Harvard Justice Biography
The Program in Criminal Justice (PCJ) has received a grant from the UK Department for International Development (DFID) to strengthen national capacity in the Government of Ethiopia to design and use indicators to achieve better governance and to demonstrate results in safety and justice. The grant began in January and will fund work in Ethiopia for a period of 5 years. Throughout a period of scoping work in 2012, PCJ began collaborations with federal justice agencies and research institutions, and will continue to expand collaborations to respond to demand for joint action research from other criminal justice institutions both at the federal and regional levels of government.
Hundreds of students pack Harvard's Sanders Theater for Michael Sandel's "Justice" course—an introduction to moral and political philosophy. They come to hear Sandel lecture about great philosophers of the past—from Aristotle to John Stuart Mill—but also to debate contemporary issues that raise philosophical questions—about individual rights and the claims of community, equality and inequality, morality and law.
Despite the size of the course, Sandel engages students in lively discussion on topics including affirmative action, income distribution, and same-sex marriage, showing that even the most hotly contested issues of the day can be the subject of reasoned moral argument. This film, which contains excerpts of several classes, is part of a project to make this legendary course an educational resource that reaches beyond the Harvard classroom.
Harvard Justice
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