What do you do with a justice and peace studies major or minor?

Practice compassionate law.

TaeRa Kim Franklin. 1995, majors in justice and peace studies and English.

At College, TaeRa interned with the Minnesota Attorney General's Office and with Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights.

After graduation she earned a law degree from the Benjamin Cardozo School of Law of Yeshiva University.  Her essay won first prize in a competition sponsored by the New York State Bar Association and was published in their journal:  The Formation, Evolution, and Application of the Bremen Standard: "The New Federal Common Law Approach to Choice of Forum and Law Clauses in International Contracts," 7 NYSBA NY Bus. L. J. 22 (Summer 2003)

Then she served as law clerk for the Hon. Adlai S. Hardin, Jr., United States Bankruptcy Judge, Southern District of New York. She extolls the value of bankruptcy law as a compassionate yet responsible way to help people in trouble make a new start.

She served as Assistant Corporation Counsel in the Tax & Bankruptcy Litigation Division of the New York City Department of Law from 2005-2008.  Her third scholarly article was published by the New York University Law Journal.

In June 2008, she joined South Brooklyn Legal Services as Staff Attorney (Foreclosure Prevention).

The mission of South Brooklyn Legal Services is to seek equal justice for low-income people in Brooklyn by providing a broad range of legal advocacy and information, helping empower poor people to identify and defeat the causes and effects of poverty in their communities. SBLS is a program of Legal Services NYC, 

She is also Editor in Chief of  the New York City Bar Monday Night Law Newsletter. Monday Night Law is a free legal clinic for the poor in lower Manhattan. She is a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute where she is the Membership Relations Director of the Bankruptcy Taxation Committee.

She has published the following additional articles:

• Convergence of Cross-Border Insolvency Laws: "It's a Good Thing,"
  8 NYSBA NY Bus. L. J. 28 (Spring 2004).  
• Deepening Insolvency: What It is and Why It Should Prevail. NYU Journal of Law & Business, Spring 2006