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At today’s Black Lives Matter Conference events at Harvard Law School, Naomi Murakawa gave an amazing keynote based on her new book, ‘”The First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America,” which, based on her lecture, we highly recommend. In
Saturday’s Agenda: Location: Wasserstein Hall, Harvard Law School 9am-9:45am Continental Breakfast 10am-5pm Panel Discussions 10am-11:15am Black Health Matters 11:15am-11:30am Snacks 11:30am-12:45pm Black Activism Matters 1pm-2pm Lunch Keynote Speaker: Dr. Naomi Murakawa, Associate Professor of African American Studies at Princeton University and Author
These are not my finest two photos (I blame the moving train), but I saw this on the T today and couldn’t help wondering what kind of people we are trying to attract into the police force, and what kind
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
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
Last week a South Carolina judge took the unprecedented step of vacating the 1944 conviction of a black 14-year-old boy, the youngest person executed in the United States in the past century, on the grounds that he, George Stinney, Jr.,
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
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