[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=695rhVXHG48] From the 2013 Harvard Law School Conference,”Deep Capture: Psychology, Public Relations, Democracy, and Law.” Hume’s Maxim: “Nothing appears more surprising to those who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed
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An important op-ed by Systemic Justice Project Board of Advisors member Alec Karakatsanis on the way that political fear is preventing illegally sentenced prisoners from being released. There are many people like Mr. Gilbert in America’s federal prisons — people
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_dHa5iZPCg] February 13, 2015 – at Harvard Law School – Students for Inclusion Event (“Law School Matters: Reassessing Legal Education Post-Ferguson” Conference). The title of this event, featuring keynote presentations by Professors Peller and Crenshaw, was “Law School or Justice
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE8wG89_Jkw] February 12, 2015 – at Harvard Law School – Students for Inclusion Event (“Law School Matters: Reassessing Legal Education Post-Ferguson” Conference) speakers include Duncan Kennedy, Kim Crenshaw, Gary Peller, and Aziza Ahmed.
[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zORE_u00rg0&feature=youtu.be] February 12, 2015 – at Harvard Law School – Students for Inclusion Event (“Law School Matters: Reassessing Legal Education Post-Ferguson” Conference) speakers include Dan Coquillette, Kim Crenshaw, Phil Lee, and Victoria White-Mason
Ted Hamilton (HLS 3L) published a Boston Globe article this week on “objective reasonableness.” Here’s the introduction: The video is no less horrifying for being familiar: a young black man surrounded by about 20 police officers, nearly all of them
Powerful piece by Ta-Nehisi Coates on America and black bodies: When Abraham Lincoln declared, in 1863, that the battle of Gettysburg must ensure “that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth,”
From Climate Law Blog, disturbing news about a “recently passed Wyoming law now criminalizes certain kinds of data collection: specifically, unauthorized collection of natural resource data.” Here’s an excerpt: The new Wyoming Senate Enrolled Act No. 61 outlaws the
A great piece in Slate on the heroic efforts of Systemic Justice Project Board of Advisor member Alec Karakatsanis to tackle incarceration of people unable to pay money bail: For Karakatsanis, co-founder of the nonprofit civil rights organization Equal Justice Under Law,
From Harvard Law Today: Mandating that police wear body-worn cameras can help to improve relations between police and communities, and ensure greater accountability for police actions. But these requirements must be carefully and thoughtfully implemented within a much wider set