Social Movements & the Law

Lawyers for a group of immigrants facing deportation from the United States urged the Supreme Court on Wednesday to leave in place an order by a federal judge in Massachusetts […]

We know that the need for reliable internet access, digital skills training, and wi-fi-enabled technology persists. The DEA programs would have brought capacity-building resources to communities all over the United States; these devastating cancellations will hinder our progress toward closing the digital divide and ensuring that all Americans can thrive.

When Stephanie Russo Carroll, a citizen of the Native Village of Kluti-Kaah in Alaska, set out to earn her doctorate in tribal health 15 years ago, she focused her research on tribal cultural and health programs within six tribes. She needed vital statistics data, such as birth and death rates, for each of them. But […]

Native students at University of Arizona are worried after their cultural group leader was fired and replaced with someone they don't trust.

The latest edition of The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation is hot off the presses.  Although this 22nd edition retains the same basic approach to legal citation, there are some notable changes, including one that …

pspanNative Americans (American Indians and Alaska Natives) have a long tradition of service in the U.S. military, dating back to the Revolutionary War. In

In a 6-3 decision on Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Tennessee’s ban on puberty blockers and hormone therapy for transgender youth, paving the way for other bans on trans healthcare to remain in effect in 24 other states. According to the ACLU, over 100,000 transgender people under the age of 18 now live in a state with a ban on their healthcare. “This is a fight that extends back 100 years, and we will keep fighting for 100 more years,” says Chase Strangio, the first openly trangender attorney to make oral arguments before the Supreme Court and the co-director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s LGBTQ & HIV Project.

President Donald Trump is looking to reopen Alcatraz Island, which once housed 19 Hopi men who didn’t want their children going to Indian boarding schools.

Advocates providing information and support outside immigration court, a report that ICE impersonated Tucson Electric Power workers, and how divided are we, ...

For decades, the US has militarized its southern border. Now, enter the second Trump administration.

Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren says Donald Trump's push to revitalize coal could bring jobs, revenue and energy security.

Following his resignation in the wake of criticism for his social media posts, a former law professor discusses "cancel culture" and his proposed solutions to perceived "radicalism" in American higher education.;"A high-profile law professor who endured cancel culture firsthand discusses radicalism in American law schools"-- Provided by publisher.

In Banned, readers are taken on a journey through the intense racial politics surrounding the banning of Mexican American Studies in Tucson, Arizona. This book details the state-sponsored racism that led to the elimination of this highly successful program, and the grassroots and legal resistance that followed. Through extensive research and firsthand narratives, readers will gain a deep understanding of the controversy surrounding this historic case. The legal challenge successfully overturned the Arizona law and became a central symbol in the modern-day Ethnic Studies renaissance. This work is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the power of community activism, the importance of fighting for educational equity, and why the example of Tucson created an alternative blueprint for how we can challenge states that are currently banning critical race theory.

"A legal commentator and former litigator's argument for repealing ten laws he believes are making life worse for Americans"-- Provided by publisher.

Formal letter from all Native organizations reframes cultural center closures as constitutional matter involving tribal sovereignty

Customs and Border Protection has swabbed the DNA of migrant children as young as 4, whose genetic data is uploaded to an FBI-run database that can track them if they commit crimes in the future.

Immigration law expert Leon Fresco, a partner at Holland & Knight, discusses the latest immigration issues including the Trump administration’s emergency appeal to the Supreme Court. Alex Wolf, Bloomberg Law correspondent, discusses the path ahead for J&J after the failure of its third bankuptcy attempt. June Grasso hosts.

Ask Alex Hansen from the Rocky Mountain Veterans Advocacy Project the best way to connect with a veteran in need, and she talks about food.

A project that tracks removed, modified, and impacted federal government information & resources

Guide to information resources by and about the federal government.

The home of the U.S. Government's open data

At the Harvard Law School Library, we have 39 early manuscript copies of Magna Carta, and now we also have over 300,000 public datasets published by the United States federal government. In February, our Library Innovation Lab launched the Data.gov Archive, a 17-terabyte archive of every dataset published on data.gov by the U.S. federal government. The archive […]

There are many individuals, organizations, and community-based efforts to capture and preserve data in early 2025. Below are the efforts we are aware of and their collecting scopes. This list was developed from the original Data Rescue Google Doc. If you would like to add your efforts, please email us

Ofelia Zepeda is a renowned poet and linguist, and one of the world’s foremost experts on the Tohono O’odham language.

The bills would have applied the state's obscenity laws to local libraries and allow counties and cities to terminate library board members.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on May 23 reversed a district court’s preliminary injunction and dismissed free speech claims in Little v. Llano County, a Texas case challenging the removal of 17 books from a public library.

Alt Text: White words on blue background stating “Rather than succumbing to helplessness, the response is to do something, take a step, find your work, and commit to it.” Allison Jennin…

A simple declaration can open up space for community and pathways for action.