Harvard Law School published this video item, entitled “Policing in America | Activism and Engagement: What Can Lawyers Do?” – below is their description.
In the yearlong Policing in America lecture series, Harvard Law School faculty members Andrew Manuel Crespo and Alexandra Natapoff bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars in conversation with police, prosecutors, activists, and other leading voices to analyze the complex and democratically vital questions raised by the institution of American policing. These conversations are aimed at illuminating the current moment, what brought us here, and the opportunities it presents to us as a legal and national community moving forward.
Lawyers and courts have played a central role in every major social movement in American history, from the labor movement to the civil rights movement to the LGBTQ movement. At the same time, law is often seen as part of the status quo and a barrier to change.
In this final session of the 2020–2021 academic year, a panel of Harvard Law School educators discuss the role of law, lawyers, and scholarship in the current social movement for racial justice and change in the criminal system.
Panelists:
– Premal Dharia, inaugural executive director of the Harvard Law School Institute to End Mass Incarceration;
– Jeannie Suk Gersen, John H. Watson, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School;
– Dehlia Umunna, clinical professor of law at Harvard Law School and faculty deputy director of the Criminal Justice Institute at HLS.
For more information on the lecture series, visit the Policing in America website https://policinginamerica.law.harvard.edu/
Read “A ‘reckoning’ for policing in America” on Harvard Law Today https://today.law.harvard.edu/a-reckoning-for-policing-in-america/
Harvard Law School YouTube Channel
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