On Friday\, April 17\, 2026\, Harvard CR-CL will honor our founding members’ vision by hosting a 60th Anniversary Symposium. Our theme —Building Bridges or Borders? Community\, Citizenship\, and Civil R ights in an Age of Authoritarianism— responds to the state’s rapid ly accelerating violations of the civil rights and civil liberties of non-c itizens and U.S. citizens alike. Our speakers will explore these dimensions through the lens of immigration law enforcement. They hail from the ACLU S tate Supreme Court Initiative\; the City Council of Saint Paul\, Minnesota\ ; the University of Minnesota Law School\; Boston University School of Law\ ; Boston College Law School\; Harvard Law School\; and Rutgers Law School.< /p>
This Symposium is dedicated to the memory of Professor Spencer H. Boyer\, a co-founder of Harvard CR-CL\, who passed away in November 2025.
RSVP for the symposium. Attendance is limited to the Harvard community and invited guests.
Location: This event will take place in per son at Austin Hall\, Room 111 West\, from 9:30am to 4:00pm. Registration wi ll occur from 8:30 to 9:30am.:
Keynote Speaker: Cass Sunstein\, Robert Walmsley University Profe ssor at Harvard Law School
Featured Speakers:
- David Zimmer< /a>\, Partner at Zimmer\, Citron & Clarke and Lecturer at Harvard Law Schoo l
- Gerald Neuma n\, J. Sinclair Armstrong Professor of International\, Foreign\, and Co mparative Law at Harvard Law School
- Tiffany Lieu\, Clinical Instructor at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program
11:20–11:50 AM — Tribute to CR-CL Co-found er\, Prof. Spencer H. Boyer
12:20–1:20 PM — Panel #2: Triage and Transformation: The Role of Advo cacy in a Time of CrisisFeatured Speakers:
- Linus Chan\, James H. Binger Clinical Professor of Law and the faculty director of the Detainee Rights Clinic at Minnesota Law
- Sarah R. Sherman-Stokes\, Clinica l Associate Professor of Law and Associate Director of the Immigrants’ Righ ts & Human Trafficking Clinic at Boston University School of Law
- Zohra Ahmed\, Associate Profes sor at Boston University School of Law
1:30–2:30 PM — Panel #3: Executive Unleashed: The Trump Admini stration’s Assault on Immigration and Citizenship
Featured Speakers:
- Bijal Shah\, Professor and Prov ost Faculty Fellow at Boston College Law School
- Daniel Kanstroom\ , Professor of Law and Dean’s Distinguished Scholar at Boston College Law S chool
- Rose Cuison-Villazor\, Professor of Law and Chancellor’s Social Justice Scholar at Rutgers Law School
3:00–4:00 PM — Panel #4: L aboratories of Resistance: State Power\, Local Resistance\, and the Fractur ing of Citizenship
Featured Speakers:
- Jon Hanson\, Alan A. Stone Professor of Law and Director of the Systemic Ju stice Project at Harvard Law School
- Matthew Segal\, Co-Director of the ACLU’s State Supreme Court Init iative
- Molly Coleman\, Ward 4 Councilmember in St. Paul\, Minnesota
CATEGORIES:Conference/Symposium LOCATION:Austin 111 West GEO:0.000000;0.000000 ORGANIZER;CN="Nathalie Beauchamps":MAILTO:nbeauchamps@jd26.law.harvard.edu URL;VALUE=URI:https://hls.harvard.edu/events/harvard-civil-rights-civil-lib erties-law-review-60th-anniversary-symposium/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://hls.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/DRAFT-CR-CL-Symposium-Flyer-1-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 DTSTART:20260308T070000 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDARThis Symposium would not be possibl e without the support of Bloomberg Law\, the Harvard Law School Human Right s Program\, Lambda\, the West Coast Club\, the Plaintiffs Law Association\, the Harvard Black Law Students Association\, the Systemic Justice Project\ , and the Law and Social Change Program.
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If you have any questions or concerns\, please contact us at crcl@mail.law.harvard.edu. Attendance is limite d to the Harvard community and invited guests.
If you or an event participant requires disability-related accommodations\, please cont act Student Support Services in the Dean of Students Office (WCC 3039) at < a title="mailto:studentsupport@law.harvard.edu" href="mailto:studentsupport @law.harvard.edu" data-linkindex="17">studentsupport@law.harvard.edu or 617-495-1880.