HLS SALDF presents their second annual Animal Law Week! Sponsored by the Animal Legal Defense Fund and the Harvard Animal Law & Policy Program Second Annual HLS SALDF Animal Law Week February 15 – February 19 A talk every day,
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The amazing Lydia Edwards, a member of our Board of Advisers, has announced her candidacy for the Massachusetts State Senate. She writes: “I want to advocate for the working families of Boston, Cambridge, Revere and Winthrop. I’ve already begun this
Alec Karakatsanis (a member of our Board of Advisors) writes with news about a case that he helped spearhead in which a federal judge in Georgia yesterday “granted a class-wide preliminary injunction forcing the City of Calhoun to end its
16 April 1963 My Dear Fellow Clergymen: While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities “unwise and untimely.” Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas.
Just Food? Forum on Land use, rights and ecology A conference exploring LAND AND THE FOOD SYSTEM: HOW LAND AFFECTS WHAT WE EAT, WHO WE ARE, AND THE ENVIRONMENT WE LIVE IN March 25–26, 2016 This year’s Just Food? conference
Great news from Alec Karakatsanis (a member of our Board) about another step toward justice. Alec’s team won a major victory last night against money bail and private probation in Rutherford County, Tennessee. The federal court in Nashville issued a
Below is a letter signed by members of the teaching community at Harvard Law School. December 9, 2015 An Open Letter to the Harvard Law School Community We, as faculty members, lecturers, instructors and senior staff at Harvard
By SJP Friend Jay Willis (reposted from Needs Further Review): With increasing frequency, students on college campuses across the country are forcing their old, proud, veritable institutions of higher education to think critically and honestly about the echoes of entrenched racism on their
From Harvard Gazette: According to Yale Professor John Dovidio, “Whites spend a lot of time pretending they don’t see race.” But, he said, unconscious bias is pervasive, and unconscious biases by whites impact nearly every aspect of black lives, including