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Was great to be interviewed and share my thoughts on effective openings. foxnews.com/us/karen-read-…

This should be a moment for tremendous consciousness building. New Yorkers witnessed that we have an army in our midst, the size of which serves no legitimate safety function and rather is only required to crush popular dissent that threatens the powers that be.

#BULawProf Angelo Petrigh & Eliza Orlins: "Transparent scrutiny is not a threat to judicial independence..real threat stems from an unrelenting onslaught of pressure to incarcerate by the powerful NYPD, media, politicians & court admin..pressure that judges are aware of & succumb to."

today's GOP-led hearing w/UCLA, Rutgers, Northwestern will generate a lot of media buzz. But lack so much substance. here's a 🧵w critical voices the press should uplift: faculty who care abt their students, institutions & colleagues find it all at: concernedlawprofessors.com

I'm no expert but I think this will help greatly.

Professor Jamelia Morgan’s work has been field-defining. Her scholarship has been crucial to my ( and so many others’) understanding of disability law and policing. She’s also a wonderful person. The academy is so lucky to have her. A true gem! I am so angry.

Black women (and other women, people of color, marginalized people) often hear that they need to work twice as hard to get half the credit. So, when they become successful, it is usually due to their efforts DESPITE being Black and woman, not because of it.

Tried to briefly articulate the issue with prosecuting parents of school shooters. bu.edu/articles/2024/…

Today, in partnership with PLS QLD, Boston University School of Law Immigrants' Rights Clinic is proud to release this report revealing a disturbing pattern of abuse & mistreatment of #immigrant detainees at Plymouth Jail over the past 25 years. 1/🧵 full report 👇 bu.edu/law/files/2024…

Thank you Samantha Max and Gothamist for covering our new report on New Yorkers' unprotected constitutional rights. This type of reporting is crucial for promoting transparency, democratic engagement, and oversight of the judiciary by the communities it serves.

Thank you to WBUR and Shannon Dooling for covering our report on the more than 2 decades of abuses faced by detained #immigrants at Plymouth County Jail. wbur.org/news/2024/09/1…

As a young lawyer I was shocked at how anti-intellectual judges were. And everywhere I’ve gone since, judges revel in flouting the law. You are often retaliated against for making a correct legal argument or citing a case. It’s a fear every lawyer for the indigent has, every day.

Last summer, SCOTUS issued a decision which renders a portion of NY's sentencing laws unconstitutional. The legislature must now take action, and the sensible path forward is to eliminate mandatory minimum sentences once and for all. I shared my thoughts with New York Law Journal.

Check out BU Law Review's excellent symposium on law and expertise from 11/15-16 🔥 bu.edu/law/engagement…

The president does not give us our rights. The courts won't protect them. Even the Constitution fails to safeguard our rights. It's ordinary people supporting and defending each other which has always protected our rights, and no election can take that power away.

Thanks to the great team NYU Law Review for publishing Public Defense and an Abolitionist Ethic! nyulawreview.org/issues/volume-…

How might a defense lawyer counsel her client not just about an individual criminal case, but about the broader oppression of our system of mass incarceration? Former public defender Angelo Petrigh of Boston University School of Law offers insights. inquest.org/decarceral-cou…

Grateful to the folks at inquest for letting me share some thoughts about client counseling.

My latest piece discusses a tension inherent in counseling clients as a defender and argues for the benefits of acknowledging that contradiction with clients. The editors were great to work with and solicited an amazing response from Alexis Hoag-Fordjour on post-conviction counseling.

NEW EPISODE ALERT: wgnradio.com/wgn-plus/legal… Thanks to all our special guests: Angelo Petrigh, Rachel York Colangelo, Noah Henderson, Rebecca Adelman and Max Adelman.