Tag: Criminal Justice

In the fifteen years since the United States Supreme Court referred to developmental science in ruling the death penalty unconstitutional for juveniles in Roper v. Simmons, state and federal courts have seen a wave of neuroscience-informed juvenile justice litigation. But the full potential of neuroscience in juvenile justice has yet to be reached. This panel will discuss scientific and legal developments, and the new innovations they suggest at the intersection of neuroscience and juvenile justice.

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 […]

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 […]

Please join the Harvard Negotiation Law Review to kick off the journal’s 2019 Symposium. This year we will be exploring Restorative Justice in the U.S. criminal context as well as post-conflict contexts around the world. Dr. Carl Stauffer, an expert in Restorative Justice who has worked in the field for decades, will deliver this keynote presentation. […]

Please join ACS in welcoming Professor Anna Lvovsky for a discussion of the judicial presumption of police expertise. Prof. Lvovsky teaches the history of policing, criminal law, and evidence at HLS, and her scholarship includes the role of moral judgement in the Supreme Court’s Fourth Amendment jurisprudence. Her talk will include the chance for Q&A, […]

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, […]

Monday, October 15 12:00-1:00pm WCC B015 Lunch will be provided Books available for purchase Join the Center on the Legal Profession for a book talk with author and Yale Law School Professor Stephen Carter on the release of his new book, Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most […]

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. […]

Misdemeanorland: Criminal Courts and Social Control in an Age of Broken Windows Policing Book Discussion with Issa Kohler-Hausmann, Yale University Associate Professor of Law and Associate Professor of Sociology In discussion with Jeannie Suk Gersen, John H. Watson, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School Tuesday, May 1, 2018 – 7:00pm, Harvard Bookstore, 1256 […]

The Harvard European Law Association (HELA) is excited to announce its 2018 Symposium, taking place on Friday April 6, 2018, entitled “Europe and the US: Isolationism First?” Throughout the past decades, Europe and the US have enjoyed relative welfare from an economic, social, and cultural perspective. As a result, foreign citizens and companies regularly seek […]

The problems of mass incarceration and racially disproportionate rates of incarceration have led many to consider more transformative and restorative means of redress for harm and trauma. This panel will explore current arts based practices of people engaged in this mission. How do art based methods help individuals involved in criminal legal carceral system? How […]

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 […]

“The Work” is a riveting and thought-provoking film that takes viewers inside California’s Folsom Prison to experience an incredible group therapy program run by and for the men incarcerated there. Following the screening, there will be a Q&A with special guests Steve Spitzer, founder of Massachusett’s prison therapy program Jericho Circle Project, and Fred Clay, […]

Open and free to the public. Registration is required by emailing Kim Conant at rcc@harvad.edu Organized by: José María Puyol Montero (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) Description: Respect for human dignity at the end of life and the limits of power available to each person regarding their own existence have become major issues in the Western […]

“The New Politics of Criminal Justice Reform” is a panel presentation that will look from several vantage points at the extraordinary convergence on criminal justice issues and explore the opportunities (and potential pitfalls) of those shifting political configurations. The discussion will trace the origins of the broad ideological alignment around criminal justice reform and appraise […]

Come have a cup of coffee with Professor Crystal Yang!