This course introduces students to the principles, values, and strategies involved in lawyering for social change. In spring 2025 the focus will be on today’s serious challenges to democracy and the roles of lawyers in meeting these challenges. The challenges include not only the January 6th insurrection, but political and racial gerrymandering of state legislatures and Congressional districts, restrictions on the voting process and the right to vote, threats against local election workers for doing their jobs, disinformation campaigns, and attacks on public and private education, among others. Students will study the ways lawyers, in coalitions and with communities, are responding to these attacks, including through litigation, legislation, public information, policy-making and other strategies. To integrate theory and practice, students will work in teams on real-world projects drawn from actual legal work of democracy-protective organizations. The course will be taught primarily by Professor Michael Millemann, with participation of leading advocates, including lawyers and community leaders, who are doing democracy-protective work. The course will include active discussion of readings, applied simulation activities, and the major real-world project.