Professor Jonathan Kahn’s Latest Book Untangles Diversity

In The Uses of Diversity: How Race Has Become Entangled in Law, Politics, and Biology, Professor Jonathan Kahn argues that over the past 50 years, the concept of diversity has been deployed in contested and often contradictory ways, serving both liberal and conservative ends, yet often dangerously reifying race as genetic.

CLEAR Directors Panelists at MassBar Event on the Origins of Restorative Justice

Restorative justice efforts are happening within the trial courts on the state and federal level, schools, workplaces and programs. To address related issues, the Massachusetts Bar Association’s Judicial Administration Section and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee (DEIC) hosted a two-part program series that included expert observations by Professor Deborah A. Ramirez and Dr. Deborah A. Jackson, faculty co-director and managing director, respectively, of Northeastern Law’s Center for Law, Equity and Race (CLEAR).