25th Rebellious Lawyering Conference

  • 15 Feb 2019
  • 16 Feb 2019
  • Yale Law School 127 Wall Street New Haven, Connecticut


Link to register:  https://reblaw.yale.edu/

RebLaw is the nation's largest student-run public interest conference. Every year the conference brings together practitioners, law students, and community activists from around the country to discuss innovative, progressive approaches to the law and social change. The conference, grounded in the spirit of Gerald Lopez’s Rebellious Lawyering, seeks to build a community of law students, practitioners, and activists seeking to work in the service of social change movements and to challenge hierarchies of race, wealth, gender, and expertise within legal practice and education.

Our 2019 keynote speakers  are: 
Ana Maria Archila - Co-Executive Director of the Center for Popular Democracy
Anita Earls - Associate Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court 
Larry Krasner - District Attorney of Philadelphia
 Chokwe Lumumba - Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi

Panels and Workshop topics this year include: 

The Criminalization of Homelessness; 

A New Labor Law: Labor Organizing After the NLRA; 

The Palestinian Exception to Free Speech; 

Formerly Incarcerated Advocates; 

Lawyering in Solidarity with Sex Workers; 

Intersectional Approaches to Reproductive Justice; 

Reclaiming the Law of Money and Finance;

Law and Political Economy; 

Resisting Hierarchy on the Left: Reckoning with Racial Capitalism; 

Model Minority or Righteous Rebels: Towards a Progressive Asian American/API Agenda; 

Due Process in Prison Systems; 

From Dirty Wars to War on Immigrants, Black Bodies: Sanctuary in Past & Now; 

Cyborg Culture Workshop: Rebellious Lawyering and Tech; 

Voting Rights; 

Disability and Healthcare Activism: Visual, Political, and Legal Modes of Protest; 

Municipal Organizing for Environmental Justice; 

And many more!

The conference relies on registration dollars; to make the conference accessible for all, please pay the $10 registration fee if at all possible. However, there is a waiver option is for those facing financial difficulties.