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Granholm, who graduated from HLS in 1987, was not an initial target of the Law School Administration Board’s disciplinary action against HLS protestors. Her involvement was only discovered when she testified in defense of Michael T. Anderson ’83, a fellow HLS student accused of inciting the protest...
Twenty-one years ago, before Jennifer M. Granholm became governor of Michigan, she and a group of fellow Harvard Law School (HLS) students joined an undergraduate protest against the Harvard Corporation’s financial connections to apartheid South Africa...
...contemporaries at HLS, Granholm’s altruistic testimony was just one good example of her political passion and perseverance...
According to Anderson, Granholm also had a leading role in the “nuts and bolts” aspects of similar HLS student initiatives. She encouraged professor participation, organized rallies, and managed an escrow fund to support the anti-apartheid cause...
Professors were also impressed with Granholm during her time at HLS. Weld Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson ’60 said that Granholm was as impressive in the classroom as she was in her extra-curricular pursuits...