Liberty Under Law

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A podcast of the Robert H. Jackson Center that explores contemporary issues of equality, fairness, and justice with a Jacksonian lens through in-depth conversations with experts, academics, innovators, and those doing the boots-on-the-ground work. Liberty under Law also addresses important historic events in the life and legacy of Robert H. Jackson, U.S. Supreme Court Justice and Chief U.S. Prosecutor at Nuremberg. Hosted by Kristan McMahon, Jackson Center President.

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Episodes

Episode 6: Anne Rolfes, Director of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade

Anne Rolfes , Director of the Louisiana Bucket Brigade , began her career in Nigeria, collaborating with local communities to address oil companies’ destruction of the Niger Delta. She returned to Louisiana in 2000 and founded the Louisiana Bucket Brigade to end the petrochemical industry’s destruction of her home state. The organization has prioritized media as a tool to amplify the voices of the leaders along Cancer Alley and has created cutting-edge tools to document and expose the industry’s...

May 26, 2021•45 min•Season 1Ep. 6

Episode 5: National Environmental Justice Advisory Council Panel

Kristan sat down with members of the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council (NEJAC) to discuss their work on environmental issues in the U.S. and around the globe. We welcomed Sylvia Orduño and Michael Tilchin, Chair and Vice-Chair of NEJAC, and Jan Marie Fritz, Ph.D and Steering Committee member for NEJAC.

May 19, 2021•1 hr 16 min•Season 1Ep. 5

Episode 4: Wendy Doyle, United WE

Wendy Doyle, President and CEO of United WE joins Kristan to discuss pay equity, paid family leave, child care, and encouraging the civic engagement of women.

May 12, 2021•56 min•Season 1Ep. 4

Episode 3: Panel with Equality Now

Equality Now is an organization "that uses the power of the law to dismantle deeply rooted discrimination and inequality and build a just world for women and girls." Antonia Kirkland, Global Lead, Legal Equality and Access to Justice, Tsitsi Matekaire, Global Lead, End Sex Trafficking, and Flavia Mwangovya, Global Lead, End Harmful Practices, joined Kristan for a discussion on a variety of issues impacting women and girls, including legal inequality, sex trafficking, sexual violence & other ...

May 05, 2021•59 min•Season 1Ep. 3

Episode 2: Eva Paterson, President & Co-Founder, Equal Justice Society

Eva Jefferson Paterson has campaigned for civil rights with passion, courage and tenacity for more than four decades. Paterson is the President and a co-founder of the Equal Justice Society, a legal organization transforming the nation’s consciousness on race through law, social science, and the arts. Prior to taking the helm of the Equal Justice Society in 2003, Paterson worked at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights for twenty-six years, thirteen of them as Executive Director. Paterson led ...

Apr 28, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Season 1Ep. 2

Episode 1: Juan Thomas, Vice Chair of the American Bar Association Civil Rights & Social Justice Section

Our first episode features Juan R. Thomas, the Vice-Chair of the American Bar Association Civil Rights & Social Justice Section Juan is Of Counsel at Quintairos, Prieto, Wood & Boyer, P.A., the founder and principal of The Thomas Law Group, a member of the Council of the American Bar Association’s Section for State & Local Government, and the General Counsel for the Morehouse College National Alumni Association. Juan and Kristan discussed the equity gap through a race-based lens. The...

Apr 15, 2021•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 1

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