Solidarity by Legal Design with Hallie Jay Pope
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Imagine a world where lawyers work hand-in-hand with people who’ve been left out and let down by the legal system. Solidarity in legal design is not about tinkering with the legal system; it's about redesigning the entire legal system to be fairer and more inclusive.
Instead of advocating for the marginalized, lawyers share their power to educate and give agency to people who cannot access justice. Why can’t people change the system themselves? Does it have to be lawyers?
Hallie Jay Pope from the New Jersey Legal Design Lab joined me this week to discuss solidarity by legal design. We talked about access to justice and her work with their Housing Justice and Legal Design Clinic. The Clinic has implemented innovative approaches to address housing inequity with a legal design framework.
The Clinic fosters solidarity and collective action by working closely with community members, organizers, and local authorities. This collaborative spirit is crucial for creating sustainable and impactful legal interventions and ultimately creating systemic change by addressing the root causes of housing injustice—the legal system being one.
Hallie Jay’s work intimidates some lawyers because solidarity means standing beside the disenfranchised rather than advocating for them. Lawyers are diluting their power, and that takes some getting used to. But when Hallie Jay talked about the community co-design committee and legal literacy work the Lab is doing with people in New Jersey, it gave me goosebumps. Word is getting out. This is how we’re reimagining justice and building a fairer world, one step at a time.
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Listen in if you want to break down the institutional structures that exclude people from justice. ?? You’ll learn how to pull them apart and design systems that work - for everyone.
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Do you think it’s okay that certain people can access the law while millions of?people?can’t?