the Woman,” which commemorated the 25th anniversary of the Commission on Women in the Profession, marked the progress women lawyers have made and the work still to be …
Podcast: Sharon Sayles Belton and ABA TIPs Liberty Award winner Steven Shapiro
Just in time for the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Annual Meeting in San Francisco later this week, Sharon Sayles Belton, vice president of Community Affairs at Thomson Reuters, chatted with this year’s ABA Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section (TIPs) Liberty Award recipient, Steven Shapiro. The award, sponsored by Thomson Reuters, will be presented to …
