Thursday, May 12, 2016
12:00 p.m. — 1:30 p.m.

Class provides an overview of the eviction process for legally removing a tenant from a rental unit. Resources for getting help also provided.

Presented by: 
Mark Kiran, Los Angeles Family Law Help Center

Registration fees: FREE - sponsored by the Friends of the Los Angeles County Law Library through the generous support of Pacific Western Bank.
Classes fill up fast, register today to reserve your seat! All registrants must check-in 10 minutes prior to class time to ensure your seat is not reassigned to waiting-list and walk-in attendees when classes are full.

Photography / Videography:
If you register for this class, you may be photographed or recorded. By registering for this class you are giving the LA Law Library your consent to photograph, videotape, record and broadcast your picture, likeness, voice and statements.  

No legal advice:
LA Law Library does not provide legal advice. LA Law Library provides legal resources and assistance with legal research as an educational service. The Law Library is pleased to offer our patrons the opportunity to obtain assistance from third party legal service providers at this and other events within the Library. However, the Library does not control and is not responsible for the content or scope of any assistance given by those providers.

Class recorded February 25, 2021.

Many schools, employers, and other organizations enforce rules regarding your personal appearance – rules which have often, historically and into the present, discriminated against Black people. But how far can these rules legally go?

Class covers:

• What happens when workplace or school appearance rules fail to take into account racial or cultural differences, gender and transgender issues, or religious practices
• How established law protects against discriminatory dress and grooming codes
• How the new CROWN Act (SB 188, passed 2019) specifically protects against hair texture and hairstyle discrimination

Course Materials: If you would like to receive a copy of the course materials for any of the classes, including any PowerPoint used, please register at the Register Now! button for the class, provided below. A staff member will email you the course materials (usually within one business day)."

Registration fee: FREE

Presented by: Tracy Sanders, Esq.

Tracy Sanders is an attorney, author, and speaker in Los Angeles. She is the founder of Natural Hair and the Law, an organization formed to provide publications, workshops, and events addressing legal issues related to natural hair in the workplace and schools. She is the author of The CROWN Act Handbook: The Official Guide to Natural Hair Discrimination Laws and Natural Hair in the Workplace: What Are Your Rights?, which has been featured by Essence, Los Angeles Sentinel, and the Black Caucus of the American Library Association. She has provided legal commentary on TV networks including ABC, Fox, MSNBC, TLC, and WE.

LA Law Library does not provide legal advice: LA Law Library does not provide legal advice. LA Law Library provides legal resources and assistance with legal research as an educational service. The information presented in this program is not legal advice and is provided solely as an educational service to our patrons. For legal advice, you should consult an attorney.   

Thursday, May 19, 2016
12:00 p.m. — 1:30 p.m.

Learn about how the law protects against illegal discrimination and harassment in the renting or leasing of housing.

Presented by: 
Nishanthi Kurukulasuriya, Mental Health Advocacy Services

Registration fees: FREE - sponsored by the Friends of the Los Angeles County Law Library through the generous support of Pacific Western Bank.
Classes fill up fast, register today to reserve your seat! All registrants must check-in 10 minutes prior to class time to ensure your seat is not reassigned to waiting-list and walk-in attendees when classes are full.

Photography / Videography:
If you register for this class, you may be photographed or recorded. By registering for this class you are giving the LA Law Library your consent to photograph, videotape, record and broadcast your picture, likeness, voice and statements.  

No legal advice:
LA Law Library does not provide legal advice. LA Law Library provides legal resources and assistance with legal research as an educational service. The Law Library is pleased to offer our patrons the opportunity to obtain assistance from third party legal service providers at this and other events within the Library. However, the Library does not control and is not responsible for the content or scope of any assistance given by those providers.

Tuesday, April 27, 2021: 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

CLASS WILL BE HELD VIA ZOOM. ZOOM INFORMATION WILL BE EMAILED TO REGISTRANTS PRIOR TO CLASS START TIME.

Join author Jessica Goudeau and the LA Law Library book discussion group as we begin our exploration of immigration issues with a discussion of After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America.  Journalist Goudeau presents a richly detailed account of the resettlement experiences of two women granted refugee status in the U.S. while interweaving their stories with the twists and turns of American immigration policy from 1880 to the present.  The New York Times Book Review described the book as “simply brilliant, both in its granular storytelling and its enormous compassion”.  Named a New York Times Editors’ Choice book and a finalist for the J.Anthony Lukas Book Prize.

About Jessica Goudeau:

• Spent more than a decade working with refugees in Austin, Texas and co-founder of Hill Tribers, a non-profit that provided supplemental income for Burmese refugee artisans.
• PhD in literature from University of Texas and served as a Mellon Writing Fellow and Interim Writing Center Director at Southwestern University.
• Articles published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and other publications.

Presented by: Katie O’Laughlin, Managing Librarian, Reference & Research

Registration fee: FREE