The first Saturday Systemic Justice Teach-In–“Storytelling for Justice: East Palestine”–was a great success. After Jessenia Class and Simone Unwalla welcomed everyone, Jon Hanson provided a short lecture to help frame the day’s events. He described the legal systems two-sided justice
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Read Deepika Singh’s Harvard Law Record article, “Community Gathers for Systemic Justice Project’s First Teach-In of the Year.” Last week, Oren Nimni of the nonprofit civil rights firm Rights Behind Bars (RBB) spoke to a packed room of students at the lunch event
Jon Hanson posted a twitter thread responding to Ian Millhiser’s thread advising law students to: “Bust your fucking ass. Do all the reading, plus the hornbook. Get on law review. Credential the fuck out of yourself.” Hanson’s thread highlights several
This piece from The [F]law investigates the corporate for-profit structure of Broadway. Over decades of corporatization of Times Square and Broadway, a few companies have established a monopoly on Broadway theaters. As a result, ticket prices have soared, producers are
After Dobbs, dozens of well-known corporations promised to protect the abortion rights of their own employees, most commonly by offering to cover abortion-related travel under the company health insurance plan. These statements and prospective policies make for good PR, but
Corporations like Google & Facebook made headlines when they promised to support their employees’ reproductive choices in the wake of the Dobbs v. Jackson decision. But their data mining practices and cooperation with law enforcement endanger those who are already
The digital divide in the United States is not an accident. It is the product of deliberate decisions by ISPs that have consistently prioritizing profit over people. A multidistrict litigation effort seeks to hold social media behemoths accountable for
At the the 2023 Corporate Capture of the Legal System Conference at Harvard Law School, Noam Chomsky and Jon Hanson discussed “The Legal Sources and Consequences of Corporate Power” (moderated by Michael Lehavi and introduced by Eleftheria Papadaki). The conference
Lucy Litt’s new article on The [F]law uncovers how law enforcement’s data collection and surveillance tools are often inaccurate, yet they are constantly expanding. The more “sophisticated” such tools become, the harder it will be to challenge biases that underlie
Jessenia Class’s new article on The [F]law uncovers how corporate actors funding Cop City under the guise of public safety and “neighborhood prosperity” are harming the very people they claim to serve. Read the article here. “Foundations and corporate actors