From the Boston Globe, an op-ed by SJP friends David Harris and Johanna Wald (Managing Director and Director of Strategic Planning and Development of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice) : On June 5, 1947, Secretary of
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From the St. Louis American, an article about Blake Strode, one of our former students (now a SJ alum), who is leaving HLS to work for systemic justice with the Arch City Defenders: As a student at Harvard Law School,
Emily Broad Leib has not only been a great friend and supporter of the Systemic Justice Project, she’s been working on systemic justice issues for several years as cofounder and director of Harvard Law School’s Food Law and Policy Clinic.
Great news for Alec Karakatsanis (a member of our Board) and a step toward justice in Velda City, Missouri. From St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Velda City can no longer jail people in lieu of cash bail for municipal offenses, a practice
From LA Times (an article by Teresa Watanabe about impressive work of former student, Annie Hudson-Price (above left)): In a groundbreaking effort to address a key underlying cause of poor academic performance, students who have suffered from violence and other
Denise Robbins wrote an excellent post for Media Matters about how industry-funded climate-change deniers accuse other scientists of being corrupted. Here’s a sample: Right-wing media are promoting the myth that scientists who agree with the consensus of human-caused climate change
Dick Dahl for Harvard Law Today reported on the April 10th Systemic Justice Conference with the headline “Systemic Justice: At a Harvard Law School conference, students reimagine the role of lawyers in addressing societal problems”. The full text is here: Last year, HLS Professor
Alec Karakatsanis (one our SJP advisers) has just published an article on the the Harvard Law Review Forum (pdf here). It’s a powerful piece, and you’ll want to read it all. Here’s the opening paragraph: It did not surprise me
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On Monday April 6th, JLG will present a panel entitled “Inclusion In Name Only: Feminism, Immigration, and the Asian American Experience” about sexualization and the immigration process. Speakers will include professor Stewart Chang and visiting professors Jennifer Chacón and Noa