Yavar Hameed

I worked for three years at a labour law firm focusing on trade union law, employment law and human rights. Working for trade unions was great – don’t get me wrong – but I decided that there had to be a more direct way in which the law could be used to engage with social change, that addresses both individual problems and systemic and structural injustice. I wanted to help individuals and communities to resist injustice such as discrimination on the basis of poverty, police brutality, persecution of people on the basis of dissident political views, whistle blowing, racial profiling,...