The Equal Justice Society announced today that Director of Law and Policy Reggie Shuford would be leaving to join the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania as its new Executive Director. “We can’t be more proud of Reggie as he moves on to lead a state chapter of the ACLU, one of our nation’s most [...]
The following op-ed by EJS President, Eva Paterson, and Director of Law and Policy, Reggie Shuford, appeared yesterday in New America Media. A recent decision handed down by the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals raises this important question: Can victims of contemporary forms of discrimination and disparity find justice in our courts? The court [...]
The following review by EJS Director of Law and Policy Reggie Shuford appears in the Dec. 2010 issue of California Lawyer magazine. The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness reviewed by Reginald T. Shuford In the aftermath of the jury verdict that found BART police officer Johannes Mehserle guilty of no more [...]
The Equal Justice Society is now accepting applications for its 2011-2012 Judge Constance Baker Motley Civil Rights Fellowship, named after the first African-American woman to serve on the federal bench. Applicants for the one-year, paid fellowship should be recent law school graduates with up to five years of work experience after law school. Applications must [...]
After an extensive search process, the Equal Justice Society today announced that we’ve hired Reggie Shuford as our new Director of Law and Policy. He’ll be joining us in mid-May. EJS has long wanted to engage in the next level of overturning the Intent Doctrine. Finding just the right Director of Law and Policy was [...]