For Immediate Release, Fall 2009
Inaugural Issue, Website Launch, and Symposium
The Los Angeles Public Interest Law Journal (LAPILJ) announces the publication of its first issue, centered on Immigrants’ Rights. To coincide with the publication, the journal also launched its website, available at http://lapilj.org.
LAPILJ, founded in 2007 by a Loyola law student, is different from sister social justice publications in that it has been continued by a group of law students from four area law schools: Loyola, Pepperdine, UCLA, and USC. With independent thought and operation as priorities, LAPILJ is independently run by this collaboration of law students as a project of Community Partners–a non-profit incubator organization.
The goal of the journal is two-fold, to engage and inform law students, practitioners, and other active community members as well as to provide a forum for discussion and idea generation around social justice issues in Southern California.
The Journal’s first symposium, held at Loyola Law School in Fall 2008, was themed on Immigrants’ Rights. The inaugural issue includes four articles on this topic, including a conversation with anti-trafficking advocates Kathleen Kim and Charles Song, and a history of the transformation of the Los Angeles worker center movements. In addition to these themed articles are others on emancipation preparation for foster youth in California and the intersection of gay equality, religious liberty, and the first amendment.
Uniquely, the Journal also has a "Community Voices" section that includes letters to young public interest attorneys from esteemed practitioners as well as letters from clients of social justice advocates. All of the articles are available online at the newly launched website.
On October 23, 2009 the Journal hosted its second symposium, at UCLA Law, on “Recovery and Reform: The State Budget, the Federal Stimulus, and How Los Angeles Public Interest Lawyers Can Lead the Movement For Change."
LAPILJ, founded in 2007 by a Loyola law student, is different from sister social justice publications in that it has been continued by a group of law students from four area law schools: Loyola, Pepperdine, UCLA, and USC. With independent thought and operation as priorities, LAPILJ is independently run by this collaboration of law students as a project of Community Partners–a non-profit incubator organization.
The goal of the journal is two-fold, to engage and inform law students, practitioners, and other active community members as well as to provide a forum for discussion and idea generation around social justice issues in Southern California.
The Journal’s first symposium, held at Loyola Law School in Fall 2008, was themed on Immigrants’ Rights. The inaugural issue includes four articles on this topic, including a conversation with anti-trafficking advocates Kathleen Kim and Charles Song, and a history of the transformation of the Los Angeles worker center movements. In addition to these themed articles are others on emancipation preparation for foster youth in California and the intersection of gay equality, religious liberty, and the first amendment.
Uniquely, the Journal also has a "Community Voices" section that includes letters to young public interest attorneys from esteemed practitioners as well as letters from clients of social justice advocates. All of the articles are available online at the newly launched website.
On October 23, 2009 the Journal hosted its second symposium, at UCLA Law, on “Recovery and Reform: The State Budget, the Federal Stimulus, and How Los Angeles Public Interest Lawyers Can Lead the Movement For Change."
