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Tomiko Brown-Nagin
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An attorney who was instrumental in the landmark school desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education and other federal civil rights cases also argued in…
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On the 70th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, experts at Harvard Law School discussed the future of racial justice at the inaugural Belinda Sutton Symposium.
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Experts at a Radcliffe event weigh whether ‘institutional neutrality’ is best way to encourage academic freedom and safeguard a core mission.
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The core mission of any university depends on the ability of students, faculty members, and researchers to follow questions where they lead without an institutional…
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UND hosts Harvard professor in celebration of Martin Luther King Jr.
January 16, 2024
Harvard law professor Tomiko Brown-Nagin spoke at a Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration at the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks. Brown-Nagin is…
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Finding right mix on campus speech policies
December 15, 2023
The central question facing the nation’s college and universities, which have been roiled by protests since the deadly surprise Oct. 7 attack by Hamas on…
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Finding the right mix on campus speech policies
December 15, 2023
Legal and political scholars discuss balancing personal safety, constitutional rights, and academic freedom amid roiling protests and cultural shifts.
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Free Speech on Campus
December 14, 2023
On Tuesday evening, one week after the Congressional hearing that prompted demands for President Claudine Gay’s dismissal and less than 12 hours after Harvard Corporation…
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Harvard Law Professor Tomiko Brown-Nagin Honored with Prestigious Order of the Coif Book Award
December 7, 2023
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School, has received the…
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Faculty honored for recent work, career achievements
December 6, 2023
Several Harvard Law faculty members have received accolades for their work and lifelong scholarship and achievements in recent months.
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Tomiko Brown-Nagin receives Order of the Coif book award
December 5, 2023
Tomiko Brown-Nagin, dean of the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the Daniel P.S. Paul Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School, received the 2023 the Order of the Coif award for her book “Civil Rights Queen: Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality.”
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Charles Ogletree Jr. : 1952-2023
August 5, 2023
Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. ‘78, or Tree, as he was affectionately known, the celebrated, influential, and beloved Harvard Law professor and civil rights scholar, died peacefully on August 4 in his home in Odenton, Maryland, from the natural progression of Alzheimer's disease.
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Radcliffe Parole Reform Panel Features Rapper
May 3, 2023
Five years after his high-profile release from prison, Grammy-nominated rapper Meek Mill spoke at Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute about reforming the American parole system. Mill joined…
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Ophelia Dahl to receive 2023 Radcliffe Medal
March 9, 2023
Ophelia Dahl, the internationally recognized health care and social justice advocate and one of the founders of Partners In Health, will receive the prestigious Radcliffe…
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Change the Senate
November 30, 2022
Many analysts and citizens believe that the Constitution, more than 230 years old, is out of touch with contemporary America. We asked the scholars Danielle…
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Enshrine an affirmative right to vote
November 21, 2022
Tomiko Brown-Nagin argues that a Constitutional amendment enshrining the right to vote would demonstrate ‘absolute commitment’ to full participation in U.S. democracy.
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The Civil Rights Queen and Her Court
July 16, 2022
Tomiko Brown-Nagin’s book recounts the remarkable — and too little-known — life and achievements of civil rights lawyer and judge Constance Baker Motley
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Reckoning with a Painful Legacy
July 14, 2022
Harvard issues a report on the university’s connections to slavery and its long history of discrimination against Black people long after slavery was abolished by the 13th Amendment.