Lauren Sudeall

David Daniels Allen Distinguished Chair of Law & Director, Access to Justice Initiative, Vanderbilt Law School. NASH + ATL = ❤️; she/her.

[Lauren Sudeall @lsudeall]

Unbelievable @Delta - you cancelled my flight just hours before takeoff and even with my Delta status, and a record-breaking year in profits, could do nothing to help me. #fail

[Lauren Sudeall @lsudeall]

Thankful for the opportunity and excited to be featured in the latest episode of "Quantum Potential" with @VanderbiltU Provost @ccybeleraver, talking about how and why it is so important to work toward a more people-centered justice system. https://t.co/LceiJPdUru

[Lauren Sudeall @lsudeall]

@mjburnett Thank you!

[Lauren Sudeall @lsudeall]

This semester in Con Law I, I played a song clip at the beginning of each class (starting wk 2) and asked the students to guess the relevance. Bonus points for anyone who wants to try - here’s the playlist for Fall 2024 😉 https://t.co/dBvCpLXTsE

[Lauren Sudeall @lsudeall]

“In the first six weeks of the school year, 18 kids were arrested for making threats of mass violence. A third of them have disabilities, more than double the proportion of students with disabilities across the district.” https://t.co/bRR56Pa01t

[Lauren Sudeall @lsudeall]

What an incredible gift to be able to facilitate these moments of connection and to play a small role in amplifying our shared humanity. #accesstojustice #VanderbiltLaw https://t.co/mubZBwFBxm

[Lauren Sudeall @lsudeall]

Several of the inside students said they were leaving the class more hopeful than they had entered -- hopeful that there are law students wanting to make a difference and people working to change the law.

[Lauren Sudeall @lsudeall]

They hoped to continue these conversations - and we'll talk in our last law school class session next week about ideas for doing so.

[Lauren Sudeall @lsudeall]

In our last class this past Tuesday, one woman emphasized the importance of creating spaces for dialogue "between the people who make laws and the people living those laws."

[Lauren Sudeall @lsudeall]

Part of what I loved most about the class was that it intentionally placed all of the students on a level plane, rather than having students interact through a lawyer-client relationship.

[Lauren Sudeall @lsudeall]

I was less sure what the inside students would gain from it, but was relieved to hear that they found it valuable as well.

[Lauren Sudeall @lsudeall]

At times, the outside students found it sobering and other times shocking; but across the board, they found it impactful.

[Lauren Sudeall @lsudeall]

They learned a great deal about how the criminal legal system works in practice, and how it feels to experience that system from a very different perspective than we often hear in law school.

[Lauren Sudeall @lsudeall]

The outside students developed and facilitated meaningful conversations about justice, access to justice, the role of lawyers, alternative models of legal services provision, and reform.

[Lauren Sudeall @lsudeall]

As with many new endeavors, I wasn't sure how it would go. We had some bumps along the way -- including having to reschedule our first class due to a COVID-lockdown at the prison -- but overall, it proved to be a truly phenomenal experience.

[Lauren Sudeall @lsudeall]

This fall, I piloted a new access to justice class at @vanderbiltlaw. It was intended to create a collaborative and two-way learning environment for law students (+ one divinity school student) and students incarcerated at the women's prison in Nashville - a 🧵

[Lauren Sudeall @lsudeall]

Just looked up my GA sample ballot ... if you (like me) would like to know more about the constitutional amendments on there, here's some info. from @wabenews https://t.co/4BVj7OqEip

[Lauren Sudeall @lsudeall]

Hallowe’en ready 🎃

[Lauren Sudeall @lsudeall]

So glad to see efforts (here by @MarshallProj and others) to make more information available on local elections (including judicial elections), which are so important. We need more of this. https://t.co/mO5ON7iZD1

[Lauren Sudeall @lsudeall]

Vanderbilt - Alabama. Unbelievable. #AnchorDown