Through a series of short biographical and other historical readings, this seminar will examine the lives and work of lawyers -- men and women in the U.S and abroad -- who use the law as a tool for social and economic change, including contemporary figures addressing such subjects as educational inequality, rural poverty, environmental justice, and democratic empowerment. The seminar will look for both the unique and the common attributes of those who made lasting change through the employment of legal strategies to address social ills from personal qualities to the kinds of organizations and movements they created. This seminar may be used to satisfy the writing requirement for graduation.