AALS Open Source Program

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Session Type: AALS Open Source Programs

Session Capacity: N/A

Location: Hilton San Francisco Union Square

Room: Plaza A

Floor: Lobby Level

This session is an urgent cause for action and open call to envision a democratized legal future. As numerous reports, student movements, and forms of scholarship-activism insist, traditional U.S. legal education remains a space of fiercely upheld and intentionally unnamed systems of power. In exploring legal education’s present, past, and potential futures, attendees are invited to reflect on their own role in either disrupting or extending the harmful legacy of the law school. ​​Through conscious, collective processes of (re)imagination, this program explores how we might forge future courses, careers, and institutions premised on community legal power.