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
Criminal Justice
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,
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
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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Saturday’s Agenda: Location: Wasserstein Hall, Harvard Law School 9am-9:45am Continental Breakfast 10am-5pm Panel Discussions 10am-11:15am Black Health Matters 11:15am-11:30am Snacks 11:30am-12:45pm Black Activism Matters 1pm-2pm Lunch Keynote Speaker: Dr. Naomi Murakawa, Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and Author
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.,