The Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at NYU School of Law is currently accepting applications for its full-time 10-week summer legal internship program, which will run from June 4, 2018 to August 10, 2018. Applications are due November 1, 2017.
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The Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice is hosting a public convening called Justice Works: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Community Justice on Tuesday October 3rd from 5-7pm in Milstein East C. Details in the poster below.
Exciting event/webcast at the Berkman Klein Center tomorrow, connected to the Justice Lab paper on the American Student Debt Crisis, with a focus on for-profit colleges: More than two million students are enrolled in for-profit colleges, from the small family-run operations
On April 28th, Judge Lee H. Rosenthal issued an unprecedented 193-page ruling, holding that the Harris County money bail system is unconstitutional. The judge considered hundreds of exhibits, thousands of videos, hundreds of thousands of records, and numerous live expert
Arkansas’ attempt to execute eight death row inmates prior to April 30th, when their supply of midazolam expires, stands in stark contrast to the declining trend of execution by lethal injection and opens a new front in the culture wars.
From one of our systemic justice students, here is an illuminating website briefly describing capital punishment in America, focusing in particular in how inadequate representation disadvantages a large number of capital defendants and skews the system against them. Included is
Today is the final day of the 2017 Systemic Justice Conference: Repairing our Broken Systems! Come for breakfast at 9:45am in time for the Justice Lab presentation on A Coordinated Community Approach to Homelessness which starts at 10:00am. That will be
Come to Pound Hall, Harvard Law School for day two of the 2017 Systemic Justice Conference! Highlights include: Brunch Forum of recent graduates! KEYNOTE BY ROBIN STEINBERG Presentations on Qualified Immunity, Delivering Legal Services, & Amicus Briefs The second Systemic
Over the last decade, the U.S. has been confronted with repeated reminders that our systems are failing. From growing wealth and racial inequalities to climate change and environmental degradation, and from economic and criminal-justice crises to a deeply dysfunctional political
Event TODAY: Afternoon of Engagement Members of the Harvard community will have received an invitation from President Drew Faust to participate in An Afternoon of Engagement, an innovative, interactive workshop that is part of the outreach efforts of the University Task