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Justice Defenders: Access to Justice is a Human Right

Thursday, October 1, 2026 @ 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Event flyer on a dark navy background with red and white text. The Justice Defenders logo is at the top left. The headline reads "Access to Justice Is a Human Right," with "Justice" in red. To the right is a photo of three people in a tearful embrace, one wearing a graduation cap. Below is a headshot of a smiling man in a red Justice Defenders hoodie, next to the text: "Guest lecture with Hamisi Mzari, Kenya Country Program Manager, Justice Defenders. Seen on Anderson Cooper 60 Minutes." Event details: Berkeley Law School, Room 240; 4:00–5:00pm; Thursday, Oct. 1. The tagline "Defend the Defenceless" runs across the middle. A section titled "Justice Defenders at a glance" lists 196,889 clients served, 81,004 clients released, and 740 paralegals trained. At the bottom are logos for the Berkeley Law International Law Society, the Berkeley Journal of International Law, and the Berkeley Law Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law.

Join us for a conversation with Hamisi Mzari, Kenya Country Programme Manager at Justice Defenders and Advocate of the High Court of Kenya. Founded in 2007 as African Prisons Project, Justice Defenders is a UK charity and U.S. nonprofit that brings legal education into prisons in Kenya and Uganda. It trains incarcerated people and prison officers side by side to become paralegals and lawyers. Together, they run legal offices inside prisons, and through university partnerships they also earn law degrees. The organization’s work was featured on CNN’s The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper.

Hamisi joined Justice Defenders as a volunteer in 2014 while incarcerated and earned his law degree through the program. He became one of its first formerly incarcerated graduates admitted to the Kenyan bar. He’ll discuss access to justice from inside prison walls and what law students can learn from a movement led by people with lived experience of the justice system.

Details

Date:
Thursday, October 1, 2026
Time:
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Event Category:

Venue

240 Law Building

Organizers

Berkeley Journal of International Law
International Law Society
Miller Institute for Global Challenges and the Law

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