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The National Lawyers Guild is a human rights Bar Association in the United States for lawyers, legal workers, law students and jailhouse lawyers. Similar in some respects to the American Civil Liberties Union, it has stronger leftist political leanings. It was founded in 1936 as the first integrated bar association.
The NLG has received funding from the Open Society Institute, the John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the Ford Foundation.
The NLG constitution states that one of its purposes is to establish a social and political movement "to the end that human rights shall be more sacred than property interests."
Michael Avery, a law professor at Suffolk University Law School, is the current President of the National Lawyers Guild. President-Elect Marjorie Cohn, a law professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, will become President in October 2006.
External links
- Tamiment Library NLG Archive Administrative Files 1937-1969
- National Organization (National Office)
- Washington, D.C. Chapter
- Los Angeles Chapter
- San Francisco Chapter
- New York City Chapter
- Massachusetts Chapter
- Maryland Chapter
- Minnesota Chapter
- University of Wisconsin Chapter
- NLG National Immigration Project
- NLG Center for Democratic Communications
- Discover the Networks' Dossier on the National Lawyers Guild