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Twitter is for roasting Donald Trump. Building a democracy? Not so much. - The Boston Globe Will a “civic tech” boomlet in the Bay State bring us a better online politics?

Jean Camper Cahn was a true visionary for legal services in Connecticut and the nation. Originally from Baltimore, Cahn attended Yale Law School. She was a staff attorney at Neighborhood Legal Service in New Haven, which was the predecessor to what we now know as New Haven Legal Assistance! She also served as associate general counsel for the New Haven Redevelopment Agency. Cahn and her husband, Edgar Cahn, co-authored a Yale Law Journal article, “The War on Poverty: A Civilian Perspective,” which proposed a national system of legal services to the poor.” This would spark the establishment of the Legal Services Corporation (LSC). In 1964, Cahn moved to Washington DC. Cahn to become the first director of the National Legal Services Program in the Office of Economic Opportunity, and later she founded the Urban Law Institute at George Washington University. In 1972, the Cahns founded the Antioch School of Law which emphasized public interest law. The school used a clinic education model to train its students. Mrs. Cahn continued to teach and to practice law. In 1984 she was a distinguished visiting professor at Middlebury College in Vermont, and in 1986 she was a distinguished visiting scholar at the London School of Economics.

DEADLINE EXTENDED: You now have until February 14 to submit to "Creating Knowledge in Common," the latest special issue of Ground Works, our award-winning online journal. The issue, focused on university-community partnered inquiry, is guest-edited by Shannon Criss of The University of Kansas and Kevin Hamilton and Mary Pat McGuire of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. https://groundworks.io/proposals/3/home_show

Congratulations Marisa Jahn!!!