From Justice for all
May 22, 2010 at 11:52 pm
In a Legal Studies class I’m currently taking, I recently learned about an important problem relating to juvenile justice: the school-to-prison pipeline. While I was lucky ... (
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May 21, 2010 at 5:30 am
Path to Justice from Penal Reform International on Vimeo.
This quarter, I’m interning with the Northwestern University Center on International Human Rights, a legal clinic ... (
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May 17, 2010 at 9:16 pm
I recently finished reading an amazing book, The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison: Ideology, Class, and Criminal Justice. The book itself has too many statistics and can ... (
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From Justice for all
May 13, 2010 at 8:29 pm
I’ve read a lot of articles lately about Elena Kagan, who President Obama has recently nominated to the Supreme Court, and her incredible ambition. Her career path has been ... (
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May 6, 2010 at 10:15 pm
Recently, through a particularly enlightening conversation with a friend, I realized that there are, essentially, two pathways or methods of thinking about social change and development ... (
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From Justice for all
April 29, 2010 at 5:04 am
We’re overeducated and underexperienced, when really it should be the other way around.
It’s a pity - and a case of misallocated resources - considering higher education ... (
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From Justice for all
April 27, 2010 at 5:24 pm
From Jurist:
Indonesia’s justice minister announced Tuesday the opening of a prison wing intended to confine individuals convicted of corruption….The wing was added ... (
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From Justice for all
April 24, 2010 at 12:21 pm
Hope you are all having a wonderful weekend! It’s Saturday morning, and I’m working hard on my thesis which is due by the end of the week! I’m definitely panicking ... (
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From Justice for all
April 18, 2010 at 10:48 am
Today, more and more young people are finding service-oriented careers attractive. Indeed, there is a seismic generational shift underway. Generation Y is breaking with the tradition ... (
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From Justice for all
April 16, 2010 at 9:07 am
When everyone else is obsessing over “building the next generation of leaders” and encouraging Gen Yers to become social entrepreneurs and social change innovators, ... (
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From Justice for all
April 10, 2010 at 9:51 pm
I recently ran across an excellent post by Rosetta Thurman, in which she writes about the importance of developing a personal mission statement. I absolutely loved the idea; organizations ... (
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From Justice for all
April 6, 2010 at 10:17 pm
Through my studies in the political science field, I’ve studied both Guantanamo Bay and the Gacaca process of post-conflict restorative justice in Rwanda in quite a bit ... (
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From Justice for all
April 3, 2010 at 1:00 pm
Recently, I met up with an old friend and we were swapping stories about our current career interests. Of course I started talking about my hopes of becoming a public interest ... (
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From Justice for all
April 2, 2010 at 9:06 am
I recently read Half the Sky, by Nick Kristof and Sheryl Wudunn. To be quite honest, I wasn’t a huge fan of the book. But I think that the organizations he highlighted were ... (
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From Justice for all
March 28, 2010 at 1:35 pm
(Note: This is a post I wrote a week ago, so it’s a bit outdated - but still very relevant!)
For the first time ever, the United States will be participating in the universal ... (
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From Justice for all
March 26, 2010 at 8:31 pm
I know I haven’t done Feature Friday in a really long time, but I’m planning to start again; there are so many amazing organizations and people I keep running across ... (
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From Justice for all
March 22, 2010 at 6:11 pm
As an undergraduate student thinking of going to law school to become a public interest/civil rights/human rights lawyer, I’ve been talking to a lot of attorneys in the recent ... (
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From Justice for all
March 21, 2010 at 3:40 pm
I’m a graduating senior. June 2010. Those words hang ominously in the air, haunting me, frightening me, and at the same time, exhilarating me. Thankfully, I’ve managed ... (
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From Justice for all
March 13, 2010 at 2:28 pm
The LRA - from the Enough Project
While the deadly Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) may have left Uganda for good, the notorious rebel army hasn’t stopped wreaking havoc ... (
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From Justice for all
March 4, 2010 at 7:39 pm
At my internship last summer, what I really took away was the importance of pioneering a new approach to human rights. The 20th century approach to human rights was in defining ... (
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From Justice for all
March 2, 2010 at 12:15 am
Dear readers: Thank you all so much for the outpouring of support and incredibly kind, intelligent, and valuable thoughts you provided in response to my previous post. I think, ... (
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From Justice for all
February 20, 2010 at 1:40 am
I haven’t posted in quite a long time, so this isn’t going to be your “typical” Justice for All blog post. Instead, I’m going to ramble on about my ... (
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January 21, 2010 at 7:46 pm
There is a lot of talk of personal branding these days: is it good or bad? How can you build a network of people who respect your personal brand? How can you join a group of people
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From Justice for all
January 13, 2010 at 10:28 pm
The earthquake that has just struck Haiti is a natural disaster of massive proportions, and it’s very difficult for us to wrap our heads around it. The current estimated ... (
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From Justice for all
January 7, 2010 at 12:26 am
Thanks to Running Chicken, I found an excellent new article by Hunjoon Kim and Kathryn Sikkink: Explaining the Deterrence Effect of Human Rights Prosecutions for Transitional Countries. ... (
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