The Systemic Justice Project will host the first annual Systemic Justice Conference at Harvard Law School on Friday, April 10, 2015. More details to follow.
Legal Education
Below is a letter signed by 322 members of the faculty and staff of Harvard Law School. January 5, 2015 An Open Letter to the Harvard Law School Community, We, as faculty and staff of Harvard Law School, have been
Our colleagues Charles J. Ogletree Jr. and David J. Harris recently wrote an op-ed for the Boston Globe. As students trickle back to school and all of us consider how we want 2015 to be different from 2014, we thought
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:
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 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
In the spring of 2014, Jon Hanson surveyed students registered for his corporations class, before the semester began, to get a sense of how they felt about the most pressing policy problems, whether they were being addressed or would be