Upcoming Events

“Climate change is not a tragedy, it’s a crime.” Could this increasingly common refrain among climate activists be more than just a slogan? Years of reporting show that fossil fuel companies like ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell, and BP knew their business

Past Events

The Most Dangerous Branch: Court Capture, Why It Matters, What Can Be Done About It 1/26 – 1/27/24 at Harvard Law School.   This year’s conference will focus on the harmful effects of corporate interests on the judiciary (federal and

The Seventh Annual Tortys are to be held in The Torty Theater on this Thursday, 11/16/23. As one student described The Tortys last year: “The event is a peculiar blend of an awards ceremony, talent show, dance party, and community

Systemic Justice Teach-Ins: Building Power to Challenge Injustice Cop City – Organizing for Justice (Oct. 21, 2023) “Organizing is the slow work of building power by building a base, bringing people together, developing their leadership, identifying community problems together and

As part of the Boston University Law School’s Public Interest Retreat, Jon Hanson will join Abbye Ognibene, a plaintiffs’ attorney at Hagens Berman and Ian McCoughlin, a litigator at Shapiro, Haber & Urmy on a panel discussing plaintiff’s side lawyering.  Boston University’s

Systemic Justice Teach-Ins: Building Power to Challenge Injustice East Palestine – Storytelling for Justice (September, 23 2023) Participants: Christopher and Jessica Albright, from East Palestine, Ohio. Read Emily Baumgaertner’s compelling story of the Albright family, who are coping with the

Systemic Justice Teach-Ins: Building Power to Challenge Injustice 1. East Palestine – Storytelling for Justice (September, 23 2023) Participants: Christopher and Jessica Albright, from East Palestine, Ohio. Read Emily Baumgaertner’s compelling story of the Albright family, who are coping with

Join Blake Strode and Oren Nimni on building power and systemic justice lawyering.

Tuesday 5th September 2023, Jon Hanson and Dean Strang will be remotely co-presenting their paper, “Injustice Backlash: Deploying ‘Injustice’ to Thwart Justice” at the one-day conference at the University of Worcester in the UK. The conference seeks to explore key

Jon Hanson will deliver Earth Day presentation at Saint Andrew’s School on Friday, April 28, 2023. The talk, titled “Systems Pollution,” compared and connected pollution of the environmental ecosystems with contamination of other systems — informational, institutional, and legal. Below

Join us for a lunch talk about how The New York Times broke the story of pervasive sexual abuse by Harvey Weinstein—ending decades of silence and empowering the #MeToo movement.

Come hear: JAY WILLIS (Balls & Strikes) MARK JOSEPH STERN (Slate) RHIANNON HAMAM (5-4 Podcast) April 3, 6:00 PM WCC 2009 The roundtable discussion will examine the state of legal journalism and how current law students can make a difference.

Derecka Purnell will speak to interested members of the Harvard Law School community about the journey to “becoming abolitionists,” including the pivotal years she spent at Harvard Law School.  

The [F]law is an online magazine that shares stories that reveal how corporate law and power create social problems and systemic injustices.

The Systemic Justice Project is hosting a zoom webinar series on "Systemic Lawyering in Times of Crisis" on Tuesdays from 12-1pm EST. The series features systemically-oriented justice-seeking lawyers and activists in fields most affected by our latest crisis: housing, immigration, disability,

The Systemic Justice Project will be hosting a summit that will bring together justice-minded lawyers and non-lawyers engaged with the legal system to discuss priorities, strategies, cases, and opportunities for collaboration on a wide range of issues -- from immigration

Forum on Land use, rights and ecology A conference exploring LAND AND THE FOOD SYSTEM: HOW LAND AFFECTS WHAT WE EAT, WHO WE ARE, AND THE ENVIRONMENT WE LIVE IN.

The fifth and final session of the Criminal Justice Program's Race, Place, & Policing: What Can We Learn From Baltimore series (cosponsored by the Systemic Justice Project) is this Monday, Feb 29th, 2016 at 5:30pm in WCC2009. The session will feature

The fourth session of the Criminal Justice Program of Study, Research and Advocacy's series on Race, Place and Policing: What we can Learn from Baltimore is tomorrow! Andrés Alonso, Professor of Practice at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and

Unbound: Harvard Journal of the Legal Left and the HLS Modern Money Network are hosting an event this Friday at noon in WCC1019 called Beyond Sanders and Clinton: Visionary Futures for Democratic Economics. February 19, 2016, 12 pm.

Join advocates and experts for a thoughtful discussion about state courts and the fight to keep them fair and impartial.