Abolition & Movement Lawyering

Prof. Aisha Cornelius Edwards and I co-created and co-taught LAW156: Abolition & Movement Lawyering at Loyola University of Chicago Law for two semesters. We centered Black feminist abolitionist texts in our syllabus, and opened up part of the syllabus for student choice of readings. I’m linking both syllabi from Spring 2022, and Spring 2023. While they are mostly the same, the Spring 2023 syllabus is a bit lighter in reading, with different course assignments.

Abolition 101 - A class with and for community

This is a community abolition class that I created as part of my Soros Justice Fellowship work. The inspiration for this class came from multiple conversations with community members who expressed the need for a space to learn about, discuss, and debate abolitionists text and theory. I designed the course to have no homework, with all reading done within class sessions. The class is designed to meet for 1.5 hours a week, for 10 weeks. The class can be done both in in-person and an online. Everything you need is in this zine - and is free for you to use and change as needed.

As this class was created as part of my Soros Justice Fellowship work, I have to also mention this: Research for this class and zine was supported in part by the Soros Justice Fellowship, which is funded and administered by the Open Society Institute (OSI). The opinions expressed herein are the author’s own and do not necessarily express the views of OSI.