Program areas at LCCRUL
Voting Rights project: the voting Rights project works through coordinated and integrated programs of litigation, voter protection, advocacy, and education to protect the right to vote for communities of color who are most likely to be disenfranchised. The projects signature voter protection effort is the non-partisan election protection coalition, a national membership coaltion boasting well over 300 organizational members. The Lawyers' Committee serves as convener of the coalition and coordinates infrastructure, training and deployment of volunteer attorneys for the 866-our-vote hotline that provides expert assistance to voters nationwide.
Fair housing and community development project: the fair housing & community development project fights housing discrimination by working to enforce the federal fair housing act and promote greater opportunity for lowincome people of color. Through impact litigation, policy advocacy, consulting services, and support for housing justice organizations, the fhcd project works to ensure equitable access to crucial resources and meaningful housing choices for black communities.
Public education and general legal: the general legal department coordinates the legal work of the Lawyers' Committee, including attorneys, court cases, and pro bono activities. The Lawyers' Committee also leverages public education and national visibility to inform public discourse and to educate and inform the public and policy makers about our critical work and relevant Civil Rights issues.
Educational opportunities project:the educational opportunities project works to ensure that all students receive equal educational opportunities in public schools and institutions of higher education. The project uses litigation and policy tools to promote higher education access, racially inclusive learning environments, and k-12 educational equity. It also combats exploitation of students by for-profit colleges.
Economic justice project:the economic justice project engages in impact litigation and legal advocacy to ensure that communities of color can access opportunities and meaningfully engage in the economy to lead dignified lives free from discrimination.
Capacity building
Criminal justice project:the criminal justice project challenges racial disparities within the criminal justice system and aims to ensure that black people ad other people of color enjoy safety from violence by the state and by white supremacists. Areas of focus include promoting police accountability and combatting the criminalization of poverty, and holding white supremacists accountable through a sub-unit known as the james byrd, jr. center to stip hate.
Public policy:the public policy project advocates for the effective advancement of Civil Rights Law at the state and federal level working with other organizations, executive branch officials, and legislators. The project's work focuses on racial justice issues addressed by the organizations; other unites, including voting Rights, educational opportunities, criminal justice, and economic justice.
Stop hate project
George n. lindsay and jerry shestack fellowships:the Lawyers' Committee annually sponsors the twoyear george n. lindsay Civil Rights fellowship, which provides an opportunity for recent Law school graduates to immerse themselves in Civil Rights legal practice by working with many of the nation's leading Civil Rights experts at the national office of the Lawyers' Committee in Washington, d.c. The fellows engage in substantive legal activities, including cocounseled litigation with prominent Law firms, legislative and public policy advocacy, and public education on important Civil Rights matters. The jerry shestack fellowship fosters the development of early career lawyers who have demonstrated the potential to carry on shestack's lifelong commitment to Civil Rights while supporting the Lawyers' Committee's high impact. Fellows are selected periodically in consultation with the shestack justice advisory Committee and engage in Civil Rights litigation of national significance, working alongside leaders of the Civil Rights bar at the Lawyers' Committee and in private practice for two years.
Nc regional office
Digital justice initiative: the digital justice initiative works at the intersection of racial justice, technology, and privacy. Unregulated artificial intelligence, predatory commercial data practices, discriminatory algorithms, invasions of privacy, disinformation, and online hate disproportionately target and harm communities of color, especially black americans, immigrants, women of color, and lgbtq people of color. The project works ot ensure that everyone can enjoy the equal the internet's goods and services without fear of discrimination.