Azadeh Shahshahani, the Legal and Advocacy Director at Project South, is a movement lawyer dedicated to confronting state repression and dismantling systems of surveillance, incarceration, and deportation.
Join us for a conversation with Azadeh Shahshahani as she talks about her work in the U.S. South and support for social movements in the Global South as a movement lawyer.
Join Azadeh Shahshahani for an informal conversation about movement lawyering, building a career in public interest law, and working alongside communities to challenge injustice. Students will have the opportunity to ask questions and learn from her over two decades of advocacy.
Previous G. Rollie White Scholar in Residence Events
Join Sarah Rich for a conversation about being an attorney, advocate, and policy analyst based in Atlanta with Democracy Forward with a focus on immigration and democracy.
Sarah M. Rich is an attorney, advocate, and policy analyst based in Atlanta with Democracy Forward, with a focus on immigration and democracy. Rich visits Texas Law as the Justice Center's 13th G. Rollie White Public Interest Scholar in Residence.
Environmental attorney Patrice Simms, G. Rollie White Public Interest Scholar in Residence, reflects on his path pursuing social justice in public interest, government, and academic settings.
Patrice Simms, Vice President of Litigation for Healthy Communities at Earthjustice, Co-founder of People over Plastic, and Visiting Professor at Harvard Law, visits Texas Law as the Justice Center's 11th G. Rollie White Public Interest Scholar in Residence.
Demetria McCain, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, will be available to meet with students for office hours and lunch
McCain, HUD Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity, will give a talk entitled “Federal Fair Housing Policy in the Biden-Harris Administration.”
Join the Mithoff Program in a conversation with Lee Gelernt and Steven Herzog about their work to locate migrant parents deported without their children
Allen will discuss his cutting edge firm practice and how he transitioned from the nonprofit to the for-profit sector, and then meet with students individually in the CSO suite
G. Rollie White Scholar in Residence Janelle Orsi, Executive Director & Co-Founder of the Sustainable Economies Law Center, will discuss the rapidly changing state of the sharing economy as well as ways in which the sharing economy could be, and in some cases is already, a truly transformative force for social and environmental justice.
G. Rollie White Scholar in Residence Janelle Orsi, Executive Director & Co-Founder of the Sustainable Economies Law Center, will speak and join a panel discussion with local lawyers whose transactional practices promote social justice.
Christy E. Lopez, deputy chief, Special Litigation Section, Civil Rights Division, Justice Department, on “Policing the Police: The Federal Government’s Role in Reforming Police Practices.”
Town of Greece involves legal limits on public prayer in government meetings. Laycock argued before the US Supreme Court on behalf of Galloway last fall.
Kathryn S. Fuller, ’76, Chair of the Ford Foundation, Former President and CEO of the World Wildlife Fund, Visits Texas Law as the Inaugural G. Rollie White Public Service Scholar-in-Residence, March 8-10
