With the falling away of institutional support for the arts and rising threats to the safety net, mutual aid is more relevant than ever. Presented by Michael Haber, Director, Community Development & Movement Infrastructure Clinic, Brooklyn Law School.
This online training is free and open to the public!
Michael Haber (he/him) is an Assistant Professor of Law at Brooklyn Law School, where
he directs Brooklyn Law’s Community Development and Movement Infrastructure Clinic
(“CD-MIC”). The CD-MIC operates at the intersection of movement lawyering and traditional CED practice, representing social movement groups, collectives, and activist DIY spaces alongside movement-aligned community-based organizations, community land trusts, and cooperatives.
Mike’s academic writing focuses on the history of voluntary associations and the relationships between social movements, non-profit law, and the state. His most recent scholarship describes the role of the Johnson Administration in the historical development of the nonprofit industrial complex, presents nonprofit corporate structure options for democratic movement organizations, and theorizes what “transactional movement lawyering” could be. He is currently writing about chilling effects and how they relate to corporate “personhood.” He has also written plain-language legal guide for mutual aid groups, community fridges, and he is currently co-authoring a guide for movement groups navigating the current political moment. His writings can be found online at SSRN, Mutual Aid Disaster Relief, and Big Door Brigade. Mike was previously a Clinical Professor of Law at Hofstra Law School, where he led Hofstra’s Community & Economic Development Clinic and its Disaster Recovery Clinic. He is also a past Director of the Community & Economic Development Program at Build Up Justice NYC (formerly Brooklyn Legal Services Corp. A). He is a graduate of New College of Florida, Carnegie-Mellon University, and Fordham Law School.
The Sustainable Economies Law Center provides direct legal support to individuals and groups who are working to create new solutions for resilient local economies. The Resilient Communities Legal Cafe provides sliding-scale donation-based legal advice by appointment.
Vital Arts envisions a world in which groundbreaking arts and culture that are essential for the continued health and vitality of society at large are recognized and cultivated. We seek to bring this about by implementing projects to meet the needs of low income artists in the Bay Area.
Movement Law, the client-centered law practice of Hope Mohr (she/her), is dedicated to supporting artists, changemakers, and mission-driven organizations.
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