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In case you missed it: Volume 56.2 is out now!

Read about environmental justice, artificial intelligence, children’s rights, and more here: https://harvardcrcl.org/vol-57-no-2-fall-2022/

Volume 57.1 is out now! Read about incarcerated labor, social movements, urban narratives, mandatory voting, and more here: https://harvardcrcl.org/vol57-no1-summer2022/

Congratulations to Professor Michele Goodwin—author of CR-CL forthcoming article, "The Thirteenth Amendment’s Punishment Clause: A Spectacle of Slavery Unwilling to Die"—for winning the ABA’s 2022 Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Award!

“‘We Belong in These Spaces’: Jackson’s Successors Reflect on Her Nomination”—an article in today’s —features some of our journal’s Black women leaders, including Gwendolyn Gissendanner ‘22, former Managing Editor for Diversity & Inclusion 📚

➡️From her time growing up in a working-class community outside Detroit and working for Harvard’s student-run Legal Aid Bureau, Gwendolyn Gissendanner, 25, is acutely aware of how race and identity can affect a courtroom’s proceedings.

“We always have to think about what we need to do to make my often Black low-income clients appeal to a white judge who doesn’t understand their experience,” she said. “But someone who you don’t have to take the extra leap to prove to them that race interacts with every aspect of your life makes a giant difference in what types of decisions can be made.”

She added, “I think of the Supreme Court as such an inaccessible beacon, and the idea that someone who reflects my own identity is going to be in that space is kind of — I don’t even know if I’ve fully processed that yet.”

“‘We Belong in These Spaces’: Jackson’s Successors Reflect on Her Nomination”—an article in today’s —features some of our journal’s Black women leaders, including Virginia Thomas ‘23, Executive Managing Editor for Solicited Content & former Article Selection Editor 📚

➡️ Virginia Thomas helped pass guidelines in New York banning hair discrimination three years earlier, so seeing Judge Jackson “with sisterlocks, standing up there in her glory and her professionalism,” was particularly satisfying.

“It’s an opportunity for people to really visualize and see Black women doing what they do, which is being unapologetically successful, unapologetically confident in who they are,” Ms. Thomas, 31, said.

As a vice president for the Black Law Students Association, Ms. Thomas organized screenings of Judge Jackson’s confirmation hearings. The highlight, she said, was attracting the attention of security guards, cafeteria workers and custodians who work at the law school.

“Watching with the staff in the morning before students started trickling in after classes and realizing that this moment is bigger than just for law school nerds who love the Supreme Court,” she said. “It also matters for everyday people.”

Reposting the ! “‘We Belong in These Spaces’: Jackson’s Successors Reflect on Her Nomination” features some of our journal’s Black women leaders, including Mariah K. Watson, former Solicited Content Editor 📚

Reposting the ! “‘We Belong in These Spaces’: Jackson’s Successors Reflect on Her Nomination” features some of our journal’s Black women leaders, including Christina Coleburn ‘23, Executive Managing Editor for Operations & former Online Content Editor 📚

Reposting the ! “‘We Belong in These Spaces’: Jackson’s Successors Reflect on Her Nomination” features some of our journal’s Black women leaders, including Regina Fairfax ‘24, Student Writing Editor 📚

🎉 Congrats to outgoing CR-CL editorial board members Ava Cilia ‘22 and Kaitlynn Milvert ‘22, the two HLS students to win Skadden Fellowships this year!

Ava served as an Executive Technical Editor last year and an Online Content Editor and Managing Editor for Events this year and will be working at Brooklyn Defender Services to address the harmful impacts of the New York State Central Registry of Child Abuse and Neglect, representing individuals challenging their erroneous inclusion on the registry or seeking employment unrelated to their registration.

Kaitlynn served as an Executive Technical Editor and will be working at Equip for Equality to provide direct representation to address the long-term and collateral consequences of guardianship for adults with disabilities.

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Another great weekly recap on our Amicus blog from Marisa Wright ‘24!
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Check out this new post on our Amicus blog from Austin Powell ‘24! Link in bio