Great news from two friends of the Systemic Justice Project: A small city bordering Ferguson, Mo., has agreed to pay $4.7 million to compensate nearly 2,000 people who spent time in the city’s jail for not paying fines and fees
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Systemic Justice Project friend, Jay Willis, has recently been writing with insight and wit about the problem of homelessness. This week, he published the following op-ed in Crosscut. *** In Seattle, the recent explosion in homelessness has transformed the issue into
This is a republication of a post originally posted on December 26th 2014: Last week a South Carolina judge took the unprecedented step of vacating the 1944 conviction of a black 14-year-old boy, the youngest person executed in the United
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Letter from the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute and the Criminal Justice Institute, about an exciting and important new project at Harvard Law School: Dear Friends and Colleagues: We’d like to introduce the Fair Punishment Project (FPP), a brand new initiative
Registration for the 2016 Systemic Justice Conference is now open! Register here or click on the logo below: The conference is free and open to all but those who register will have first access to food! More information, including the tentative
By Ariel Eckblad There have been at least 13 iterations of this piece. Last December, the first draft began— In November, someone placed strips of black tape over the portraits of tenured black professors at Harvard Law. Today, as I
2016 Systemic Justice Conference: Access, Inclusion, Protest, Education More info at https://systemicjusticeconference.wordpress.com/ Friday, April 8, 2016 – Access 12:00 – 12:15 PM: Lunch pickup & Introductions (WCC – 2012) 12:20 – 1:40 PM: Access to Justice Presentation (WCC – 2012)
By Carson Wheet I love negotiation theory. In fact, I hope to make a long career out of teaching others how to negotiate effectively, but every time someone asks me about my future profession, their eyes glaze over as I