Nancy Costello, the director of Michigan State University’s First Amendment Law Clinic, reached out to CT Visionary in December 2015 to give current MSU law students the opportunity to teach First Amendment workshops at Cass Tech. MSU Law students and professionals will teach First Amendment rights for eight weeks to selected classes from February through April.
The Michigan State University Law School’s Diversity Services office and the CT Visionary newspaper staff will also host a Black Lives Matter forum and workshops at Cass on April 8.
Diversity Services under the direction of Mary Ferguson with the assistance of third year law student Gabrielle Boyer plan to teach CT students the case law behind some of the more publicized police brutality cases like Trayvon Martin, Sandra Bland, Mike Brown, Tamir Rice and Eric Garner. The panel will consist of legal experts and members of the Black Lives Matter movement.
This is a unique opportunity for students to ask questions and learn the law in an up close and personal way. Thirty MSU law students from the Geoffrey Fieger Trial Practice Institute will then have lunch with the CT student body and be split into teams following the forum in the Grand Theater. They will teach selected classes more details about police brutality cases.
MSU Diversity Services also sponsored a chartered bus for CT juniors and seniors to visit and tour the MSU Law School and School of Communications in East Lansing on Feb. 23.