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Additional Resources
Listen In: Conversations on PLS
❋ The Right to Redemption with Professor Rachel López and Kempis “Ghani” Songster
Below the Line, Northwestern University Law Review
October 7, 2021
In this episode, activist Kempis “Ghani” Songster and Professor Rachel López discuss their article, written with co-author Terrell “Rell” Carter, Redeeming Justice.
❋ Redeeming Justice
Pursuing Justice, Innocence Project of Florida
October 10, 2022
Professor Rachel López discuss her article, Redeeming Justice, co-authored by Kempis “Ghani” Songster and Terrell “Rell” Carter.
❋ The Right to Redemption
Our WellSpring
October 8, 2025
In this podcast episode, Rachel López discusses reimagining legal scholarship and justice through a human rights lens. The conversation explores PLS, the right to redemption, and more inclusive approaches to legal scholarship.
Webinars
PLS in Practice
2025 Friel-Scanlan Lecture
October 22, 2026
NYU Journal of International Law and Politics Spring Symposium
February 13, 2026
University of Virginia Law Review Sixth Annual Symposium on “Participatory Law Scholarship: A Seat at the (Legal) Table
Harvard’s Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights
October 7, 2021
This symposium brought together participatory law scholars and experiential authors to explore the emerging movement of PLS. Through paper presentations, panels, and a keynote address, participants examined how collaboration between legal scholars and people with lived experiences can challenge traditional approaches to knowledge production and contribute to legal and social change.
This webinar brings together Terrell “Rell” Carter, Rachel E. López, Kempis “Ghani” Songster, and Monica BEll to discuss Participatory Law Scholarship.
This webinar explores Redeeming Justice, an article that draws on the lived experiences of co-authors sentence to life without parole more than three decades ago, alongside human rights law, to argue for a legal right to redemption.
Clinical Legal Education Association (CLEA)
December 8, 2022
This lecture explores how lived experience can serve as a source of legal knowledge, rather than simply as data or narrative. Tracing the development of PLS, it examines how the approach challenges traditional boundaries between legal expertise and experiential knowledge and asks whose knowledge is valued in shaping the law.
The symposium examined how law structures, legitimates, and contests state violence across domains including surveillance, detention and deportation, racialized governance, and international conflict. Through a series of interdisciplinary panels and moderated dialogues, the symposium explored the legal architectures that shape accountability, responsibility, and restraint in contexts of coercion and harm.
This webinar is part of CLEA’s Teaching Justice Webinar Series. This webinar is taught by Rachel E. López, Kempis “Ghani” Songster, and Terrell “Rell” Carter
The Law and Political Economy (LPE) Project at Yale Law School
March 26, 2024