Through history, biography, case law, and documentary film, this course will introduce law students to “Movement lawyering” in the U.S. from the 1960s to the present day. Throughout the 20th and 21st centuries law students, lawyers, judges and even some progressively-minded prosecutors made the explicit and determined decision to offer their legal expertise to various movement causes and activists. These lawyers also sought to ensure that even unknown poor and marginalized citizens would have strong legal representation. Movement lawyers have included nationally known figures such as William Kunstler, Detroit attorneys such as Ernie Goodman and Kenneth Cockrel, judges such as Justin Ravitz, and prosecutors such as Chesa Bodin. Important legal organizations such as the National Lawyers Guild are also well-known hubs for movement lawyering. Movement lawyering particularly came of age in the 1960s and 1970s, but continues to be essential to present day struggles for justice, as well as to an increasing number of more conservative grassroots efforts to change law and society. The course will ask students to assess the strengths, weaknesses, and legal as well as personal challenges of choosing to be a movement lawyer both in the past and in the present day.