Tag: Thurgood Marshall
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Nation & World
Rescuing MLK and his Children’s Crusade
A book by Radcliffe Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin traces Martin Luther King’s desperation and the savvy legal tactics of Constance Baker Motley.
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Nation & World
The Civil Rights lawyer who paved the path
On the anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, the Gazette sat down with Tomiko Brown-Nagin, the faculty director of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice, to talk about Houston, architect of the legal campaign that led to the 1954 landmark Supreme Court ruling that ended legal segregation in public schools.
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Nation & World
Thurgood Marshall: The soundtrack of their lives
Five former law clerks of the late Supreme Court Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall took part in a panel discussion at Harvard Law School about his life and legacy.
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Nation & World
Death penalty, in retreat
Harvard Law School Professor Carol Steiker is devoting her Radcliffe Fellowship year to working on a book with her brother about the past half-century’s experiment with the constitutional regulation of capital punishment in America.
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Nation & World
‘My life was going to have to deal with issues of social injustice’
Interview with Dean Martha Minow as part of the Experience series.
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Nation & World
Colleagues recall Kagan’s years at Harvard
At Harvard, new Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan is remembered as an insightful intellectual, a tough-minded basketball player, and a colleague who had grit, graciousness, and patience.
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Nation & World
Matters of life and death
As part of a series of talks sponsored by Harvard Law School, criminal justice scholar Carol Steiker offered final words of advice to the parting class.