Peter Herbert OBE is a British barrister and political activist. He is an independent member of the Metropolitan Police Authority, a “part-time recorder in the crown court as well as a part-time immigration and employment tribunal judge and chair of the Society of Black Lawyers“. He has campaigned against racism in football. He was appointed …
Dominique Day is an American attorney, admitted to practice in New York. She sits on the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent. She has two decades of experience as a justice advocate in the United States and internationally; her research, teaching, and access to justice work has taken her all over …
Deborah Enix-Ross is Senior Advisor, Global Engagement, for the International Dispute Resolution Group and a member of the firm’s Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Council. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Enix-Ross served as a Senior Legal Officer and Head of the External Relations and Information Section of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Arbitration and …
Mr. Alozie Etufugh is the Managing Partner of Etufugh Law. He began his legal career with an Intellectual Property law firm based in New York City. His firm’s current practice areas include all aspects of Patent, Trademark and Copyright law, including prosecution, corporate transactions, licensing, and client counseling. Mr. Etufugh has a background in Electrical …
Dawda A. Jallow is the Attorney General and Minister of Justice of the Republic of The Gambia. He was born in the West Coast region of The Gambia on 27 November 1975. He obtained an LLB from the University of The Gambia in 2010, and an LLM in International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law from …
Adriana Alves dos Santos Cruz is a Brazilian jurist,federal judge for the state of Rio de Janeiro . She is notable for becoming, in 1999, one of the first black federal judges in the country, and for having led several initiatives to promote human rights and racial equality in the Judiciary. Adriana graduated in Law …
Judge Carlos E. Moore, a Moss Point, Mississippi native, is the Managing Partner of The Cochran Firm – Mississippi Delta based in Grenada, Mississippi. In July of 2017, he was appointed as the first African-American Municipal Judge Pro Tem for the City of Clarksdale, Mississippi and in May of 2020 he was named the first …
Carla Parris is an Entertainment and Sports Lawyer with a Master’s degree in Entertainment & Intellectual Property Law. She is also a TED X 2018 Speaker, Web and TV Producer & CEO of an online educational services company Parris Productions Ltd. The company produces the Web & TV series The Business Of Carnival ®, an …
Beverley Agbakoba Onyejianya is a Sports, Entertainment & Tech lawyer and creator of a skills and personal development platform called ‘Develop Your A Game‘. She describes herself as a lawyer-preneur . She regularly advises a range of clients from techies, accelerator hubs, film directors, real estate, founders, SME’s ,sports clubs, sports associations, etc. Beverley also …
Bryan Stevenson is the Founder & Executive Director of the Equal Justice Initiative, a human rights organization in Montgomery, Alabama. Under his leadership, EJI has won major legal challenges eliminating excessive and unfair sentencing, exonerating innocent death row prisoners, confronting abuse of the incarcerated and the mentally ill, and aiding children prosecuted as adults. He …