CONTENTS

Introduction: Lawyers as Problem-Solvers in Crisis 1

Ray Brescia and Eric K. Stern

part i: beyond the familiar and the imperative

of creativity

1. A Client's Crisis Becomes a Legal Crisis: A Domestic Violence

Ruling Goes Global 13

Caroline Bettinger-Lopez

2.

Decades of Representing Guantanamo Detainees 32

Baher Azmy

3. Responding to the (Dual) Policing Crisis in Ferguson 63

Christy E. Lopez

4. When Crisis Comes to the Newsroom: The Media Lawyer in a

Time of Global Unrest 108

David E. McCraw

5. Crisis in the Courts: The Campaign to Get ICE Out of New York

State Courts 127

Lee Wang

6. Preparation, Crisis, Struggle, Ideas: The Birth of the Detention

Outreach Project 146

Sarah Rogerson

part ii: crisis and systemic contexts

7. Key Considerations for Lawyers Shepherding Communities

through Long-Term Recovery from Major Disasters 167

John Travis Marshall

8. Judging and Mediating for the “Long Emergency”:

Superstorm Sandy, New York State's Regulatory Response to

the Climate Change Crisis, and Reforming the Energy Vision 189 Eleanor Stein

9. Litigation for the Homeless in the 1980s: A Look Back 207

Richard Pinner

10. Scaling Worker Cooperatives as an Economic Justice Tool

for Communities in Crises 229

Carmen Huertas-Noble, Missy Risser-Lovings, and Christopher Adams

11. The Crisis Comes Once a Year: Lawyering on Election Day 249

David S. Turetsky

part ill: beyond borders and silos

12. Bordering on Crisis: Overcoming Multiagency Crisis

Coordination Challenges 269

Brian Wilson and Nora Johnson

13. Legal Advice in Crisis Training for Government Lawyers:

Perspectives from the United States and Sweden 290

Eric K. Stern, Brad Kieserman, Torkel Schlegel, Per-Ake Martensson, and Ella Carlberg

part iv: educating and skill-building

14. Call Air Traffic Control! Confronting Crisis as Lawyers

and Teachers 311

Muneer I. Ahmad and Michael J. Wishnie

15. Leveraging Lawyers' Strengths and Training Them to Support

Team Problem-Solving Under Crisis Conditions 340

Scott Westfahl

16. Stay Calm and Carry On: How to Stay on Point When in a Crisis 356

Jay Sullivan

Conclusion 379

Ray Brescia and Eric K. Stern

Acknowledgments 395

About the Editors 397

About the Contributors 399

Index 403