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Bryan Stevenson (born November 14, 1959) is an American lawyer, social justice activist, and law professor at New York University School of Law, and the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative.
Bryan Stevenson is an American lawyer, professor, author, and activist who works to bring legal representation to poor, juvenile, mentally ill, and minority prisoners in the South. He founded the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) to fight against the mass incarceration of these groups.
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption (2014) is a memoir by American attorney Bryan Stevenson that documents his career defending disadvantaged clients.
EJI challenges poverty and racial injustice, advocates for equal treatment in the criminal justice system, and creates hope for marginalized communities. Founded in 1989 by Bryan Stevenson, a widely acclaimed public interest lawyer and bestselling author of Just Mercy, EJI is a private, 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization that provides legal ...
Bryan Stevenson (born November 14, 1959) is an American lawyer, social justice activist, law professor at New York University School of Law, and the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative.
Bryan Stevenson is the founder and Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, a human rights organization in Montgomery, Alabama. Under his leadership, EJI has won major legal challenges eliminating excessive and unfair sentencing, exonerating innocent death row prisoners, confronting abuse of the incarcerated and the mentally ill, and ...
In 1989, a twenty-nine-year-old African-American civil-rights lawyer named Bryan Stevenson moved to Montgomery, Alabama, and founded an organization that became the Equal Justice Initiative. It...
Bryan Stevenson. Lawyer and nonprofit executive Bryan Stevenson was born on November 14, 1959 in Milton, Delaware to Alice Gertrude Golden Stevenson and Howard Carlton Stevenson, Sr. In 1977, Stevenson graduated from Cape Henlopen High School in Lewes, Delaware.
Bryan Stevenson (s.14. marraskuuta 1959, Milton, Delaware, Yhdysvallat [1]) on yhdysvaltalainen New Yorkin yliopiston professori, lakimies, kirjailija ja aktivisti, joka pyrkii ajamaan muun muuassa köyhien, mielisairaiden ja nuorten oikeuksia. [2]Stevenson valmistui vuonna 1985 Harvardin yliopistosta yleisen politiikan maisterin tutkinnolla ja oikeustieteen tutkinnolla. [2]
The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) was founded in 1989 in Montgomery, Alabama, by attorney Bryan Stevenson, who has served as the organization's executive director ever since. [1] Stevenson has been working on Alabama defense cases since 1989 for the Southern Center for Human Rights and was director of its center for Alabama operations.
Bryan Stevenson is a lawyer, social justice advocate, and law professor at New York University School of Law. Stevenson was born on November 14, 1959 in Milton, Delaware.
Public interest lawyer Bryan Stevenson lives in Alabama and is the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, which works to combat injustice in the U.S. legal system. The new movie, Just Mercy,...
Bryan Stevenson is a civil rights lawyer, who has dedicated his life to the pursuit of criminal justice reform, racial equality, and opposing the historical legacy of institutional racism in the United States.
Bryan A. Stevenson, né le 14 novembre 1959 à Milton au Delaware (États-Unis), est un avocat américain, fondateur et président de l' Equal Justice Initiative 1, une organisation privée américaine à but non lucratif basée à Montgomery (Alabama, États-Unis). Il est également enseignant à la New York University School of Law à New York 2.
In his Commencement address, Bryan Stevenson, noted civil rights lawyer and founder of the Alabama-based Equal Justice Initiative, gave a stirring account of the racial disparities in the nation’s justice system and its world-leading rate of incarceration, which today has put 2.3 million people in jail or prison.
The Legacy Museum is the latest manifestation of civil rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson’s decades-long work of getting America to confront the hard truths of its past.
Bryan Stevenson is the founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative. A widely acclaimed public interest lawyer who has dedicated his career to helping the poor, the incarcerated, and the condemned, he has won numerous awards, including the prestigious MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Prize and the ACLU’s National Medal of ...
Civil rights attorney Bryan Stevenson, who founded the Equal Justice Initiative, was one of four human rights defenders to win this year’s Right Livelihood Award on December 3.
This feature documentary focuses on Bryan Stevenson’s life and career—particularly his indictment of the U.S. criminal justice system for its role in codifying modern systemic racism—and tracks the intertwined histories of slavery, lynching, segregation, and mass incarceration.
Bryan Stevenson erhielt 2020 den in Deutschland sogenannten „Alternativen Nobelpeis“ für seinen Kampf gegen Rassismus in der amerikanischen Justiz. Stevenson sagte zu der Auszeichnung, sie verbinde die Menschen überall auf der Welt, die gegen Ungleichheit, Unterdrückung und Machtmissbrauch kämpften.
Bryan Stevenson (born 14 November 1959) is an American lawyer, social justice activist, founder/executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative, and a law professor at New York University School of Law.
Just Mercy is a 2019 American biographical legal drama film co-written and directed by Destin Daniel Cretton and starring Michael B. Jordan as Bryan Stevenson, Jamie Foxx as Walter McMillian, Rob Morgan, Tim Blake Nelson, Rafe Spall, and Brie Larson. It explores the work of young defense attorney Bryan Stevenson who represents poor people on ...