Christopher will be a part of the Public Interest Palooza Friday, April 4, from 2 to 6 PM, at LMU’s Loyola Law School, 919 Albany Street, Los Angeles, California 90015. Christopher will be participating on the Session 2 panel (3:20 - 4:20 PM) Beyond the Flames: Housing Justice and Rebuilding After the Wildfires along with:

• Kaimi Wenger– Is a supervising attorney at Inner City Law Center and the Director of the eviction defense clinic at Southwestern Law School, where he teaches and supervises clinical students. Kaimi is also the author of the article LIJPIL has the honor of publishing in our upcoming issue.

• Awoenam Mauna-Woanya – An urban sustainability professional focused on supporting building decarbonization efforts through his work at the California Air Resources Board. He is passionate about empowering folks to engage civically through his activism with Urban Environmentalists and Sunrise Movement LA.

• Michala Storms (Moderator) – A Loyola law school and LIJPIL Alum who pursued law to organize for the legal empowerment of our most vulnerable communities. Michala is currently a Housing Justice Fellow at Inner City Law Center.

To Learn more and register for the free and public event please use the link below.

Volume 2 of the Loyola Interdisciplinary Journal of Public Interest Law is revolving around the decades long housing crisis and the lack of recognition that housing is a fundamental human right. Emergency housing measures implemented in response to the COVID-19 pandemic offered a transformational view of possible policies and regulations to combat the housing crisis and homelessness. Given that many of these measures have expired, what does the post-COVID landscape demonstrate about the positive and negative impacts of these measures on populations experiencing housing instability? How can we—as students and practitioners in the legal field—work with organizers and members of these communities to create an equitable housing reality? How do we equitably build and rebuild communities following the recent devastating wildfires in the Pacific Palisades and Altadena communities?
The  Loyola Interdisciplinary  Journal  of Public Interest Law  is an academic  journal  with an interdisciplinary and narrative-based approach to public interest advocacy and education. The  journal  strives to disrupt “traditional” law school curricula and pedagogy by bringing together scholarly articles, lectures, and practitioner essays alongside poetry, art, and short creative and autoethnographic works to emphasize the power of storytelling in systemic change. Inspired by the Los Angeles Public Interest Law  Journal, a 2007 independent collaboration between Southern California law schools, LIJPIL is proud to pursue topical themes in public interest law collectively chosen by its staff. The  journal  is committed to highlighting the stories of underrepresented communities by providing a  forum  for  a diverse range of legal professionals, scholars, policymakers, artists, and critical thinkers.