Professor Jonathan Kahn Receives National Library of Medicine Grant

Professor Jonathan Kahn, a leading authority on biotechnology’s implications for our ideas of identity, rights and citizenship has been awarded a $150,000 grant from the National Library of Medicine for his book project, “The Uses of Diversity: Managing Race and Representation in Law, Politics, and the Biosciences.”

Championing Water Rights as Human Rights

In conjunction with her participation in Professor Martha Davis’s Human Rights in the United States seminar, Roshni Patel ’20 is the lead author of a new chapter on the water and human rights, supplementing the 2014 edition of Human Rights in the US: A Handbook for Legal Aid Attorneys.

Statement from Dean James Hackney

In the middle of the night I was transfixed by the fires ablaze in Minneapolis. The next morning, I awoke to the shock of a CNN reporter of color being arrested, for no articulated rationale. Across the nation, protests are releasing the pain of witnessing racial atrocities—all of this in the midst of a pandemic.