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
Criminal Justice
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:
Shane Bauer writes about an Atlantic article on life in prisons that neglects to interview a single prisoner. Perhaps it is the way we dehumanize prisoners as a group that allows journalists to avoid seeing how unacceptable it is to neglect their side
From an article by Tyler S. Olkowski, for The Crimson: Nearly half of the Harvard Law School student body signed an open letter to President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder in the wake of recent grand jury decisions
From Amnesty International (includes a link): . . . The recent spate of incidents of lethal force used against men of color by law enforcement from New York to Los Angeles has once again demonstrated the need to take a
A recently released Pew Study (from August) found that blacks and whites have sharply different reactions to the police shooting of an unarmed teen in Ferguson, Mo., and the protests and violence that followed. Blacks are about twice as likely