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
Less than 9% of plastic is recycled, causing devastating effects on our environment. In fact, plastics recycling was popularized by the plastics industry, which knowingly promoted a recycling system they knew was doomed to fail in order to avoid accountability
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
The Problem of Corporate Political Spending on the Governors Associations
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
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
Gun control proposals in the United States overwhelmingly focus on regulating individuals: background checks, criminal penalties, storage regulations, and the like. But the problem of gun violence is not a problem of “bad” people: it is a systemic public health
Corporations have captured the United States’ redistricting process and are bankrolling partisan efforts to gerrymander electoral districts across the country. This paper offers an in-depth look at gerrymandering, its devastating consequences for democracy, and how corporate power power has increased systematic disenfranchisement and led