Legal Grounds | Conversations on Life, Leadership & Law
After over three decades in the legal-trenches, Mike Bassett has learned to appreciate two things: good conversation & good coffee.
Legal Grounds is an ongoing series of interviews with the people who are shaping our world - legal or otherwise. Witty, irreverent, & always thoughtful, these brief discussions fall somewhere between “Night Court” & Hopper’s “Nighthawks At The Diner”.
With that in mind, we promise your coffee will still be warm when the podcast is done.
(Legal Grounds was written, recorded, and produced by Dust Devil Press)
Legal Grounds | Conversations on Life, Leadership & Law
Legal Grounds | Astrid Munn On Seeking Out More Narratives, the Language of Dehumanization, & the Frontlines of Immigration Law
The observation that, “justice is merely incidental to law and order” has been on my mind more often than not these past few months.
Though possibly apocryphal, the quote is attributed to J. Edgar Hoover and – irony aside – is a solid piece of logic.
As you may have guessed from the subject-line, today’s episode is not going to be a jovial one. I also think it happens to be one of the most important we’ve ever recorded.
And while the subject of immigration carries the weight of policy and politics, THIS conversation is about the laws that already exist – the same one’s all attorneys are sworn to uphold.
My guest this week is Astrid Munn, Lead Attorney for the Center of Immigration and Refugee Advancement.
Her work centers around providing direct representation to clients who have survived violent crime, domestic violence, and severe forms of trafficking.
Astrid and I discuss the consequences of cherry-picking language, the impact of the current legal climate on legal education, and why so often the important work goes unseen.
Enjoy the show.
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