What Resistance Looks Like: Law, Organizing, and Everyday Acts in the Immigrant Justice Movement (day 2 of 2, in-person only)
Friday, November 14, 2025 | 9:00 AM EST - 5:00 PM EST
This symposium brings together advocates, scholars, and organizers to explore the strategies and challenges shaping immigrant justice today. Through panels and a strategy session, participants will examine gender asylum and movement law approaches, the role of lawyering and organizing in uncertain times, narrative-shifting through media, state-level protections for immigrant communities, the limits and power of litigation, and efforts to challenge ICE. The event highlights how legal advocacy and grassroots organizing intersect to build resilience and drive systemic change.
9:00 Check-in and Breakfast
9:30-10:45 Movement Lawyering and Organizing in Risky Times
11:00-12:15 Shifting the Narrative: Media, Messaging, and the Immigrant Justice Movement
12:45-1:45 State-level Protections, Risks, and Challenges
2:00-3:15 The Limits and Power of Litigation
3:30-4:45 Challenging ICE
4:45-5:00 Concluding Remarks
Participants are not required to attend both days.
Co-sponsored by Rutgers Law School's Race and the Law Review, Center for Immigrant Justice, Child Advocacy Clinic, Institute for Professional Education, and the American Friends Service Committee.
9:00 Check-in and Breakfast
9:30-10:45 Movement Lawyering and Organizing in Risky Times
11:00-12:15 Shifting the Narrative: Media, Messaging, and the Immigrant Justice Movement
12:45-1:45 State-level Protections, Risks, and Challenges
2:00-3:15 The Limits and Power of Litigation
3:30-4:45 Challenging ICE
4:45-5:00 Concluding Remarks
Participants are not required to attend both days.
Co-sponsored by Rutgers Law School's Race and the Law Review, Center for Immigrant Justice, Child Advocacy Clinic, Institute for Professional Education, and the American Friends Service Committee.
FACULTY:
Download announcement for agenda and speakers.
LOCATION:
Rutgers Law School
Center for Law and Justice
123 Washington Street
Newark, NJ 07102
Center for Law and Justice
123 Washington Street
Newark, NJ 07102
CREDITS:
CLE: NJ: 5.0 | NY: 5.0 | PA: 4.0
SUBJECT AREAS:
Immigration and Naturalization
COST:
$100.00
