Events at Hauser Hall; 102 Malkin Classroom

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Join us for an engaging discussion with Margareta Matache, featuring her recently published book The Permanence of Anti-Roma Racism (Un)uttered Sentences. Matache situates anti-Roma racism within national and intra-continental histories and global scholarship, exploring its specific and universal underpinnings and manifestations and its interconnectedness with other systems of oppression. The Permanence of Anti-Roma Racism offers a theoretical perspective on the roots […]

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Join the Harvard International Law Journal and the Human Rights and Business Association for a movie night featuring The Constant Gardener! The film follows a British diplomat investigating the death of his wife in Kenya, uncovering a conspiracy involving pharmaceutical testing and corporate misconduct. Along the way, it touches on themes of international law, corporate […]

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How did feminist lawyers and activists transform the legal and public health response to the AIDS epidemic? What does it mean to “trust the science”? And what is the relationship among law, science, and politics? Join Professor Glenn Cohen in conversation with Professor Aziza Ahmed, author of the new book Risk and Resistance: How Feminists […]

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Join the Harvard Space Law Society and the Harvard African Students Society as we welcome Mr. Gaspard Twagirayezu, Chief Executive Officer of the Rwanda Space Agency, for an inspiring discussion on Africa’s growing presence in space.

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Discussions about courts in democratically backsliding and fully autocratic contexts usually focus on two aspects: their co-optation and instrumentalization by authoritarian actors, and their role in defending human rights and the rule of law. The role of courts in providing the intellectual scaffolding of legality to authoritarianism, or in offering rational justifications for authoritarian transitions, […]