Teaching Justice Webinar Series

A project of CLEA's Best Practices Committee

What is the Teaching Justice Webinar Series?

The Teaching Justice Webinar series highlights new experiential approaches to teaching justice in the classroom, drawing on the wisdom of the current resistance movement and examining its intersections within a number of areas of law. This series explores the theory behind experiential faculty’s decision-making processes during an intense political movement, asking the question, “How do we show up as lawyers and teachers?” Presenters hope to develop a shared vocabulary and a deeper understanding of what it means to be a lawyer, whether we consider ourselves movement lawyers, rebellious lawyers, or transformative lawyers. 

Upcoming Teaching Justice Webinars

Spring 2024

April 3: Teaching Disability Justice

Taught by Sarah Lorr (Brooklyn Law)

2 pm ET/1 pm CT/12 pm MT/11 am PT

Register here!

April 10: Teaching Early Family Defense

Taught by Julia Hernandez and Tarek Ismail (CUNY Law)

1 pm ET/12 pm CT/11 am MT/10 am PT

Register here!

Past Teaching Justice Webinars

Spring 2024

Teaching Liberatory Justice

February 27, 2024

Taught by Ragini Shah (Suffolk Law)


Teaching Critical Clinical Frames

January 23, 2024

Taught by Kris Henning & Eduardo Ferrer (Georgetown University Law Center)

Fall 2023

Teaching Abolition Feminism Through Work with Criminalized Survivors

November 8, 2023

Taught by Leigh Goodmark (University of Maryland Carey School of Law)


Building on Teaching Critical Legal Research with Law Librarians

October 11, 2023

Taught by Priya Baskaran (American University Washington College of Law), Latia Ward (University of Virginia School of Law), Nicholas Stump (West Virginia University School of Law), Nicholas Mignanelli (Yale Law)

Critical Legal Research Bibliography



Spring 2023

Teaching Justice through Reparations: a Cross-Clinic Collaboration

April 13, 2023

Taught by Lynnise E. Pantin (Columbia), Amber Baylor (Columbia), Tomica Saul (Columbia)


March 8, 2023

Teaching Justice through Critical Race Lawyering

Taught by Erika Wilson (UNC)


January 31, 2023

Teaching Justice under the ABA's Standard 303 mandate

Taught by Carolyn Grose (Mitchell Hamline); Gautam Hans (Cornell); Renee Hatcher (UIC Law); and Elizabeth Cooper (Fordham)

Fall 2022

December 8, 2022 

Participatory Scholarship & Redeeming Justice

Taught by Rachel Lopez (Drexel), Kempis “Ghani” Songster and Terrell “Rell” Carter



November 10, 2022

Critical Legal Research: Teaching Social Justice-Oriented Research in Clinic

Taught by Priya Baskaran (American) Nicholas Mignanelli (Yale)




October 18, 2022

Teaching Justice through a Policy Advocacy Clinic

Taught by Stephanie Campos Bui (Berkeley Law) and Rachel Wallace (Berkeley Law)



Spring 2022

April 20, 2022

Teaching Justice through Clinical Deaning

Taught by Robin Walker Sterling (Northwestern Law)



April 1, 2022

Teaching Justice and Equity through Externships

Taught by Alexi Freeman (Denver Sturm College of Law)


February 24, 2022

Teaching Justice Through Critical Race Theory 

Taught by Karla McKanders (Vanderbilt Law)


November 11, 2021

Teaching Justice through Freedom Pedagogy

Taught by Norrinda Hayat (Rutgers Law)


October 12, 2021

Teaching Justice through Teaching Ethics 

Taught by Gautam Hans (Vanderbilt Law School)


March 15, 2021

Teaching Justice through Abolition

Taught by Alexis Hoag (Columbia Law School) 



February 25, 2021

Lawyering Across Silos for Community Equity

Taught by Deborah Archer (NYU Law School) & Kele Stewart (University of Miami)


November 18, 2020

Teaching Human Rights Lawyering Through the Lens of Critical Theory

Taught by Denisse Córdova Montes & Caroline S. Bettinger-López (University of Miami Law School) 


Beyond the Carceral State: Critically Teaching Criminal Law & Criminal Procedure

October 30, 2020

Taught by Amna Akbar (Ohio State University Moritz College of Law) and Jocelyn Simonson (Brooklyn Law School)

Teaching Justice by Keeping Families Together 

January 23, 2020 

Taught by Erin Miles Cloud (Movement for Family Power) & Bobbi Butts (Starting Over Inc.) 

Teaching Environmental Justice Through Transactional Law

December 12, 2019

Taught by Camille Pannu



Teaching Racial Justice

June 26, 2019 

Taught by Jyoti Nanda (UCLA School of Law, Youth & Justice Clinic) and Mary Yanik (Tulane Law, Immigration Practicum and Senior Staff Attorney, New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice


Teaching Justice through Misdemeanor Defense

April 9, 2019

Taught by M. Eve Hanan (UNLV, Boyd School of Law), Robin Walker Sterling (Denver, Sturm College of Law), Rachal Moran (University of St. Thomas School of Law), and Anne Traum (UNLV, Boyd School of Law).


Teaching Justice in the Context of Immigrants’ Rights

December 6, 2018

Taught by Annie Lai, Clinical Professor of Law and Co-Director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic at the University of California, Irvine School of Law, and Sameer Ashar, Vice Dean for Experiential Education and Professor of Law, UCLA. 

Download the powerpoint presentation used during the December 6th webinar here.


Shifting Power through Transformative Lawyering in Community Economic Development

September 26, 2018 

Taught by Renee Hatcher, Assistant Professor of Law and Director of the Business Enterprise Law Clinic at The John Marshall Law School, Alicia Alvarez (Michigan Law), Dorcas Gilmore (Univ. of Maryland Law), and Susan Bennett (American University – WCL).

For questions about this series please contact the co-directors of the webinar series sub-committee, Laila Hlass lhass@tulane.edu or Allison Korn korn@law.ucla.edu.

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