Audience: 3L

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October 31 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

“What can forgiveness achieve in this age of resentment? A towering and beloved figure in legal scholarship, Martha Minow explores the complicated intersection between law, justice, and forgiveness, asking whether law should encourage individuals to forgive and when should the courts, public officials, and specific laws forgive? Minow examines these questions through sometimes- troubling cases— […]

Announcement

May 23, 2019
We strongly encourage you to apply for any fellowship that may help you reach the work you are excited about. Because many fellowships require you to pursue a project with a host organization, however, and because some fellowships have very early deadlines, it is important to begin preparing NOW for your fellowship search.

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September 16 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Transparency in Health and Health Care in the United States: Law and Ethics (Holly Fernandez Lynch, I. Glenn Cohen, Carmel Shachar & Barbara J. Evans, eds., (Cambridge Univ. Press, Apr. 30, 2019). “Transparency is a concept that is becoming increasingly lauded as a solution to a host of problems in the American health care system. […]

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October 8 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Taiwan and International Human Rights: A Story of Transformation (Jerome A. Cohen, William P. Alford & Chang-Fa Lo eds., Springer June 8, 2019). “This book tells a story of Taiwan’s transformation from an authoritarian regime to a democratic system where human rights are protected as required by international human rights treaties. There were difficult times […]

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November 14 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

They Don’t Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy by Lawrence Lessig (Harper Collins, Nov. 5, 2019). “With insight and urgency, Harvard law professor and author of the bestselling Republic, Lost Lawrence Lessig argues that our government does not represent us and shows that reform is both essential and possible. America’s democracy is in crisis. Along many […]

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September 25 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Fidelity & Constraint: How the Supreme Court Has Read the American Constitution by Lawrence Lessig (Oxford Univ. Press May 1, 2019). “The fundamental fact about our Constitution is that it is old — the oldest written constitution in the world. The fundamental challenge for interpreters of the Constitution is how to read that old document […]

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November 13 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Elizabeth Papp Kamali, Felony and the Guilty Mind in Medieval England (Cambridge Univ. Press, Oct. 31, 2019). This book explores the role of mens rea, broadly defined as a factor in jury assessments of guilt and innocence from the early thirteenth through the fourteenth century – the first two centuries of the English criminal trial […]

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November 5 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Equity and Law: Fusion and Fission (John C.P. Goldberg, Henry E. Smith & P.G. Turner eds., Cambridge Univ. Press, Nov. 2019). “The fusion of law and equity in common law systems was a crucial moment in the development of the modern law. Common law and equity were historically the two principal sources of rules and […]

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October 3 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

“It is no longer controversial that the American political system has become deeply dysfunctional. Today, only slightly more than a quarter of Americans believe the country is heading in the right direction, while sixty-three percent believe we are on a downward slope. The top twenty words used to describe the past year include “chaotic,” “turbulent,” […]

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May 16 @ 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

On the 65th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, U.S. public schools and neighborhoods are more racially segregated than they have been in decades, while the country’s racial wealth gap continues to widen. These patterns of residential segregation and grossly disparate median net worth are equally present and urgent in Boston on the 45th […]

May 10, 2019
The Justice Collaborative (TJC), a non-profit conducting research and proposing innovative solutions to long standing problems in the criminal justice system led by HLS alums, is launching a volunteer task force to hold district attorneys accountable. Student research volunteers can start mid-May working at least four hours per week, which can be done where and when they please, and the work will continue throughout 2020.

Learn more and apply.