New Harvard Law School program aims for ‘systemic justice’

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Posted by Danielle Padula, community karma 473
Professor Jon Hanson and recent law school graduate Jacob Lipton are leading a new Systemic Justice Project at Harvard in response to "a growing recognition that law students need to be trained to be problem-solvers and policy makers." Should other law schools look to incorporate similar offerings? 

 Read the full article: http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2015/02/06/new-harvard-law-school-program-aims-for-systemic-justice...
over 9 years ago

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Rob Walsh, community karma 1466
"The debate about how much lawyers should think about the wider social implications of their work stretches back to a classic 1897 essay in the Harvard Law Review called “The Path of the Law.” In it, the great Boston jurist and eventual Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., decried the “blackletter man” who learned the law as a closed system of knowledge based on past precedents, without reconsidering whether laws are working for the public good"

I found an HTML version of the Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. article mentioned over here
(Line-height isn't great though)


over 9 years ago
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