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sharonbrett.bsky.social
Associate Professor, University of Kansas Law School. Teaching civ pro/evidence/fed courts/social justice lawyering. Writing abt procedural and structural barriers to reform of govt institutions. Bio: https://law.ku.edu/people/sharon-brett
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All these attacks on large law firms will have trickle down effects to smaller regional firms, too, and will absolutely devastate local non-profits' ability to litigate on behalf of the people they serve. Many states have little to no civil rights bar. Local orgs have 2, maybe 3 attnys at most. 🧵

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

The legal profession is actually chock full of public-interest-minded people who have made career choices that helped others but harmed their own career prospects. I hope lawyers weighing their own next steps will look around and see that.

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

I posted on this a few days ago, and maybe I will write this all up in a longer form essay/post/something soon -- but this ICE policy is remarkably similar to policies currently in effect in police departments across the US. See: www.aclukansas.org/en/cases/pro...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

cc @yeargain.bsky.social

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

This is what a lack of due process does. It allows for assumptions to rule the day, without any opportunity for contestation.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I was a plaintiff-side litigator for a long time and whoooooo boy I would never even THINK of doing the thing the judge told me not to do in the time b/w the judge telling me not to do it and the formal order issuing. O/C would ask for harsh sanctions and the court would undoubtedly grant them.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Since it is in the news, a short 🧵on the use of tattoos to label people as "gang members." The tl/dr: state and local police forces do this routinely, and it results in people facing increased bail amounts (even for non-gang related crimes), more restrictive probation/parole conditions, and more.

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Happy to say that this is now forthcoming in B.Y.U. Law Review. I'll be editing the last section in the next few months to account for . . . errr. . . changes at the federal level since I wrote this in fall. Feedback always welcome. Thanks to everyone who provided encouragement/feedback.

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

This sounds familiar . . . **Screams in KS SCR 1611**

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Relevant to my recent paper, PD offices are now *backsliding* in what they report, from an already insufficient baseline. Awesome!

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

This is the central point of the seminar I teach - litigation is not and has never been a complete answer to repressive regimes. It’s a tool in the toolbox to be deployed strategically alongside other tactics.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

A really interesting project that’s currently under submission, for the journal editors out there.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments