2023 Klinsky Lecture: Sherrilyn Ifill, "Reimagining American Democracy: Becoming Founders & Framers"
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 พ.ย. 2023
- On November 29, civil rights lawyer and scholar Sherrilyn Ifill, Steven and Maureen Klinsky Visiting Professor of Practice for Leadership and Progress at Harvard Law, delivered a lecture titled "Reimagining American Democracy: Becoming Founders & Framers," to mark the appointment.
From 2013-2022, Ifill served as the President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), where her voice and analysis played a prominent role in shaping the national conversation about race and civil rights. In 2024, Ifill will become the inaugural Vernon L. Jordan Chair in Civil Rights at Howard Law School, where will become founding Director of the 14th Amendment Center for Law & Democracy.
The Steven and Maureen Klinsky Professorship of Practice for Leadership and Progress was endowed in 2013 as the first endowed professorship of practice, designed to bring visiting leaders from a wide range of fields beyond law to campus to teach and bring inspiration and broad perspective to the school and, more generally, to Harvard University.
I could've listened for hours.
Thank you ❤
I appreciate this gathering of Harvard legal minds and Ifill's lecture mostly. Nonetheless, when worthy Professor Ifill speaks of the threat of 'insurrection' against legal rights and order in America, she is only half correct. The purpose of Law, the legitimate purpose, or the most important purpose as well as I can succinctly describe it, is to protect human and economic rights beyond the physical hustle, bustle, and robbery of mere hominid happenstance, the so called 'law of the jungle.' Our current laws fail to do so; indeed they often end up oppressing the human and economic rights Law is meant to stabilize and protect. We cannot live in a society without orderly, civic laws. So we must reform our legal system as I have long advocated. But we cannot and need not entirely start over as in our American Constitutional framework and other aspects of American law, we have a good sets of laws to reform; something suitable to reform, not so bad that it's better to start all over again, though it is enough of a mess that I have considered just that. In setting out our reforms, we should consider the legal reforms of both Justinian the Roman Emperor and the Napoleonic Code, especially the Napoleonic Code, for its potent and orderly unification in a single book of the common vernacular as far as is feasible, some brainy vocabulary and even comprehensible jargon is necessary; No I'm not saying we literally need a single book, but that's the right direction. Next, in the spirit of American law and legitimacy, let us avoid authoritarianism and laying out a thousand iron prescriptions for how everything has to be. We Americans are a free and liberated people and must be free to live, act, and find our ways using our own discretion, whimsy, and resourcefulness. To address Ifill's other concern, I think if she gave me and my seemingly eccentric ideas of legal legitimacy and illegitimacy a chance, she would find I do not wish a two-tier legal system for different races nor whites and blacks; not at all and quite the contrary, unusually so. But despite my liberated politics, I believe in law, order, and civilization; which at present I will be frank causes a fair amount of racial strife in that in our current illegal system, African Americans especially males are so often the coercive and even murderous enforcers of respectable, well to do Caucasian and such mafiosos really, though they are seen as respectable citizens. Coercion and violence are the most serious crimes; We have come to accept them in some kind of boys will be boys attitude. I and my forces stand for law and we will not tolerate this coercive brute barbarism, not at the level of the muscular nor armed threat, certainly not the beatdown or murder, not the school bullying which is an egregious problem; and we make no racial exceptions and tolerate no nonsense. When the law is the law of the jungle, which is what existed before our political rise and became so even more as a reaction, it's no longer a matter of peacetime law but total scientific warfare the ugly side of which the world has only begun to see; but which can still be held back. Obviously, we will never achieve civic and legal perfection; But I have always been serious about legal reform, and would have seriously and coherently discussed it with you all, at virtually any time you had contacted me for such jurisprudence dialogue. I thank you for this meeting; and regret the ugly realities that had to be discussed again toward the end of this letter.
18:31 3/5ths a person doesn’t mean they’re not whole persons. I wrote a paper for the Creation of the American Constitution for Harvard Extension School on this very topic. The amendments are clarifying haven’t finished the entire video but yes… the 14th amendment is of great value and an open misinterpreted loophole.
Well said. Bravo.
lol, she's a bigot
Thank you for speaking plain english speaking on jen psakis show. Keep speaking to the american people about jefferson davis not being able to run for president. Thank you
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Cringe.