Harvard Journal on Racial & Ethnic Justice

HBLJ is open now through January 15, 2022 for submissions!

A Note from the Editor-in-Chief James Ramsey   Original artwork John Sherman   The Panther Declawed: How Blue Mayors Disarmed Black Men Karl T. Muth   Balm of the Ancestors LaTrina M. Johnson-Brown   Police Arbitration and the Public Interest Stephen A. Plass   Meditations on Joy Full Leadership and Black Liberation Alexis Yeboah-Kodie  … Read more: Volume 37

Volume 36 A Note from the Editors The Editors A Note from the Editor-in-Chief Julian Nunally Demons, Savages, and Sovereigns: On Whiteness and Law James Ramsey Belinda (Say her name) Kiah Duggins What the Hair: Employment Discrimination Against Black People Based on Hairstyles Ra’Mon Jones Why Are We So Mad? The Truth Behind “Angry” Black… Read more: Volume 36

The Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal (HBLJ) is excited to announce the 2021-2022 Call for Submissions for our 38th volume. The theme of this year’s volume will be “Afro-Latin America and the Law: Pan American Connections.” We encourage the submission of papers that deal with the following topics: Comparative experiences of Blackness and the law in… Read more: Submissions

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Volume 35 A Note from the Editors The Editors Capitalism, Anti-Blackness, and the Law: A Very Short History Jonathon Booth Coldest Winter Ever Amanda “330” Carter Black, White & Blue Shannon Cumberbatch The Great Rural Boon: Racial Politics and the Criminalization of the Urban Poor Darnell Epps Mirror, Mirror: Anti-Blackness and Lawyering as an Identity… Read more: Volume 35

We at the Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal (HBLJ), formerly the Harvard Journal on Racial and Ethnic Justice, are excited to announce our 2019 Call for Content. HBLJ is looking for submissions from activists, those who are or have been incarcerated, lawyers, organizers, scholars, and others confronting issues facing Black communities in the United States and the Black… Read more: 2019 Call for Content

1st Harvard Law School Critical Race Theory Conference “Movement Lawyering: Lessons From and For Critical Race Theory” Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Review & Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal CALL FOR CONTENT Accepting between February 11 – March 25, 2019 Post-conference reflections accepted April 13 – April 19, 2019 Derrick Bell founded Critical Race Theory (“CRT”)… Read more: Call for Content: 1st Harvard Law School Critical Race Theory Conference

The Harvard BlackLetter Law Journal (HBLJ), formerly the Harvard Journal on Racial and Ethnic Justice, is excited to announce its 2018 Call for Content. HBLJ is looking for submissions from activists, those who are or have been incarcerated, lawyers, organizers, scholars, and others confronting issues facing Black Communities in the United States. We are accepting submissions until January 15, 2019. The… Read more: 2018 Call for Content!

Board Applications Applications for the 2018-2019 JREJ board are open and can be found here. Applications are due Sunday, April 1, by midnight. Our interest meeting will be held in the journal office on Thursday, March 29, from 2:00 to 4:00 PM. Come by and learn more about the positions and how you can shape our organization in the upcoming… Read more: Spring Subcite and Board Applications

RACIAL JUSTICE & THE ARTS Harvard Law Journal on Racial and Ethnic Justice Spring Symposium March 22-23, 2018, at Harvard Law School 1585 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02138 Free and open to the public. For general questions, please contact arawlings@jd19.law.harvard.edu. To request accommodations or for questions or concerns regarding accessibility, please contact Accessibility Services at 617-495-1880 or accessibility@law.harvard.edu. Thursday,… Read more: 3/22-23/18 | Spring Symposium: Racial Justice & the Arts

JREJ is proudly co-sponsoring four events at the Harvard Law School Bicentennial Symposium on October 27, 2017. 9:00 AM | Criminal Justice Reform and Advocacy Through Storytelling with Lesley Harris 9:00 AM | Critical Legal Movements and Harvard Law School with Nancy Gertner 2:00 PM | Teaching and the Movement: Criminal Justice Reform from the Classroom to… Read more: 10/27/17 | HLS Bicentennial Symposium

Our subcite training and fall subcite will take place on Saturday, November 4, 2017, in Pound 102. Our subcite training will begin at 9:00am, and we will begin subciting afterwards. Typically, JREJ subciters are done by noon. Breakfast and lunch will be served. If you are an HLS student who is interested in joining the Journal of Racial & Ethnic Justice, please… Read more: 11/4/17 | Join JREJ for our fall subcite!

Whether one calls it modern day slavery or the new Jim Crow, mass incarceration represents the most recent dynamic mechanism by which the state exercises controls over black and brown bodies in the name of justice. The term encompasses  more than the wild racial disparities in police brutality, the school to prison pipeline, arrest rates, pretrial detention, conditions… Read more: Now accepting submissions for our 34th edition (2017-2018)

The Harvard Journal on Racial & Ethnic Justice is proud to present its annual symposium on critical race theory in academia and action.  The symposium is free and open to the public. Sign up for a coffee chat with Tanya Hernandez here. To assist us in estimating attendance for catering purposes, kindly indicate your interest… Read more: JREJ Critical Race Theory Symposium

Whether one calls it modern day slavery or the new Jim Crow, mass incarceration represents the most recent dynamic mechanism by which the state exercises controls over black and brown bodies in the name of justice. The term encompasses  more than the wild racial disparities in police brutality, the school to prison pipeline, arrest rates, pretrial detention, conditions… Read more: Now Accepting Article Submissions for 2016-17!