Word: guinier
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...Lani Guinier, Harvard Law School (HLS) Boskey Professor of Law and the first black woman tenured at HLS, urged blacks in the audience to “take control of your environment” and to confront issues such as the lack of a constitutional provision—as opposed to just an amendment—that grants all citizens the right to vote...
Professor of Afro-American Studies Ewart Guinier ’33 said that the lack of Afro-American Studies courses in the proposed Core Curriculum “shows that the Core Curriculum is nothing but a publicity stunt for the fund drive the Faculty of Arts and Science will be starting next year...
...Guinier added that Harvard “isn’t preparing students to live in a world where four-fifths of the people are non-white...
This year’s volume features, among other works, a Supreme Court issue which includes articles by Boskey Professor of Law Lani Guinier ’71 on the 2003 University of Michigan affirmative action cases and a forward by Yale Law Professor Robert Post on how decisions by the Court from the past term reflect a “connection between culture and law,” according to Vignarajah...
Only over the past thirty years or so, due to important work by Jewish students, faculty and religious leaders, has the University become a home for Jewish students. Although it would have been wonderful and momentous to have Professor Guinier, a powerhouse academic and activist in her own right, as a housemaster, we must not overlook the significance of Harris’s appointment in the diversification of Harvard College’s House system...