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Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California (AJSOCAL) formerly known as Asian Americans Advancing Justice Los Angeles (Advancing Justice LA), is a non-profit legal aid and civil rights organization dedicated to advocacy, providing legal services and education and building coalitions on behalf of the Asian Americans, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (NHPI) communities. [1]
Founded in 1972, the Asian Law Caucus (ALC) is the United States' first legal aid and civil rights organization serving low-income Asian-Pacific American communities. [2] The ALC focuses housing rights, immigration and immigrant rights, [3] labor and employment issues, student advocacy (ASPIRE), [4] civil rights and hate violence, [5] national security [6] and criminal reform.
Charles Harder, J.D. 1996, lawyer at the law firm Harder LLP; Irving A. Kanarek, aerospace engineer and defense attorney for Charles Manson; Melanie Lomax, Civil Rights lawyer and former head of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners; Edward L. Masry, plaintiff's lawyer portrayed in the movie Erin Brockovich
Rep. Jimmy Gomez, D-Calif., will introduce legislation to rename the Los Angeles U.S. Courthouse after the Latino family whose lawsuit Mendez v. Westminster paved the way for school desegregation.
The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles is considered to be one of Los Angeles' oldest organizations advocating for immigrant rights. In 1986, the creation of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles or CHIRLA, was funded by the Ford Foundation in efforts to help educate immigrants about the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.
The second perpetrator, who is suspected of stabbing the adult victim in his upper body, is a teenager "of above 15 years old", police said, meaning he is criminally liable under Finnish law.
Martti Antero Koskenniemi (born 18 March 1953) is a Finnish international lawyer and former diplomat. [1] Currently he is professor of International Law in the University of Helsinki and Director of the Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights, as well as Centennial Professor at the Law Department of the London School of Economics.
He taught at the Chicago-Kent College of Law from 1994 to 1997. [2] In 1998 he took a position at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles; in 2005, he was named by Loyola as the William H. Hannon Distinguished Professor of Law. He left Loyola to become a professor at the University of California, Irvine School of Law in July 2011. [1]