National Lawyers Guild
Location: New York, New York, United States
Duration: 1937-current (Africa activity 1970s-early 1990s)
The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) was founded in 1937 as an association of progressive lawyers and jurists who believed that lawyers had a major role to play in reconstructing legal values by emphasizing human rights over property rights. The NLG headquarters is in New York but it has chapters in many cities. In the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s it...
The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) was founded in 1937 as an association of progressive lawyers and jurists who believed that lawyers had a major role to play in reconstructing legal values by emphasizing human rights over property rights. The NLG headquarters is in New York but it has chapters in many cities. In the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s it supported the struggle against apartheid in South Africa.
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