These fights have been happening at CUNY for some time in July, there was a mass exodus of professors from their faculty union after the union passed its own resolution that criticized Israeli policies. “ trash academic freedom by seeking to bar opinions contrary to its own from CUNY and its groups,” the faculty said. “ directly complicit in the ongoing apartheid, genocide, and war crimes perpetrated by the State of Israel against the Palestinian people through its investments in and contracts with companies profiting off of Israeli war crimes,” the LSGA said in a statement.įaculty members didn’t take too kindly to this and released a statement of their own, saying that the LSGA was trying to “stifle pro-Israel opinion and demonize Jewish students.” The Law Student Government Association demanded that the school sever ties with Israel by ending student exchange programs and joining the Boycott Divest Sanctions movement. “As law students, we fear that Gibson Dunn’s strategic lawsuits against public participation (‘SLAPP’ suits) will deter aspiring lawyers from helping clients redress harm by corporations that could similarly demonize, attack, and coerce opposing counsel,” said Haley Czarnek, a student at the University of Alabama School of Law and member of LSCA.ĬUNY law students are butting heads with their faculty over an anti-Israeli resolution passed by the student government in early December. That call went unanswered and now the Law Students for Climate Accountability (LCSA) have implored law students across the country to refuse to work with Gibson Dunn. Last spring, 87 law student organizations from around the country called on the firm to commit to a higher standard with regards to its fossil fuel work. Gibson Dunn helped overturn the judgment, an award of $9.5 billion, and helped to prosecute Steven Donziger, a human rights attorney who worked for the Ecuadorian plaintiffs. Most notably, the firm spent 10 years defending Chevron in a lawsuit brought by Ecuadorian communities whose land was polluted by an oil spill. For what reason? Gibson Dunn gives new meaning to the term “heinous.” The LA-based law firm has spent years working in the interest of corporations that have a track record of human rights violations and environmental damage. Law students from around the country have organized a boycott of the law firm Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.
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