Pace Access to Justice Workshop: Voting, Democracy, and the Law
Rachael Silva is Assistant Dean for External Affairs at Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University.
The Public Interest Law Center”™s Access to Justice Project at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University presents the 2nd Annual Pace Access to Justice Workshop: Voting, Democracy, and the Law on March 29 at 12:15 ”“ 1:45 pm.
The Pace Access to Justice Workshop will bring together leading voting rights lawyers, advocates, and the Haub Law community to discuss the important issues of voting access, elections, and democracy.
The in-person event will be held at Elisabeth Haub School of Law, Tudor Room, 78 N. Broadway, White Plains, NY. The panel discussion will also be available via Zoom. (Click here to participate via Zoom.)
The workshop will feature a panel discussion with voting rights experts from the ACLU, New York Civil Liberties Union, VoteEarlyNY, and Generation Vote, with a special video message from March For Our Lives Founder and Activist David Hogg followed by an interactive community discussion about our institutional role in voting access and engagement.
The panelists are:
- Jarret Berg, Co-Founder, VoteEarlyNY
- Brianna Cea, Founder and Executive Director, Generation Vote
- Perry Grossman, Supervising Attorney, New York Civil Liberties Union(Voting rights, Election law litigation, Advocacy)
- Sophia Lin Lakin, Interim Co-Director, ACLU Voting Rights Project
The panel moderator is Elyse Diamond, Director of the Public Interest Law Center (PILC) and an Adjunct Professor of Law at Pace University”™s Elisabeth Haub School of Law. As PILC”™s Director, Elyse leads the law school”™s Access to Justice Project (Pace A2J), which includes a range of curricular and non-curricular initiatives, including coordinating the launch of the Legal Hand Call-In Center serving Westchester County and operated at Haub Law.
The event is co-sponsored by Haub Law’s Public Interest Law Scholarship Organization and the National Lawyers Guild. Lunch will be provided for in-person attendees.
Please register for the event here.
In March 2022, the inaugural Access to Justice workshop, “Spotlight on Housing,” brought together community leaders, legal services lawyers, advocates, and law school faculty, staff, alumni and students to engage in dialogue centering on the critical importance of housing access, the current housing crisis in New York, the status of “right to counsel” in eviction cases in Westchester, and public service careers in housing law. The March 2022 panelists included several well-known New York City and Westchester housing advocates and experts. Alumni and community members not on-campus were invited to join virtually.
The 2022 workshop provided a forum to discuss innovative ways the law school and its students and community partners can address the gaps in housing access in our community, including creating a pipeline of law graduates trained in housing work and other ideas Haub Law can build upon.