March 26, 2020
Jon Hanson & Jacob Lipton, the co-founders of the Systemic Justice Project, have recently published their article, Occupy Justice: Introducing the Injustice Framework in Volume 15 of The Harvard Law & Policy Review. You can download the article on SSRN and
Friends of Systemic Justice Project will want to read Tala Alfoqaha’s excellent new article on The [F]law examining how private companies incentivize public police to prioritize property over people. The article asks: What happens when the state’s monopoly on violence,
Adriel Williams’s powerful new article on The [F]law looks at how prison telecommunications company Securus tears families apart with its astronomically high fees and costs. One million incarcerated people must use Securus products to call and email their families, but
The [F]law's Article on Threat of Private Interests to Native Children, Land, and Tribal Sovereignty
Private interests are looking to profit off of Native children and land by overturning 40 years of celebrated child welfare policy. This could lead to the end of tribal sovereignty as we know it. Read Maggie Hagen’s article on The
Anna Bowers’s compelling and revealing new article on The [F]law looks at a controversial police technology company that deploys money, influence, and secrecy to benefit its bottom line at the expense of communities that it claims to make “safer.” What
This paper argues that the material and metaphysical violence levied against Black and Indigenous peoples in the United States form the foundation of modern corporations and “the corporation” as such. By analyzing corporations’ basic building blocks—capital, property, and land—and their
In St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, a twice-bankrupt oil refinery is poised to reopen despite a record of environmental disasters. Residents are fighting to protect their health and get a say in their island’s economic future. Read Alicia Keyes’s brilliant
The private probation industry is broken. Low-income people are placed under the supervision of private probation companies solely due to their inability to pay a court fine. From there, they are routinely charged hundreds or thousands of dollars in fees
Unhealthy diets are extremely common in America, and they directly affect people’s health and wellbeing. Most people assume that poor diets are driven entirely by poor choices, but this narrative does not adequately account for the role of “Big Food”—the
Corporate law and corporate power insulate private correctional owners, operators, and contractors from essential monitoring, oversight, and accountability. The macro scripts that have legitimated the alliance between “private” and “public” actors within the criminal law and carceral sector demonstrate
Corporate Racial Justice Washing: Explaining Corporate America's coalition with racism's meta script
“Blackout Tuesday” featured abnormal corporate responses to the murder of George Floyd. Specifically, Fortune 500 companies made statements that expressed their alleged support of the black community and a belief that black lives matter. This critique aims to explain this
This paper seeks to contextualize the history of corporations by revealing its ties to slavery and the cotton industry in the early nineteenth century. By revealing the ways corporations legitimized racial hierarchies, we better equip ourselves to addressing modern-day instances
Since the 1980s, there has been an expansion of federal, state, and local law authorizing eviction for criminal activity. This growing body of carceral housing law fostered a system of tenant screening, monitoring, and marking that replicates the harms of
This paper focuses exclusively on the adverse effects redlining practices have had throughout Black communities in the Central District. Furthermore, it discusses how corporate power—through the emergence of multinational tech companies in Seattle—and corporate legal structures exacerbate issues of instability
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
This is a republication of a post originally posted on December 26th 2014: 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