The Brennan Center for Justice, the American Constitution Society, and Justice at Stake invite you to: Democracy and Our State Courts: Fighting Back After Citizens United Tuesday, January 13, 2015 12:00 p.m. – 2 p.m. (Lunch will be served) location:
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There have been several interesting items published recently on risk and inequality. First, a piece by Dillow making the point that workers often take bigger financial risks than investors Better Capital’s stake in the firm took the firm of a secured loan,
Below is a letter signed by 322 members of the faculty and staff of Harvard Law School. January 5, 2015 An Open Letter to the Harvard Law School Community, We, as faculty and staff of Harvard Law School, have been
Our colleagues Charles J. Ogletree Jr. and David J. Harris recently wrote an op-ed for the Boston Globe. As students trickle back to school and all of us consider how we want 2015 to be different from 2014, we thought
Last week concluded Sarah Koenig’s captivating 12-week podcast, Serial, which will go down as one of the things many of us remember most about 2014 and about the workings of our criminal law system. Also in 2014, the criminal law
Last week a South Carolina judge took the unprecedented step of vacating the 1944 conviction of a black 14-year-old boy, the youngest person executed in the United States in the past century, on the grounds that he, George Stinney, Jr.,
HLS students Shakeer Rahman and Sam Barr explain how law’s individualist focus prevents it from tackling systemic injustices: The Supreme Court overturned this order by one vote. The court explained that Mr. Lyons would have needed to prove that he personally
A great piece by HLS Professor Bruce Hay on the silence of lawyers in the face of our two-tiered criminal justice system: As another grand jury has let a cop walk away for gratuitously killing an unarmed black man, a
From Today’s Boston Globe: IN THE wake of the recent grand jury decisions in Ferguson and Staten Island, outrage and despair are reverberating across the nation, including at the law schools where we teach. Many of our students are struggling
Some photos from a HLS student project in which last words of victims of police violence are posted over faculty photographs in Wasserstein Hall: