When the Thin Blue Line Becomes Delta Force: Rights in the Crosshairs

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David Gespass (Photo by Thomas Good/Next Left Notes)

The National Lawyers Guild is honored to present David Gespass, a civil rights attorney who will be coming to speak about police misconduct and human rights, both at home and abroad. His lecture, "When the Thin Blue Line Becomes Delta Force: Rights in the Crosshairs," will be at noon Tuesday, Nov. 18, in the the courtroom, Room 240, of the Leflar Law Center. A lunch will be provided.

Gespass began his law practice in Washington, D.C., in 1971; his current practice is located in Birmingham, Alabama. He spent a year working in Yokosuka and Okinawa, Japan, with the National Lawyers Guild Military Law Office. He is the immediate past president of the National Lawyers Guild. 

Gespass has served as editor-in-chief of the Guild Practitioner (now NLG Review), the Guild's intellectual journal. He was a founder, and serves on the steering committee, of the Military Law Task Force and has been a member of the advisory board of the National Police Accountability Project since its founding in 1999.

Gespass is a member of the organizing committee for the Southern Human Rights Organizers Conference, to be held in Savannah, Georgia, on Dec. 12-14 and is an adjunct professor at the University of Alabama at Birmingham where he will be teaching a course in human rights during the upcoming term.

The National Lawyers Guild is a national non-pro?t legal and political organization comprised of lawyers, legal workers, law students, and jailhouse lawyers, now celebrating 75 years since the Guild’s founding. We represent progressive political movements, using the law to protect human rights above property interests and to attain social justice.