COVID RESPONSE

The coronavirus pandemic is illustrating just how broken our economic and legal systems are — and how urgent it is to fix them. In a public health emergency, we are only as healthy as those who are most vulnerable, least economically secure, and least able to access social and legal services.

That’s why the People’s Parity Project is organizing law students to help our trusted partners respond to some of the most urgent legal needs in this unprecedented moment.

Want to Pitch In?

Our top priority is everybody’s safety and well-being — physical and mental. If you’re a student who is able and interested in contributing (remotely, of course) to research and writing needs, we and others would love to have your help.

What We’re Working On

UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE

Pressuring states to expand UI to excluded workers, especially misclassified independent contractors.

STIMULUS

Researching the requirements for direct cash payments proposed by Congress and ensuring that immigrant families are included.

PAID SICK LEAVE

Amplifying research on paid sick and family leave, like which major employers still aren’t offering paid sick leave.

CORPORATE IMMUNITY

Fighting corporate immunity that would give employers a free pass to break safety and health laws

The latest

In the News: Fighting Corporate Immunity from Coast to Coast

In the News: Fighting Corporate Immunity from Coast to Coast

This summer, law students around the country have been fighting our own schools' efforts to lobby for corporate immunity. Universities, like many other employers, are lobbying Congress to pass sweeping liability waivers that would make businesses and universities...

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Cancel Student Debt in the Next Stimulus Package

Cancel Student Debt in the Next Stimulus Package

Student debt is limiting possibilities for entire generations. We all lose out when people are penalized for years—even decades—for seeking an education. That's why we joined 100 other civil rights and community groups to urge congressional leadership to include...

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Apply for the Systemic Lawyering Corps

Apply for the Systemic Lawyering Corps

Would you like to devote a portion of your summer to thinking critically and creatively about the role that lawyers can play in dismantling and re-imagining unjust systems and helping to repair longstanding injustices? The Systemic Lawyering Corps provides current law...

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Organize Against Corporate Immunity

Organize Against Corporate Immunity

Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and the Senate GOP are trying to make corporations that violate workers' and consumers' rights immune from lawsuits—and it's up to us to stop them. Senate Republicans are demanding sweeping corporate “liability...

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