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Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Library

Hundreds of experts, scholars back Harvard in admissions suit

They file myriad briefs supporting University’s case; Justice Department backs plaintiff

World|

DateAugust 31, 2018September 7, 2018

Paola Villarreal, a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center, is using data visualization to shed light on inequality in health, housing, and more.

Sifting data, seeking justice

Berkman Fellow aims for detailed picture of inequality

Campus|

DateJanuary 30, 2017December 10, 2018

“Once incarcerated, we know that LBGT people report devastatingly high rates of sexual abuse,” said Chase Strangio, a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union’s Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender & AIDS Project during a discussion at Harvard’s Barker Center that examined efforts to protect LBGT prisoners.

Justice for all

Inside the struggle to protect transgender inmates from abuse

World|

DateNovember 24, 2015

Larry Schwartztol is heading up a new Harvard Law School program that aims to help reform the nation’s criminal justice system, with assistance from Harvard students and faculty.

Reforming criminal justice

New Law School program aims to influence national policies

World|

DateNovember 19, 2015

“It is still, in remarkable respects, a free country to do the kind of work that we do," said Ben Wizner ’93 of his relationship as counsel to Edward Snowden. Wizner spoke at Harvard Law School on March 25.

Defending Snowden

Revelations key to reform push, says ACLU lawyer

World|

DateMarch 26, 2014

Chris Hansen (not pictured), the ACLU attorney who led the lawsuit against Myriad Genetics’ patents of two human breast cancer genes, kicked off a panel discussion at the Science Center with former ACLU science adviser Tania Simoncelli (from far right, photo 1), Judy Norsigian, executive director of Our Bodies Ourselves, George Church of Harvard Medical School, and Glenn Cohen of Harvard Law School.

Genes without patents

ACLU attorney joins discussion of Supreme Court case

Health|

DateNovember 14, 2013April 8, 2019