[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zORE_u00rg0&feature=youtu.be] February 12, 2015 – at Harvard Law School – Students for Inclusion Event (“Law School Matters: Reassessing Legal Education Post-Ferguson” Conference) speakers include Dan Coquillette, Kim Crenshaw, Phil Lee, and Victoria White-Mason
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From Climate Law Blog, disturbing news about a “recently passed Wyoming law now criminalizes certain kinds of data collection: specifically, unauthorized collection of natural resource data.” Here’s an excerpt: The new Wyoming Senate Enrolled Act No. 61 outlaws the
A great piece in Slate on the heroic efforts of Systemic Justice Project Board of Advisor member Alec Karakatsanis to tackle incarceration of people unable to pay money bail: For Karakatsanis, co-founder of the nonprofit civil rights organization Equal Justice Under Law,
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
From LA Times (an article by Teresa Watanabe about impressive work of former student, Annie Hudson-Price (above left)): In a groundbreaking effort to address a key underlying cause of poor academic performance, students who have suffered from violence and other
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
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.
16 April 1963 My Dear Fellow Clergymen: While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities “unwise and untimely.” Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas.
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
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