By SJP Friend Annaleigh Curtis (reposted from Second Shift): “What does it require for a subperson to assert himself or herself politically? To begin with, it means simply, or not so simply, claiming the moral status of personhood. So it
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There have been recent developments in three important stories. First, the full text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) has been released. Second, the New York Attorney General has opened an investigation following revelations that Exxon Mobil’s scientists were warning it about the
UPCOMING EVENT Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics A discussion with author Marie Gottschalk Thursday, November 12, 2015 5:30 – 7:30 pm Wasserstein Hall, Room 2004 Harvard Law School In this book, Marie Gottschalk exposes the
Richard Thaler writes in the New York Times about the problem that nudges can be used for good or bad. He specifies three principles for nudging, and then writes: As far as I know, the government teams in Britain and
I’m not a huge fan of David Cameron, even though he was once very kind to my grandmother, who lives in his constituency, but it’s nice to see him taking steps on the issue of implicit bias. As he writes in the
The Systemic Justice Project is thrilled to be co-sponsoring Dan Coquillette’s talk tomorrow (Tuesday): “On the Battlefield of Merit,” a lecture by Dan Coquillette October 27 @ 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm Based on his extensive research (and just-published and
From Today’s New York Times, an article about the important work that Alec Karakatsanis and his colleagues (with the assistance of several HLS students) have been doing to fight systemic injustice around the country. In January, Christy Dawn Varden was
Josie Duffy, a friend of SJP, is writing about prosecutors and needs your help. From Daily Kos: As many of you know, my writing at Daily Kos focuses primarily on prosecutors: Instances of prosecutorial misconduct, examples of outsized prosecutorial power,
From New York Review of Books: People on the left believe that systems are corrupt. People on the right tend to believe that the system (at least as they understand its design) is just fine, and it’s individual people who