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Posts by Systemic Justice Project at Harvard Law School

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The Innocent Victims of the Dopamine Economy How corporations use children’s developmental vulnerabilities to create life-long consumers.

“Imagine whole bookshelves, seminars, workshops and trainings that teach aspiring tech entrepreneurs techniques like these. Imagine hundreds of engineers whose job every day is to invent new ways to keep you hooked.”

Our latest -- a great story reported by Gauri Sood:👇
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Big Oil’s Net-Zero Illusion How Big Oil is, once again…

“I think the only reason that we are not all outraged constantly is that it has become normalized to see that type of misleading messaging everywhere....But that doesn’t make it okay, it just means that we are used to it.”

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9 months ago 2 2 0 0
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The Character & Fitness process is a black box that shapes who gets to practice law. @unlockthebarny.bsky.social is gathering stories to expose how C&F impacts underrepresented communities & to help democratize the profession. Take the survey: tinyurl.com/UTB-People-S...

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New MAGA, Same as the Old MAGA? Trump, Vance, and “Tech-Bro Fascism”…

Why does Trump’s second term feel more unhinged—more coordinated—than his first?

Because it is.

Brilliant reporting by @holdenhop.bsky.social who untangles the individuals and ideologies powering Trump 2.0.

theflaw.org/articles/new...

10 months ago 3 4 0 0
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Our Silence is for Sale? How Law Firms make the Harvard Experience Possible…

"With graduation less than a few days away, my classmates and I can’t shake one feeling: that we were paid to stay silent and encouraged to stay distracted. Sometimes it feels as though we are brilliant marionettes controlled by technicality and fear."

Our latest:
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10 months ago 3 1 0 2
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Consumer Protection: A Eulogy Trump’s Efforts to Dismantle Consumer Protection…

The Trump administration shut down the CFPB: deleted its public guidance, halted enforcement, canceled settlements, & fired staff. A full-scale demolition of consumer protection as a gift powerful banks.

In our latest, Carson Whitesell reports for The [F]law:
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Home Field Advantage The Public Cost of Stadium Financing…

Billionaire team owners.
Taxpayer-funded stadiums.
Cities abandoned.

Oakland lost all 3 of its pro teams in 5 years. The public is still paying the price.

Read our latest:
theflaw.org/articles/hom...

11 months ago 7 4 0 0

Important! Grateful to @peoplesparity.bsky.social for their leadership and to many law students for demonstrating to powerful BigLaw partners what courage looks like.

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In the Habit of Hate How Social Media Profits from Radicalization & Mass Harassment.

Social media’s algorithms are “designed to exploit the human brain’s attraction to divisiveness.” Political radicalization are “hollowing out our democratic institutions.”

How do those pieces fit together, and how are corporations profiting off of it all?

Our latest!:👇
theflaw.org/articles/in-...

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Corporations Ghostwriting our Dangerous Foreign Policy A lawsuit against US arms companies exposes corporate power’s reach…

"While the world condemns the unspeakable violence committed against innocents, what of the corporations that stake their business model on it?"

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1 year ago 4 2 0 0
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[F]law School Episode 14: Banking on Discrimination Citibank, Armenian Americans…

Citibank quietly closed Armenian Americans’ accounts based on their last names. No warning. No explanation. Just discrimination.

Our latest episode: theflaw.org/articles/fla...

1 year ago 3 2 0 0
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Animal or Industry Welfare? How a secret USDA policy keeps animals in research hidden…

The USDA passed a new policy away from the public eye, and suddenly millions of animals used in research were hidden too. This is a story of secret policies and agency capture—but also a story of compassion for the animals we exploit in the name of scientific progress.
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"The only way to win justice is through collective action and solidarity.” - @vail.bsky.social

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No Way to Treat a Guest Exploitation in the H-2A Migrant Farm Worker Program…

We're excite to share our latest article and paired podcast. In both Izza Drury reveals the hidden realities of the H-2A visa program—marketed as a pathway for temporary agricultural work but serving as a system that traps migrant farmworkers in cycles of exploitation.
theflaw.org/articles/no-...

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Corporate Greed in Indian Country On the Osage reservation, Big Oil’s schemes span the Koch bros.

"The success of the film 'Killers of the Flower Moon' shows that the time is ripe for other stories of theft and deception endured by my people. Disturbingly, these stories go well beyond the 1920s murders depicted in the film. They are ongoing."
theflaw.org/articles/cor...

1 year ago 2 1 0 1

Let's get busy!

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The Systemic Justice Project Rapid Response Group - Harvard Law School | Systemic Justice Project The Systemic Justice Project is facilitating a new collaboration among lawyers and law students committed to supporting justice efforts through discrete, time-sensitive legal research and analysis in…

The @systemicjustice.bsky.social at HLS is launching a new initiative to unite law students and lawyers in the fight for justice, civil rights, and democracy. Check it out!

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[F]law School Episode 12: The Body (S)camera How corporations manipulate public fears and deepen police power all for profit.

Latest episode of [F]law School: Police body cameras aren’t about accountability. Footage & the public are being manipulated to legitimize violence, expand surveillance, and boost profits.

Listen wherever you get your podcasts or theflaw.org/articles/fla...

1 year ago 2 2 0 0
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Small Government, Big Business Corporate interests are invading the American municipality…

The good news: Local governments are taking the lead on major political and social issues;

The bad news: corporate interest groups are taking notice.

Lobbyists are probably targeting your hometown now–the problem is a lot bigger (and tougher to detect) than you think.
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[F]law School Episode 11: The Midnight Shift Today’s Child Labor Crisis…

Our latest [F]law School episode -- eye opening conversation with Luke Hinrichs about the growing use of child labor in the U.S.-- a bad problem that is destined to get significantly worse under Trump. MAGA = Make Adolescents Grind Again

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1 year ago 3 2 0 0
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Systemic Justice Project Conference: Facing the Future: Organizing and Lawyering for Justice The Systemic Justice Project's 2025 conference (Jan 31 – Feb 2) will bring together justice-oriented law students, lawyers, organizers, and scholars and will focus on the future of justice-oriented…

In two weeks (Jan 31 – Feb 2), the Systemic Justice Project's 2025 conference will taking place at HLS on Facing the Future: Organizing and Lawyering for Justice.

Co-sponsored by us, @peoplesparity.bsky.social, & @systemicjustice.bsky.social

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[F]law School Episode 10: Mass Incarceration, Inc. In this episode of [F]law School, hosts Gauri Sood and Haley Florsheim explore the chilling reality of publicly traded private prisons with third-year law student Jheri’ Richards. Together…

This episode of the [F]law School podcast, with Jheri' Richards, examines relationship between mass incarceration and corporate greed.

It is so good! -- way way better than anything else that might be dominating the media at the moment.

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