Join us as we check-in with each other at our bi-monthly meeting. The second meeting of each month will also feature a guest speaker.

This month will feature guest speakers Ray Brescia and Caroline Bettinger-Lopez to discuss their recent collaboration, Crisis Lawyering: Effective Legal Advocacy in Emergency Situations.

Ray Brescia is the Hon. Harold R. Tyler Chair in Law and Technology and Professor of Law at Albany Law School, in Albany, NY.

Caroline Bettinger-Lopez is a Professor of Law and Director of the Human Rights Clinic at the University of Miami School of Law.

From the NYU Press website:

Crisis Lawyering explores this phenomenon and attempts to identify and define what it means to engage in the practice of law in crisis situations. In so doing, it hopes to sketch out the contours of the emerging field of crisis lawyering. Contributors to this volume explore cases surrounding domestic violence; dealing with immigrants in detention and banned from travel; policing in Ferguson, Missouri; the kidnapping of journalists; and climate change, among other crises. Their analysis not only serves as guidance to lawyers in such situations, but also helps others who deal with crises understand those crises - and the role of lawyers in them - better so that they may respond to them more effectively, efficiently, collaboratively and creatively.

Questions for Professors Brescia and Bettinger-Lopez can be sent to samantha.howell@southernlegal.org in advance.

The book can be purchased at for $45 at https://nyupress.org/9781479801701/crisis-lawyering/