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
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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
Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens Martin Gilens and Benjamin I. Page (2014). Perspectives on Politics, Volume 12, Issue 03, September 2014 pp 564-581 Abstract: Each of four theoretical traditions in the study of American
From Dig Boston: Rebecca Chapman, HLS ’15, who went to Ferguson in October, notes that, “despite what we are taught in law school, the law is not neutral; lawyers and law students have a unique perspective on the reality that