Lawyers and Revolutionaries
and : Lawyers and Revolutionaries 49 Lawyers and Revolutionaries: Notes from the Featuring William Kunstler, Charles Garry, National Conference on Political Justice Jerry Rubin and others1 by Kas Kalba and Jay Beste Kas Katha is a topic editor of Law and Social Action and a doctoral student in city planning at the University of Pennsylvania. Jay Beste, also at the University of Pennsylvania, is in the joint program in law and city planning. In addition, he is associate editor of Planning Comment, the national journal of planning students. Published by Yale Law School Legal Scholarship Repository, 1971 1 Yale Review of Law and Social Action, Vol. 1 [1971], Iss. 1, Art. 5 so The trial of the Conspiracy alienation and often the hair style of "Do It!" Jerry Rubin 8-later-7 has opened a Pandora's box their clients, or there are no lawyers." of questions about the American The following report on the On Thursday evening, Jerry Rubin judicial system. Some of these National Conference on Political arrives on the Penn campus. Half questions concern the revolutionary Justice, held from March 19 to 21, Mighty Mouse, with arched shoulders forces in America. But others strike 1970, may help us to understand some and upraised, clenched fist, and half directly at our thinking about the of the legal and emotional issues Alfred E. Neuman, grinning with courts. involved. The conference was held at satisfaction at nearly 3,000 students Where, for example, does the the University of Pennsylvania, an who gathered at Irvine Auditorium to young lawyer, steeped in the tradition institution that prides itself on not hear him, he proceeds to lambast the of Brown v.
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