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
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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
Vanessa A. Bee, Alec Karakatsanis, Sam Rosen, & Jay Willis at Harvard Law School participated in the panel about law, lawyering, and journalism as part of the launch of The [F]law on February 10, 2022. The panel was moderated by
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,
Ralph Nader gave inspiring keynote remarks to students at Harvard Law School at the launch of The [F]law on February 10, 2022. Here’s the video:
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
Jon Hanson delivered a “last lecture” calling upon graduating Harvard Law students to recommit to their “childhood dreams of justice.” “[Y]ou exist at an unbelievable moment in history,” he told students. “They happen every 50 years: a moment when the
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
Corporate power and corporate law are core underlying causes of both environmental degredation and environmental injustice. This paper investigates how corporate law encourages corporations to pursue shareholder profit, no matter the cost to people or the planet. Relying on profit