Dan Farbman on Abolitionism and Resistance Lawyering

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Luke talks with Dan Farbman about parallels between current events and America in the 1850s, the abolitionist movement and resistance lawyering, working within “the master’s house,” and protests in Los Angeles.

Dan teaches classes on constitutional law, local government law, movement lawyering, inequality, and legal realism at the Boston College Law School. His work includes “A Commons in the Master's House,” “Resistance Lawyering,” and “Outrage and Resistance: Abolitionist Lessons for the Present Crisis.”