Tag: Civil Liberties

In a seminal empirical study, David Baldus et al. showed that capital defendants were 4.3 times more likely to be sentenced to death when accused of killing a white victim rather than a black victim. In a new study updating Baldus’s data by looking at whom states actually executed, Professors Scott Phillips and Justin Marceau […]

This coming spring will see the publication of the Harvard Civil Rights – Civil Liberties Law Review’s (CR-CL) 55th volume. To celebrate more than a half-century of pushing the bounds of legal scholarship, we are holding a 55th anniversary conference at Harvard Law School on March 6-7, 2020 in Langdell Hall North, Room 225. We […]

Professor Margaret Montoya (HLS ’78), a renowned Critical Race Theory (CRT) scholar and the first Latina graduate of HLS, will present about the history of CRT with a particular focus on theory, praxis, student and scholar activism, and futures of CRT. This event is intended to introduce students to CRT as well as provide a […]

The Arts and Culture Caucus, and Crimson Poets Society at HKS invite you to an Open Mic Night on Monday, November 18th, 8pm focused on the theme of belonging, and emceed by Professor Tim McCarthy. The theme can be interpreted liberally and we welcome performances in any medium – poetry, storytelling, dance, music, a scene, […]

FEATURING MARTIN GARBUS TO DISCUSS HIS BOOK DETAILING DIRTY POLITICS, SECRET DIPLOMACY, AND THE TRIAL OF THE CUBAN FIVE RSVP Here! During his distinguished career, Martin Garbus has established himself as a well-known trial lawyer representing the likes of Daniel Ellsberg and Leonard Peltier. But there is no story Garbus wants to tell more than […]

Have you written a paper on a civil rights or civil liberties issue? Publish it as a student note in CR-CL! Come to our short information session to learn about the process before the submission deadline of Monday, October 28, 2019. Pizza will be served.

The annual Law and Social Change Program of Study’s retreat will take place on Sunday, September 29th from 11am – 3pm at Wasserstein Hall. The retreat is a community-building event for students, faculty, staff and former deans to welcome 1Ls and LLMs interested in the power of law as a tool for social change, and […]

The Harvard Immigration Project proud to host “Total and Complete Shutdown: A Panel Discussion on Trump v. Hawaii, and the Travel Ban”. This will be a panel discussion on the current administration’s so called “travel ban” . This panel will facilitate a critical dialogue that touches upon the political climate which gave rise to this […]

For the 3rd Annual Trial Reenactment, we will be telling the story of Fred Korematsu and his fight for justice. This year marks the 75th anniversary of the Supreme Court decision in Korematsu v. United States and the 100th anniversary of Fred Korematsu’s birthday (January 30, 1919). This event is affiliated with the Harvard APALSA […]

This conference will explore the ways in which contemporary notions of disability are linked to concepts of citizenship and belonging. Leaders in advocacy, education, medicine, and politics will consider how ideas of community at the local, national, and international levels affect the understanding of and policies related to disability. Register online.

Come join us for a healing event to honor survivors of sexual assault and provide a safe, healing space for the HLS community following the difficult events of the last few weeks surrounding the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings.

Titled “Fighting the (Q)arceral State,” the conference aims to educate our community about the complex role of queer people in incarceration; open the space of the law school to voices actively critiquing the legal system from critical race, intersectional, queer, and/or feminist frameworks, and build political energy for anti-prison activism. We are inviting activists, academics, […]

Titled “Fighting the (Q)arceral State,” the conference aims to educate our community about the complex role of queer people in incarceration; open the space of the law school to voices actively critiquing the legal system from critical race, intersectional, queer, and/or feminist frameworks, and build political energy for anti-prison activism. We are inviting activists, academics, […]

Homelessness Coalition Info Session Sept. 19 | 12:00pm | WCC 1023 Come learn more about the intersection of homelessness and criminal justice! The Homelessness Coalition (HoCo) facilitates legal externships with the defense attorney of the Cambridge Homeless Court – externs assist him in advocating for clients on criminal matters and linking clients with social services. […]

Join the Harvard Law Students for Reproductive Justice for a talk by professor, author, and activist Khiara Bridges, entitled “The Intersections of Class and Race: Imagining an Ethnography of the Reproductive Lives of Class-Privileged Women of Color”

Join the Journal of Law and Technology to watch the livestream of Mark Zuckerberg’s Congressional testimony about the Facebook & Cambridge Analytica scandal. Zuckerberg will be testfying before the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees on April 10 at 2:15pm and before the the House Energy and Commerce Committee on April 11 at 10am. JOLT will […]

The very meaning of citizenship at local, national, and global levels is in flux in most countries and continents. More than 65 million human beings are currently displaced from their homes, while even in countries where armed conflict is not prevalent, separatist and nationalist movements have reshaped policy. Gender—in all its forms—is essential to any […]

The Lesbians of Color Symposium (LOCS) Collective , Inc. – a nonprofit grassroots organization dedicated to building community and cultivating resources for LBTQ+ women of color – will present New England’s 6th Annual Lesbians of Color Symposium (LOCS), “Involve to Evolve: ‘Your silence will not protect you’ ” at Harvard Law School on March 9 […]

This capstone event will bring together representatives from the most innovative and dynamic programs in the country to testify to the range, scope, and depth of prison education. We will highlight the work that has been done at Harvard, and where we can go from here. MICHELLE JONES New York University Prison Education Program GARRETT […]

Mr. Greco is former President of the American Bar Association and a former commercial litigation partner at the global law firm K&L Gates, LLP. He is Visiting Professor of the Practice of Law at Peking University School of Transnational Law in Shenzhen, China, where he teaches international criminal law, and he is Chair of the […]