Subscribe: Apple Podcast | Spotify | Stitcher Lawyers have historically played an essential role in expanding access to elections. While the 2018 elections ushered in a record number of women and people of color into public office at the local, state, and national levels, state legislatures also launched efforts to restrict voting access and rights. The barriers facing voters and candidates of color, and threats to the democratic process were highlighted again in 2020, as lawyers played a key role in both expanding access to voting and in efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results, despite the falsity of their claims. "John Lewis speaking at a meeting of American Society of Newspaper Editors, Statler Hilton Hotel, Washington, D.C." April 16th, 1964, Washington D.C, United States (@libraryofcongress) How are lawyers working to promote diverse electoral representation and ensure broad voting access? Are lawyers mere partisans or do they have a special role in advancing rule of law values in service of democracy? In this episode, the hosts meet with Amanda Litman (Run for Something) and Sam Spital (NAACP Legal Defense Fund) to delve into public service, the aftermath of the 2020 election, and the roles that lawyers play in the democratic process. Titled "Negro voting in Cardoza [i.e., Cardozo] High School in [Washington,] D.C.", November 3rd, 1964, Washington D.C, United States (@libraryofcongress) Episode Guests Credits Through the Gale is a production of the Columbia Law School Anti-Racism Grant Making Program in partnership with the Center for Constitutional Governance. Production Sound Clips Episode Hosts

In this episode, we examine how law schools have responded to calls to develop new curriculum and pedagogy that is critical, inclusive, and attentive to how race, power, and identity shape jurisprudence and the culture of law schools. Through conversations with Susan Sturm (George M. Jaffin Professor of Law and Social Responsibility), Kendall Thomas (Nash Professor of Law), and Professor Meera Deo (Southwestern Law School), the hosts explore the role of hiring practices, pedagogy and curriculum in law schools’ evolving anti-racism efforts. Pictured teaching: Kellis E. Parker, First Black Columbia Law Professor, 1972 Episode Guests Meera E. Deo, The Honorable Vaino Spencer Chair & Professor of Law Susan P. Sturm, George M. Jaffin Professor of Law and Social Responsibility Kendall Thomas, Nash Professor of Law Professor Susan Sturm with student Professors Kimberlé Crenshaw, Maeve Glass, Jamal Greene, Bernard Harcourt, and Kendall Thomas host panel discussion on constitutive role of slavery in American law. 30 October 2019. Photo by Bruce Gilbert J.D. Orientation Day 1; Class of 2024; 23 August 2021; students in a lecture hall classroom Pictured teaching: Kendall Thomas, the Nash Professor of Law; Director, Center for the Study of Law and Culture Credits Through the Gale is a production of the Columbia Law School Anti-Racism Grant Making Program in partnership with the Center for Constitutional Governance. Production Sound Clips Episode Hosts

Can “Big Law,” the segment of the legal industry that regularly provides assistance, representation and counsel to the nation’s largest and most powerful corporate and economic actors, be an effective force for racial equity in the nation?  When the pandemic and the racial uprisings of 2020 laid bare America's racial inequality, many big law firms pledged to be "anti-racist." Since then these firms have launched new "diversity and inclusion" efforts to address representation within their firms, and expanded their commitment to pro-bono and legal service. Many large firms have also joined the Law Firm Anti-Racism Alliance, collaborating to promote racial justice within the law. But as large corporate entities, big law firms exist primarily to service their clients. Are these legal entities which are intertwined with a highly stratified economy, capable of contributing to an anti-racist society? If so, what are the crucial steps? In the third installment of our podcast, Professor Scott Cummings (UCLA) and Debo Adegbile (WilmerHale) join the hosts to address the role of “Big Law” in shaping a multiracial democracy. Through the Gale is a production of the Columbia Law School in partnership with the Center for Constitutional Governance. Episode Guests Credits Through the Gale is a production of the Columbia Law School Anti-Racism Grant Making Program in partnership with the Center for Constitutional Governance. Production Written and produced by Alexis Banks, Sneha Pandya, and Marica L. Wright. Edited and recorded by Devan Kortan and Jake Rosati Special thanks to Michelle Wilson, Julie Godsoe, Cary Midland, and Kara Van Woerden. Sound Clips Instrumentals courtesy of Free Music Archive Episode Hosts

Traditionally, civil rights lawyers have focused on establishing anti-discrimination rights in courts. But today, the Movement for Black Lives, abolitionist, and other social movements de-center courts and instead emphasize the need to to build power to advance transformative social change. Can these approaches to social change be reconciled? Through conversation with Ashok Chandran (NAACP LDF), Theodore Shaw (UNC Center for Civil Rights), and Alexis J. Hoag (Brooklyn Law School), co-hosts Olatunde Johnson and Andre Esteves delve into the history of civil rights lawyering, and examine how it is responding to current social movements. Jack Greenberg '48, Hon. Constance Baker Motley '46, and Thurgood Marshall Episode Guests Credits Through the Gale is a production of the Columbia Law School Anti-Racism Grant Making Program in partnership with the Center for Constitutional Governance. Production Sound Clips Episode Hosts

Join the hosts of Through the Gale as they detail the background and significance of podcast, and give listeners a preview of what's to come. Credits Through the Gale is a production of the Columbia Law School Anti-Racism Grant Making Program in partnership with the Center for Constitutional Governance. Production Written and produced by Dante Violette, Sneha Pandya, Marica L. Wright, and Olatunde Johnson Edited and recorded by Devan Kortan and Jake Rosati Special thanks to Michelle Wilson, Julie Godsoe, Cary Midland, and Kara Van Woerden. Sound Clips Ella’s Song, Composed by Bernice Johnson Reagon, Sung by Sweet Honey in the Rock Instrumentals courtesy of Free Music Archive Episode Hosts

Subscribe: Apple Podcast | Spotify | Stitcher Go "Through the Gale" with us as we explore the role of lawyers in the struggle for multiracial democracy, a question made more urgent by the racial reckonings of 2020, the inequities laid bare by the Covid-19 pandemic, the 2020 election, and the January 6th insurrection. Columbia Law Students are joined by advocates, teachers, and experts to better understand the role of lawyers in building a racially equitable society. Through the Gale was produced by a group of faculty, staff, and students at Columbia Law School, and funded by the Columbia Law School Anti-Racism Grant Program and the Center for Constitutional Governance.