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Jessica Jackson is an American human rights attorney [ 1] and Chief Advocacy Officer at REFORM Alliance. [ 2] She is also the co-founder of Dream Corps JUSTICE, a national bipartisan effort aimed at reducing America's incarceration rate. [ 3][ 2] She served as the youngest mayor of the city of Mill Valley. [ 2]
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in the U.S. state of New Jersey have the same legal rights as non-LGBT people. LGBT individuals in New Jersey enjoy strong protections from discrimination, and have had the same marriage rights as heterosexual people since October 21, 2013. Since the late 1960s, state-sanctioned ...
Jacqueline "Jacqui" McKenzie is a British human rights lawyer specialising in migration, asylum and refugee law. Her legal career encompasses practice in the areas of civil liberties, crime and immigration with solicitors Birnberg Peirce and Partners, and since 2010 running her own immigration consultancy, McKenzie Beute and Pope (MBP), having previously spent more than a decade in senior ...
Occupation (s) International attorney, author. Notable work. Lawless: A lawyer’s unrelenting fight for justice in a war zone. Kimberley Chongyon Motley is an American international human rights and civil rights lawyer. Motley was the first foreign attorney who litigated cases in Afghanistan. [ 1]
Occupation (s) Founder and Executive Director of The Lawfare Project. Notable work. The Making of A Martyr (2006 film) Lawfare: The War Against Free Speech (2011 book) Brooke Goldstein is a human rights attorney. She is the founder and Executive Director of The Lawfare Project. [ 1]
Human rights lawyer. Gissou Nia is a human rights lawyer and senior fellow at the Atlantic Council, where she serves as director of the Strategic Litigation Project, which focuses on accountability and prevention for human rights violations, terrorism, atrocities, and corruption . Nia began her career at The Hague, where she worked to prosecute ...
In criminal law, the right to counsel means a defendant has a legal right to have the assistance of counsel (i.e., lawyers) and, if the defendant cannot afford a lawyer, requires that the government appoint one or pay the defendant's legal expenses. The right to counsel is generally regarded as a constituent of the right to a fair trial.
The New Jersey Department of Law and Public Safety is a governmental agency in the U.S. state of New Jersey that focuses on protection of the lives and property of New Jersey residents and visitors. The department operates under the supervision of the New Jersey attorney general. The department is responsible for safeguarding "civil and ...