Politically Inclined
When Gaby Goldstein (’06) and a few members of a private Facebook group for progressive attorneys put up a website after the 2016 election seeking volunteers to help elect liberal candidates outside reliably blue states, the response was overwhelming.
Demand the Impossible
From 1982 to 2016, Stephen B. Bright served as director, and later president and senior council, of the Southern Center for Human Rights, a non-profit public interest law firm that worked to enforce the civil and human rights of people in the criminal justice system, particularly those facing the death penalty and challenging cruel and unusual incarceration conditions.
The Drama of Legal Ideas
Professor Robert L. Tsai, an expert on constitutional law, political development, and equality, is exploring a new genre in his next book. His deep dive into the life of Stephen Bright, a passionate defender of racial justice and equality, aims to be both a satisfying intellectual read and a tantalizing legal thriller.
Still Casting A Shadow
After the terrorist attacks of September 2001, Catherine Mitrano (CAS’89, LAW’89) was among a select group of federal attorneys tasked with creating the newly authorized US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), a cabinet-level entity that consolidated all or part of nearly two dozen autonomous agencies, including US Customs, the Transportation Security Administration, the Secret Service, and the Department of Agriculture.