Identifying Dominant Narratives in 1L Class Discussions
Tara Norris, HLS ’15 I am halfway through my 1L year at Harvard Law School, and I can say without hesitation that this has been the most intellectually stimulating and academically rewarding experience...
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The following passage is an excerpt from a speech delivered by Patrick Mason Ragen, the 2012-2013 President of the Harvard Black Law Students Association (“HBLSA”) at this year’s 30th Annual HBLSA...
View ArticleA Working Paper on The Mask of Law: Montoya’s Mask and the Un/Masking of...
Nick J. Sciullo[1] When I first read Margaret E. Montoya’s revolutionary article, Máscaras, Trenzas, y Greñas: Un/Masking the Self While Un/Braiding Latina Stories and Legal Discourse,[2] I was a young...
View ArticleSadness and the Criminal Law
Ronald R. Garet* All the leaves are brown, and a gray sky Washes (as a mother bathes her little ones) The ownmost sadness of a dry-eyed day. Her tears withheld, more triste than any crying, The wintry...
View ArticleUnmasking Law: Women of Color Pioneering Critical Outsider Scholarship
Francisco Valdes* Please click here to access a PDF version of this article. A Reflection on Margaret Montoya, Máscaras, Trenzas, y Greñas: Un/Masking the Self While Un/Braiding Latina Stories and...
View ArticleTreat Everyone Like an Outsider
SR Does anyone get radicalized in law school? Is that a thing? Is legal education something that can radicalize people? It seems like law students have two basic experiences with radicalism. One, you...
View ArticleMasked: Surveilling the Self
Anonymous We may be thinking it, but our hands are not raised. Today’s Harvard Law School is decidedly different from the one described in Prof. Montoya’s piece, not due to an absence of critical...
View ArticleStory Telling as Self Definition
Joanne Caceres, HLS ’13 I have always been an avid reader and believe that we can discover truths about ourselves through storytelling. These stories I will share help explain who I am today—a women of...
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Saris, Courtrooms and Prison: Reinventing Indian Womanhood
Surina Diddi, Wellesley College ’12, Madeleine Albright Fellow ’11, B.A. Economics The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. ― Milan Kundera I felt so moved by...
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La Verdad, El Poder, y La Liberación
La Verdad, El Poder, y La Liberación Christine Zuni Cruz* A Reflection** on Margaret Montoya, Máscaras, Trenzas, y Greñas: Un/Masking the Self While Un/Braiding Latina Stories and Legal Discourse, 17...
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