Emerging to counter the anti-democratic and anti-equality culture and its progeny, the Critical Justice Initiative aims to educate, protect, nurture, and further the critical knowledges and histories sought of late to be suppressed, including those who teach them, and those groups that historically and today were and are subordinated by law and society, particularly as judged by material outcomes. These knowledges come primarily from bottom groups in societal caste, which have in turn informed bodies of critical legal scholarship (ranging across Critical Legal Studies, legal feminism, Critical Race Theory, LatCrit, ClassCrit, and TWAIL-Third World Approaches to International Law, among others) that in recent decades have helped to map and explain why law re/produces so many persistent “gaps” in justice. Complimenting this worldview or framework explaining the role of law in producing and maintaining injustice, but also at the same time as a tool toward equality, are the recorded lessons of those advocates (including participants in Community Lawyering, Cause Lawyering, Rebellious Lawyering, and others) who helped to assemble accessible tools to counter the causes and effects of justice gaps by using law for justice ever-more sharply.

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