Margaret Russell: Toward Civil Liberties for All

Margaret Russell is a faculty member at Santa Clara’s Law School, and serves as the university’s Interim Associate Provost for Diversity and Inclusion. Dr. Russell founded the East Palo Alto Community Law Project during her law program at Stanford, and has served on the board of the ACLU for 30 years. Dr. Russell specializes in constitutional law, and is frequently quoted in Bay Area news sources about current events in politics.

In this conversation, we discuss how Dr. Russell got interested in constitutional law, why lawyers are more like creative problem solvers than the stereotype of law being boring, what she learned from starting the East Palo Alto Community Law Project, and advice for students on staying engaged in political issues. 

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