A recent SLS course, Narrative Strategies for Racial Justice, took students on a journey from the classroom to the streets of Montgomery, Alabama, for an exploration of long-standing racial narratives and the shaping of American history and justice.
Professor Nora Freeman Engstrom gave a TEDx Sand Hill Road Women talk about the severe lack of access to civil legal assistance in the U.S., emphasizing how it disproportionately impacts women and marginalized communities.
Look inside Professor Nate Persily's office and his trove of artifacts of the democratic process, from the cartoon that inspired the term “Gerry-mandering” to the machine responsible for the infamous hanging chads.
The Institute for Advancing Just Societies launched a new initiative, led by Professor Michelle Wilde Anderson, to work with the civic sector, local government, and historically Black colleges and universities in Jackson, Mississippi to explore service issues that are driving a dramatic population loss.