The Trajectory of Justice: The People’s Advocate

In the spring of 2012 Danny taught a course at UC Santa Cruz walking students through the cases he has litigated and the ethical questions behind them. Sara Nelson, his longtime colleague and co-founder of the Christic Institute, gives a guest lecture on the organizing behind the Silkwood case, and the final class turns to worldviews, the new paradigm and UFOs.

Each case has its own page with background and outcomes: the Pentagon Papers, the 1970s civil liberties cases, Karen Silkwood, Three Mile Island, Greensboro, the Sanctuary Movement and Avirgan v. Hull.

Lectures

1. Introduction: law school stories and the crises facing this generation (April 3, 2012)
2. The Black Panther cases and the Attica prison uprising (April 5, 2012)
3. Eisenstadt v. Baird (April 10, 2012)
4. Roe v. Wade (April 12, 2012)
5. The New Bedford riots and reporters’ confidential sources (April 17, 2012)
6. The Pentagon Papers case (April 19, 2012)
7. The Watergate burglary (April 24, 2012)
8. The Watergate hearings and the road back to the Kennedy assassination (April 26, 2012)
9. Sara Nelson on organizing around the Karen Silkwood case (May 1, 2012)
10. The Karen Silkwood investigation (May 3, 2012)
11. The Karen Silkwood trial (May 8, 2012)
12. The Silkwood appeals and Three Mile Island (May 10, 2012)
13. The Greensboro civil rights case (May 15, 2012)
14. Greensboro and the Mayor Eddie Carthan murder trial (May 17, 2012)
15. The American Sanctuary Movement (May 22, 2012)
16. Iran-Contra: the pre-filing investigation (May 24, 2012)
17. Iran-Contra: discovery and the post-filing investigation (May 29, 2012)
18. Iran-Contra: the appeals and the special prosecutor (May 31, 2012)
19. The big picture: why this work matters and what we do now (June 5, 2012)
20. Final class: worldviews, the new paradigm and UFOs (June 7, 2012)

Related

• Danny’s legal legacy
• His memoir, The People’s Advocate
• All lectures