Shaking the Foundations: The West Coast Conference on Progressive Lawyering
Stanford Law School
October 16th-17th, 2009
Shaking the Foundations Mission
Shaking the Foundations is an annual conference designed to encourage students to use their legal skills in the struggle for social justice, to provide a forum for the discussion of creative strategies used by the nation's top legal advocates and activists to further progressive goals, and to help students develop relationships within the progressive legal community.
Check out last year's conference information below. This
year's panels will be updated soon!
2008 Panels and Workshops
Empower: Advocacy Boot Camp
The workshops at Shaking the Foundations focus on pairing innovative intellectual approaches with the creative, hands-on, practical skills that students will need to be effective advocates.
Topics include: Feminist Lawyering, Advocacy and Mental Health, Lawyering for Prisoners of Conscience, Legal Observing, and Crimes Against Children.
Envision: Electing the Future
Shaking the Foundations 2008 will incorporate panels and workshop that focus on elections.
Topics include: Voting Rights, Poll Watching Workshop, and The Race and Class Implications of the Primary and Caucus System.
Engage: Big Ideas
Shaking the Foundations seeks to present panels and speakers on interesting topics that matter - topics that take classroom discourse one step further, translating ideas into action.
Topics include: Media Coverage of the Criminal Justice System, Public Interest Lawyering in Private Firms, Environmental Justice and Climate Change, and Human Trafficking.
Community Building
Shaking the Foundations brings together law students and practitioners from around the country.
Our public interest career forum brings together conference goers and representatives from public interest organizations throughout the west coast, connecting students with future employers and mentors.
Sponsors
Thank You To Our Supporters!
Patrons
Advocates
Sponsors
Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger LLP
Hadsell Stormer Keeny Richardson & Renick, LLP