CCGP: Founder’s Day Celebration and Annual Meeting
Date
June 22, 2022 @ 12:00 pm
Venue
Philadelphia, PA
Event Details
Register now and don’t miss one of the most popular events hosted by the Cornell Club of Greater Philadelphia! Join us online for the Club’s annual Founder’s Day Program!
We are excited to be joined by Prof. Carlton Williams, Assistant Clinical Professor of Law. The title of his talk is Movement Lawyering: How Cornell is supporting the fight for social justice. Prof. Carlton Williams will join us for a conversation about the work the Law School’s Movement Lawyering Clinic (faculty and students) is doing to provide legal support for movements, organizations, and organizers working towards progress in social justice causes such as women’s liberation, Black liberation, Indigenous rights, immigrants’ and LGBTQ rights, and more.
As noted above, the Cornell Club will hold a short business meeting during which time we will recognize the past fiscal year’s Board of Directors, and we will vote for the upcoming 2022-23 Board of Directors. This event is for alumni, friends and family, and serves as a great way for you to meet the Board Members and learn more about the Cornell Club!
Event Details
Date: Wednesday, June 22, 2022
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 p.m. ET
12:00 – 12:10 p.m. CCGP Annual Meeting
12:10 – 1:00 p.m. Faculty speaker and audience Q&A
Location: Online
Cost: No charge
This event is sponsored by Cornell’s Law School and the Alumni Affairs and Development Office in the Northeast Corridor.
About the Speaker
Carlton Williams is a movement lawyer and organizer dedicated to building and supporting liberation struggles. Mr. Williams has practiced criminal and civil rights law in Massachusetts for many years. He began his legal career as a criminal attorney with the Roxbury Defenders and later served as a racial justice attorney with a civil liberties non-profit. Mr. Williams has been an advocate on issues advocate on issues of war, immigrant rights, LGBTQ rights, and Black and Palestinian liberation. He is a member of the National Lawyers Guild and has served as the chair of its Massachusetts board of directors. He was part of the legal defense for the Occupy Boston movement, providing legal, bail, and court support and training to the thousands of participant-organizers. In 2015, he served on the working group that organized the inaugural Law for Black Lives convening and was a featured speaker in its RadTalks event. Mr. Williams was a Givelber Distinguished Lecturer on Public Interest Law at Northeastern University School of Law, teaching on social justice movements and the law. More recently he served as the executive director of the Water Protector Legal Collective, defending and supporting Indigenous environmental justice and sovereignty. Mr. Williams is a graduate of the University of Rhode Island and the University of Wisconsin Law School. He is currently Assistant Clinical Professor of Law at Cornell University School of Law.
