During this year's 2nd Annual Social Justice Week observance, student groups will be sponsoring various activities and events. Today, September 3rd, the Domestic Violence Legal Program will hold a Self-Defense Workshop at 6:45 p.m. at the USD Wellness Center. On Wednesday, September 4th, Women in Law will conduct the "Quiz Your Professor" contest at 4 p.m. in Law School Room 101. On Thursday, September 5th, the OUTlaws' Social will be at Carey's Bar starting at 5 p.m. in downtown Vermillion, followed by the Law Students for Reproductive Justice "Sex and the Law Trivia" contest at 6:30 p.m. To round out the week, the Native American Law Students Association will have a film screening of Thunderheart on Friday, September 6th, at 7 p.m. in Law School Room 102.
In conjunction with this week's activities, the Law Library has created a display of books and other items from the collection on the topic of "Social Justice." Included in the display are the following books: Law and Social Justice (Joseph Keim Campbell et al. eds., 2002); Evan Gerstmann, Same-Sex Marriage and the Constitution (2004); It's Harder in Heels: Essays by Women Lawyers Achieving Work-Life Balance (Jacquelyn Hersh Slotkin & Samantha Slotkin Goodman, eds., 2007); and Bruce E. Johansen, Debating Democracy: Native American Legacy of Freedom (1998). Also included in the display are the law review article by Willima P. Quigley cited above and Charles Elsesser"s Community Lawyering - The Role of Lawyers in the Social Justice Movement, 14 Loy. J. Pub. Int. L. 375 (2012). These articles about social justice, as well as social justice articles from other public interest and social justice law journals and law reviews, can be accessed by USD students and faculty from HeinOnline.
(This entry was originally written and posted by Marsha Stacey)
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