National Lawyers Guild
University of Wisconsin Law School

The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) is dedicated to the need for basic and progressive change in the structure of our political and economic system. Through its members--lawyers, law students, jailhouse lawyers and legal workers united in chapters and committees--the Guild works locally, nationally and internationally as an effective political and social force in the service of the people.

The University of Wisconsin NLG is one of the scores of  NLG chapters in the US, providing opportunities for law students to defend the principle that "... human rights should be more sacred that property rights."

Our aims:

• to eliminate racism;
• to safeguard and strengthen the rights of workers, women, farmers and minority groups, upon whom the welfare of the entire nation depends;
• to maintain and protect our civil rights and liberties in the face of persistent attacks upon them;
• to use the law as an instrument for the protection of the people, rather than for their repression.

"...to the end that human rights shall be regarded as more sacred than property interests."