An Open Letter to the Harvard Law School Community from the staff of the Student Practice Organizations (SPOs): We, the below named staff of the Harvard Prison Legal Assistance Project, Harvard Defenders, and the Tenant Advocacy Project, wish to state
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By Lindsey Whyte As a brand-new student in the art of facilitation, one of my first lessons was in the importance of maintaining neutrality on the substance of discussion and, relatedly, in the value of calling in an outside facilitator
Christopher Benson has written a great piece on Spotlight and the problems with an individualistic, rather than a systemic, focus: [M]erely exposing individual wrongdoers does not go far enough if systemic flaws enable wrongdoing to continue. That is the driving dramatic question
The Systemic Justice Project will host its second annual Systemic Justice Conference at Harvard Law School on Friday, April 8 – 10, 2016. Stay tuned for more details.
The fifth and final session of the Criminal Justice Program’s Race, Place, & Policing: What Can We Learn From Baltimore series (cosponsored by the Systemic Justice Project) is this Monday, Feb 29th at 5:30pm in WCC2009. The session will feature
By Deanna Parrish As long as we are on earth, the love that unites us will bring us suffering by our very contact with one another, because this love is the resetting of a Body of broken bones. Even saints
In fall 2015 the Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program (HNMCP), in collaboration with the Systemic Justice Project (SJP), launched a joint initiative for Harvard Law School (HLS) students called Real Talk – a series of small group facilitated dialogues
Systemic Justice Project alums Whitney Benns and Blake Strode have a powerful and vital piece in The Atlantic about 21st century debtors’ prisons in St. Louis, but really about systemic racism. They write: As the recent deluge of reports and litigation confirms,
The fourth session of the Criminal Justice Program of Study, Research and Advocacy’s series on Race, Place and Policing: What we can Learn from Baltimore is tomorrow! Andrés Alonso, Professor of Practice at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and
Unbound: Harvard Journal of the Legal Left and the HLS Modern Money Network are hosting an event this Friday at noon in WCC1019 called Beyond Sanders and Clinton: Visionary Futures for Democratic Economics. Blurb and Poster below: Beyond Sanders and