Pro Bono Lawyers, Law School Clinics, and Innovators
Be Part of our “Brain Trust”
Innovation loves company! The value of this work comes in the collaborations. CAL regularly partners with law students, pro bono attorneys, and expert practitioners to conduct research, advise on strategies, draft documents, etc. You don’t have to have a background in human rights. In fact, it’s often other areas of law where we need the most support!
If you have time to conduct research/analysis on discrete legal questions, if you have expertise in a particular area of law and can answer questions from us or our interns and fellows, or if you want to participate in occasional events (convenings, special events, hack-a-thons, webinars, brown bag lunches and happy hours).
Fill out the Brain Trust intake form to let us know some details!
Join Our Legal Idea Bank
The Idea Bank is an online platform facilitated by Corporate Accountability Lab that aims to serve the corporate accountability community by providing: 1) a tool to enable, foster, and supplement in-person and online connection between colleagues in the corporate accountability community worldwide; and 2) a working space where corporate accountability lawyers and activists can share knowledge, including novel ideas and lessons learned.
The core of the Idea Bank is a repository of legal research based on the theory that much-needed innovation in the corporate accountability field comes from working together across experiences, perspectives, and jurisdictions. While much of the research contained in the Idea Bank relates to strategies using U.S. law, the Idea Bank's scope is not limited to U.S. strategies, and we hope that our members will help us build out new sections over time. Our aim is to provide a dynamic space not just for polished publications, but also for memos, notes, and musings on ideas for corporate accountability on human rights that are shared for input with trusted members of our community.
Learn more about the Idea Bank and get sign up information here!
Partner with us
These legal strategies are not designed to stay in the Lab. To test them, refine them, adapt them, and succeed, we need people who can help us take these innovations to the field, factory, and courtroom. CAL currently works with law school clinics and pro bono attorneys to help implement test cases on our current projects.
If you have the time and interest in committing longer-term, if you work with/run a law clinic or want to be pro bono counsel on a test case, or if you want to try out the strategy in a new case, or help spread the word about the strategy.
Fill out the intake form here to let us know some details!
Contribute to the “Design Lab”
The only way to get new strategies out there is to develop them. CAL wants to create a “culture of innovation.”
If you have ideas about an innovative legal strategy that you want us to research, if you want to help build out a potential strategy that has been brought to us, or if you want to focus on a specific legal innovation idea through the Design Lab, contact us below.