Divest Harvard is currently staging a sit-in in Harvard’s Administration building in Mass Hall. Here is the Boston Globe coverage and here is the statement from Divest Harvard. There are extremely strong resonances with the event that just happened, announced in the previous blog post,
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Kimberlé Crenshaw will lead a symposium about race, legal education and justice in the wake of the events in Ferguson. The even is sponsored and organized by Harvard Students for Inclusion and co-sponsored by La Alianza, APALSA, BLSA, MLSA, NLG,
Below are excerpts from Courtney Humphries’s superb Boston Globe article about the Systemic Justice Project at Harvard Law School (cartoon by Sam Washburn and photo by Justin Saglio, both for the Globe): From the first day, it’s clear that law
The Systemic Justice Project will host the first annual Systemic Justice Conference at Harvard Law School on Friday, April 10, 2015. More details to follow.
A conference exploring the intersections between social, economic, and environmental justice and the food system March 28–29, 2015 Just Food? will explore the legal, policy, health, and environmental aspects of modern domestic and international food systems, with a focus on
From Harvard Gazette: While U.S. Supreme Court opinions are routinely examined through the political lens of the court’s nine justices, far less is known about the ideological makeup of the thousands of judges on the nation’s federal and state benches.
From The Daily Climate: President Lyndon Baines Johnson, in a February 8, 1965 special message to Congress warned about build-up of the invisible air pollutant that scientists recognize today as the primary contributor to global warming. “Air pollution is no
A fascinating piece on heroin addiction in US troops in Vietnam, and the strength of evidence that our environment affects our behavior. The article reports on the incredibly low relapse rate among US soldiers who reported being addicted to heroin while
SJP friend, Enumale Agada, has written a superb post about “Sidney Poitier, Mike Brown, and the Myth of Black Exceptionalism” on her blog, Celluloid in Black and White. Here’s a brief excerpt. . . . . What exactly is the