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December 7
Thursday
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Young, Vulnerable, and Betrayed: What can be done to help America’s most vulnerable children?
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
A child born in America today has a 37% chance of having their welfare investigated by the state by the time they turn 18. For black children, the probability rises to 53%. Over next 18 years, 145 million American children will be referred to child protective services. What does this… -
Law, Regions, and Ports: Toward Imagining Alternative Futures
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
This event is a space for cross-disciplinary thinking about the multi-valent concepts of territory, law, and infrastructure in a world of multiple “crises,” with an eye toward design logics for alternative futures. The broader workshop panels take ports as a heuristic that is particularly amenable to comparative socio-legal inquiry inviting…
December 8
Friday
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Law, Regions, and Ports: Toward Imagining Alternative Futures
9:00 am - 5:30 pm
This event is a space for cross-disciplinary thinking about the multi-valent concepts of territory, law, and infrastructure in a world of multiple “crises,” with an eye toward design logics for alternative futures. The broader workshop panels take ports as a heuristic that is particularly amenable to comparative socio-legal inquiry inviting…
December 12
Tuesday
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Aligning Criminal Practice with Addiction Science
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Drawing on the science of substance use disorders (SUD), this presentation will focus on legal responses to SUD that contradict neuroscience and behavioral research, such as incarcerating individuals on probation following a relapse. Implications for bail, sentencing, probation, and parole will be discussed as well as client-centered considerations. The presentation… -
CMS Guidance on Addressing Health-Related Social Needs in Medicaid and CHIP: Policy and Potential Implications
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
WEBINAR On November 16, 2023, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released new guidance detailing the coverage pathways for services and supports to address health-related social needs (HRSN) services, such as housing and nutrition interventions, in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP). This guidance responds to… -
Free Speech, Political Speech, and Hate Speech on Campus
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
In today’s fraught political and societal climate, Harvard Radcliffe Institute will host an interdisciplinary panel to discuss the purposes and scope of academic freedom and the legal norms that govern how universities respond to conflict and protest. The program will integrate concerns about antisemitism, Islamophobia, and other identity-based hatreds—issues that…
December 13
Wednesday
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War in Ukraine: Where We Are Now
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Speaker:
Alexandra Vacroux
Executive Director, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, Harvard University The war in Ukraine has lasted 18 months, with no end in sight. What has been the impact on Ukraine? What is happening in Russia—is the economy really booming and are the Russian people…