Thursday, May 17, 2018

  CLP Faculty Director, Prof. David Wilkins, is the guest on the most recent episode of the Protege Podcast to talk about strategies for effective diversity and inclusion programs. In this episode Prof. Wilkins talks about the state of diversity in the legal profession, the myth of the pipeline problem, and provides some action items […]

Monday, April 30, 2018

In the first of a two part interview with Thomson Reuters in their Next Gen Leadership: Advancing Lawyers of Color Initiative, CLP’s Executive Director Derek Davis provided sage wisdom to attorneys of color, pulling from his decades of experience in the legal profession. Davis reflects on his law school and early career experiences and the […]

Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Prof. David B. Wilkins recently participated in a panel on “Innovation, AI and the Law” here at Harvard Law School as part of the annual HLS Brazilian Symposium. Prof. Wilkins was joined on the panel by James Klotz, Secretary General of the IBA and a partner at Miller Thomson LLP, and Ian McDougall, Executive Vice-President […]

Monday, April 2, 2018

Prof. David B. Wilkins and Dr. Paola Cecchi-Dimeglio recently led a webinar for Harvard Law School Alumni entitled Advancing Talent Across Organizations: Small Nudges, Big Strides which is now available to view online. In this presentation, Prof. Wilkins presents research findings outlining what the new state of diversity looks like in professional organizations. That data is complemented […]

Monday, February 19, 2018

In a recently published blog post, CLP Resident Fellow John Bliss discusses how empirical legal research can address a major finding from the 2007 Carnegie Report on legal education, specifically that U.S. law schools are not giving their students enough training around professional identity and purpose. Bliss uses findings from his PhD research on the subject […]

Friday, February 9, 2018

On the heels of the Center on the Legal Profession’s recent book launch events in India celebrating the culmination of years of ongoing research into the globalization of the legal profession, Harvard Law Today has published an in-depth feature on the Center, it’s ongoing Globalization, Lawyers, and Emerging Economies (GLEE) research project, and the first […]

Thursday, December 7, 2017

Prof. David B. Wilkins was recently interview by Bar & Bench about the evolving Indian Legal Profession in advance of the December launch events for the recently published The Indian Legal Profession in the Age of Globalization: The Rise of the Corporate Legal Sector and its Impact on Lawyers and Society. The interview touches on […]

Thursday, November 30, 2017

The American Lawyer recently featured the Center’s Report on the State of Black Alumni II in a piece discussing the additional hurdles black female lawyers face as they confront gender and racial stereotypes in the workplace.  The report highlights that black men are much more likely to make partner than their female counterparts and are even […]

Tuesday, October 31, 2017

In the latest issue of Harvard Magazine, Professor James Greiner and the Access to Justice Lab are featured in a story on The Justice Gap. The story explores America’s unfulfilled promise of “equal justice under law” and the empirical work being undertaken in the Access to Justice Lab by Prof. Greiner and his team are featured as […]