Elizabeth J. Cabraser’s generous gift is helping the Equal Justice Society reactivate its Judge Constance Baker Motley Civil Rights Fellowship. Ms. Cabraser, who funded the 2001 conference that led to the founding of EJS, pledged to fund the fellowship for five years. “Our deep and profound gratitude to Elizabeth Cabraser for her funding of the Motley Fellowship,” … Continue reading Elizabeth Cabraser Provides Grant to the Equal Justice Society for Judge Constance Baker Motley Fellowship

Fighting Racism and Other Forms of Bias: What’s Working!? An Equal Justice Society Mind Science Conference June 22-23, 2018 Oakland Marriott City Center 1001 Broadway, Oakland If you are attending the conference, click here for complete details. Questions? Please contact Melissa Male: mmale@equaljusticesociety.org This conference is made possible through generous grants from the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, … Continue reading Equal Justice Society Mind Science Conference 2018

By Prof. Connie de la Vega, the Marshall P. Madison Professor And Academic Director Of International Programs and Dean's Circle Scholar at the University of San Francisco School of Law Separating children from their parents violates international law and in particular the Convention on the Rights of the Child which has been ratified by every country … Continue reading Separating children from their parents violates international law

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, The Leadership Conference Education Fund, Muslim Advocates, National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Educational Fund, National Coalition on Black Civic Participation, and 149 other grassroots, advocacy, labor, legal services, and other organizations today submitted a “friend of the court” brief in the litigation brought by the State … Continue reading EJS Joins 150+ Groups Urging Federal Court to Strike Census Citizenship Question

This text is from an email sent today by Vanita Gupta, President & CEO of The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights: All of us are outraged by the Trump Administration’s policy of separating children from their parents at the border. There have been many lows in recent days and months, but these actions are … Continue reading Update on activities to end family separation policy

This was originally posted on AILA.org The Catholic Legal Immigration Network, the American Immigration Council, the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, and the American Immigration Lawyers Association, collectively known as CARA, have joined forces in response to Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) significant expansion of its family detention at the South … Continue reading Attorneys and Paralegals Needed to Help Immigrants Oppressed by ICE

https://www.facebook.com/equaljusticesociety/posts/10155774152879624 Trump, Giuliani, Hannity, and Fox News are pushing the lie that the Mueller probe is a witchhunt that has come up with nothing. Recent polling indicates that 59% of our fellow Americans are not aware that indictments, criminal charges and guilty pleas are the concrete results of the probe by Robert Mueller. It is … Continue reading Most Americans do not know about the successes of Mueller probe. Please forward this video.