I want to comment on the relevance of history for understanding ourselves and our institutions today, using two case studies, both responses to the material in Dan Coquillette’s new book on the history of Harvard Law School, On the Battlefield of Merit. The
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[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOrhuBiAOpo] On February 12 and 13, 2015, Professor Crenshaw made three outstanding, public presentations at Harvard Law School — at events organized by Harvard Law School’s Students for Inclusion. All three talks are compiled talks in this video. In the
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_dHa5iZPCg] February 13, 2015 – at Harvard Law School – Students for Inclusion Event (“Law School Matters: Reassessing Legal Education Post-Ferguson” Conference). The title of this event, featuring keynote presentations by Professors Peller and Crenshaw, was “Law School or Justice
[youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE8wG89_Jkw] February 12, 2015 – at Harvard Law School – Students for Inclusion Event (“Law School Matters: Reassessing Legal Education Post-Ferguson” Conference) speakers include Duncan Kennedy, Kim Crenshaw, Gary Peller, and Aziza Ahmed.
[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
For more information, see the conference website or the facebook page.
The Systemic Justice Project’s inaugural Systemic Justice Conference at Harvard Law School is less than two weeks away and is shaping up to be an amazing day. More details to come.
Yesterday afternoon Radio Boston’s Meghna Chakrabarti interviewed Jon Hanson and Jacob Lipton, the Co-Directors of the Systemic Justice Project, in a story they titled “Harvard Law Flips Legal Education on its Head with ‘Systemic Justice.'” Listen to the interview here. Here
Kimberlé Crenshaw will lead a symposium about race, legal education and justice in the wake of the events in Ferguson. The even is sponsored and organized by Harvard Students for Inclusion and co-sponsored by La Alianza, APALSA, BLSA, MLSA, NLG,
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