Social Justice Links

Links to third-party Web sites are provided solely as a convenience and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Seattle Journal of Social Justice or Seattle University School of Law.

• Access to Justice Institute: The Access to Justice Institute serves as the hub for students committed to social justice and aims to empower all students toward a lifetime in the service of justice.
• Enemy Combatants: The Supreme Court rejected the argument that the executive branch has the last word on imposing open-ended detention on U.S. citizens and noncitizens alike. The link contains the full article from the New York Times; a free registration is required.
• Environmental Law Society: The primary goal of the Environmental Law Society (ELS) is to connect with the professional community in Seattle and provide a forum where students can meet others with similar interests. ELS brings speakers on campus for informal as well as formal forums, and publishes a newsletter in the fall and in the spring. In addition, ELS has activities outside the Law School that give students and professionals a chance to interact in a more relaxed atmosphere.
• Labor and Employment Law Association: LELA is a great resource for students interested in labor and employment law. The organization has guest speakers, volunteer opportunities at local conferences, job postings, and more. For additional information, please visit the LELA Web site.
• Public Interest Law Foundation: The Public Interest Law Foundation is a law student organization committed to increasing awareness of students, faculty, alumni, and administrators to the rewards, challenges, opportunities, and needs in public interest law. PILF recognizes the responsibility that members of the legal profession have in working to serve severely underrepresented legal needs. PILF is one of the most active groups in the law school community and engages in a number of projects, including the Summer Grant Program and the Loan Repayment Assistance Program.

Northwest Social Justice Web Sites

• Community Alliance for Global Justice: The Community Alliance for Global Justice is an alliance of individuals and organizations working in the region for the transformation of the global economy.
• Hate Free Zone: The Hate Free Zone Campaign's mission is to uphold the fundamental principals of democracy and justice by supporting and mobilizing targeted immigrant communities and allies to advocate for equality, dignity and respect.
• Northwest Justice Project: Information on landlord/tenant, small claims court, domestic violence, etc.
• Seattle Independent Media Center: A collective of independent media organizations and journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues in Seattle and worldwide.
• Statewide Poverty Action Network: Because no one in America should be poor, we take action to eliminate the root causes of poverty by informing the public debate, organizing communities, influencing public policy and fostering dignity.
• The Tenant's Unions: Landlord/Tenant information.

National and International Social Justice Web Sites

• American Civil Liberties Union: Information on every topic imaginable!
• Amnesty International: Amnesty International is a worldwide campaigning movement that works to promote internationally recognized human rights.
• The Atlantic: A bi-monthly international magazine.
• The Brennan Center: Brennan Center for Justice at NYU of Law.
• Center for Civil-Military Relations: Part of the Monterey Navy Graduate Program.
• Center for Economic and Social Justice: Offers capital homesteading ideas and strategies for structural reform of economies, and value-based management concepts for building organizational cultures of ownership, servant leadership, and justice.
• Center of Excellence for Disaster Management and Human Assistance: Resource for post-conflict peace studies.
• The Center for Law and Social Policy: Seeks to ensure access to our civil justice.
• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is a nonpartisan research organization and policy institute that conducts research and analysis on a range of government policies and programs, with an emphasis on those affecting low and moderate income people.
• Common Dreams: Breaking news and views for the progressive community.
• Democracy.net: Enter your zip code to find out about all of the issues and propositions in your area.
• ECA watch: International NGO campaign on Export Credit Agencies.
• Equal Justice Works: Dedicated to surmounting barriers to equal justice.
• Freedom, Democide, War: The purpose of this Web site is to make as widely available as possible the theories, work, results, and data that empirically and historically, quantitatively and qualitatively, support conclusions about freedom.
• Hawaii Research Center for Future Studies: Purpose is to encourage and promote the research, development, and use of futures studies--theories, methods, and designs. It is also to maintain a database of studies, individuals, and groups concerned with futures in Hawaii, the U.S., and globally.
• Human Rights Library: University of Minnesota Human Rights Library; more than 6500 documents and links.
• Human Rights Watch: This organization works towards the protection of human rights worldwide.
• The Hunger Site: Find out more about hunger worldwide and with just one click make a food donation.
• Inequality.org: News, information, and facts about inequality in America.
• International Federation for Human Rights: Purpose is to advance the implementation of all the rights defined by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the other international instruments protecting human rights.
• International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War: IPPNW is a non-partisan, global federation of national medical organizations in more than 60 countries dedicated to research, education, and advocacy relevant to the prevention of nuclear war.
• Program on Nonviolent Sanctions and Cultural Survival: Studies situations of conflict in order to better understand their nature and the capabilities of nonviolent actions in support of human rights and civil liberties.
• ReliefWeb: Serving the information needs of the humanitarian relief community.
• Street Children: Information about the lives of street children around the world.
• National Center for Law and Economic Justice: The National Center for Law and Economic Justice works with and on behalf of low-income people to ensure that adequate income support—public funding provided on the basis of need—is available whenever, and to the extent necessary, to meet basic needs and foster healthy human and family development.