SCU BLSA

The Black Law Students Association invites you to our Road to Judgeship Panel on Monday, October 19th from 5:30-6:30pm! This is an opportunity to bring together experienced judges of color to speak about their personal experiences throughout their career and how it has guided them to become a judge. It's an amazing opportunity for students to hear the different paths each judge took to get where they are, and hear advice on how to navigate their legal career. We hope you co...me out and listen in on this amazing event! Thank you to our wonderful co-sponsors: Asian Pacific American Law Student Association, Filipino American Law Society, First Generation Law Student Association, the South Asian Law Student Association and Women & Law. Register with the link here: www.tinyurl.com/blsajudges We hope to see you all there!

Reminder to rsvp for TOMORROW’S implicit bias and microaggressions workshop, hosted by If/When/How, by 9am tomorrow! Y’all won’t want to miss what will be a phenomenal workshop! Link: https://forms.gle/oY5kF8Ax4GvsSeZM6

Hi everyone! BLSA invites you all to our event; Accessing the Vote: Suppression and Barriers in 2020. The event will be held this Friday, September 25, from 5-6pm and will discuss the persistence of racial inequality and discrimination in voting and the extent to which racism informs voter suppression efforts. We will also be discussing voting in times of COVID and the ways to best ensure our vote counts. The panelists will include; Adena Ishii: Past President of The League o...f Women Voters of Berkeley, Albany, and Emeryville, current liaison to the LWV California State Equity Task Force, and BLSA Board Member Jonathan Mehta Stein: Executive Director of California Common Cause Mitchell Brown: Voting Rights Counsel and Equal Justice Fellow from the Southern Coalition for Social Justice Dr. Deborah Turner: The current President for the League of Women Voters of the United States We would love to have you all attend and hear an important conversation from these amazing speakers! The Zoom link is: tinyurl.com/blsavotes

BLSA is co-sponsoring the International Law Students Association’s Mask Making Event this Sunday, September 20th at 3:00 pm PST. Let's come together and make as many masks as possible to distribute to the Bay Area’s most vulnerable communities. Materials will be distributed to those who are interested in participating so please sign up using the link in the email we sent if you need materials! Otherwise, you can source the materials at home. What you will need: cloth, ear straps, nose bridge, sewing thread, needle to sew. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to Lilas Abuelhawa ([email protected]). We hope to see you there!

Mark your calendars and register to join the SCU BLSA and ACLU NorCal SCU Law Club on September 2, 2020! What Would Defund Look Like? is a Zoom Expert Panel Event in which panelists will discuss the different forms of what defunding the police could look like. Panelists will discuss their take on police reform in the wake of nationwide protests demanding an end to discriminatory policing practices resulting in the disproportionate killing of Black people, accountability for violent police officers, and the shifting of funding from law enforcement to social services. Link to register: https://scu.zoom.us///tJ0ucOypqjwjH9zWTMnJvYeKhu9c-laTscAS

Happy Juneteenth from BLSA! Thank you for the continuous support and enjoy the holiday!

To the SCU Law Community, Attached you will find our response to the recent events surrounding the murders of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd. While these past few weeks have been particularly difficult for the Black community, we remain hopeful that Santa Clara Law will continue to show its support in the fight against systemic racism. Sincerely, ... BLSA Executive Board 2020-2021

Please join us this Friday April 3rd at 7 PM for a conversation about Mental Health ran by students! Zoom link on flyer.

Please join BLSA next Tuesday (2/18) for a Black History Month panel discussing implicit bias! Soul food will be provided. Charney room 101 at noon.

Introducing the Black Law Student Association Executive Board '19/'20 of Santa Clara Law

Click the link below to order a BLSA t-shirt! https://docs.google.com//1FAIpQLSd92PSWGGfGSw55zf/viewform

Today is the day! Come on out to Charney 103 at 5:30 to hear from a diverse panel of judges and have the chance to network with them following the panel! There will be a catered reception to follow.