Here’s the video for the fifth session, held on April 21st, focusing on the Criminal Legal System. The discussion was moderated by Jon Hanson and Jacob Lipton, Co-Directors of the Systemic Justice Project. The Panelists were: Judge Nancy Gertner, Senior Lecturer
Join this week’s “Systemic Lawyering in Times of Crisis” Webinar at: https://harvard.zoom.us/j/770662864. This week’s session (Tuesday, April 28, at 12pm EST) will focus on economic inequity in the time of COVID-19. Participants include: Chiraayu Gosrani, NYU Law ’22 Alyssa Peterson,
Here’s the video for the fourth session, held on April 14th, focusing on Immigration. The discussion was moderated by Jon Hanson and Jacob Lipton, Co-Directors of the Systemic Justice Project. The Panelists were: Lam Ho: Executive Director and Founder at Beyond Legal
From one of our systemic justice students, here is an illuminating website briefly describing capital punishment in America, focusing in particular in how inadequate representation disadvantages a large number of capital defendants and skews the system against them. Included is
The Systemic Justice Project is co-sponsoring the Harvard Kennedy School Conference on Poverty and Inequality. For more information, see below: On behalf of our conference planning committee, we’d like to invite you to the Conference on Poverty & Inequality. In light of
Great news from two friends of the Systemic Justice Project: A small city bordering Ferguson, Mo., has agreed to pay $4.7 million to compensate nearly 2,000 people who spent time in the city’s jail for not paying fines and fees
Systemic Justice Project friend, Jay Willis, has recently been writing with insight and wit about the problem of homelessness. This week, he published the following op-ed in Crosscut. *** In Seattle, the recent explosion in homelessness has transformed the issue into
In fall 2015 the Harvard Negotiation & Mediation Clinical Program (HNMCP), in collaboration with the Systemic Justice Project (SJP), launched a joint initiative for Harvard Law School (HLS) students called Real Talk – a series of small group facilitated dialogues
Systemic Justice Project alums Whitney Benns and Blake Strode have a powerful and vital piece in The Atlantic about 21st century debtors’ prisons in St. Louis, but really about systemic racism. They write: As the recent deluge of reports and litigation confirms,
By SJP Friend Jay Willis (reposted from Needs Further Review): With increasing frequency, students on college campuses across the country are forcing their old, proud, veritable institutions of higher education to think critically and honestly about the echoes of entrenched racism on their