On Wednesday, June 3, Executive Director john a. powell gave the keynote speech at Rise Together's "Power to Prosperity: The Power of 9" Conference. As an organization whose mission is to cut poverty in half by 2020, john's keynote focused on the...

In his new article, "What Constitutes a Racial Classification? Equal Protection Doctrine Scrutinized" for the Temple Political and Civil Rights Law Review, Haas Institute Assistant Director Stephen Menendian examines the growing number of anomalies...

On Monday, May 9, Executive Director john a. powell gave the "Public Policy in Action" community lecture at The New School for International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy in New York City.

For policy to be effective in achieving desired goals, close attention must be paid to decisions made during the design and implementation stages. But how do we ensure that public policies are designed and implemented in a way to ensure that all...

Othering is a frame that captures the many forms of prejudice and persistent marginality, but also explains and analyzes a set of common processes and mechanisms that engender Othering.

On April 24th, Armenians worldwide will solemnly commemorate the 100th anniversary of one of the first modern genocides, the massacre of more than one million ethnic Armenians in eastern Turkey in 1915. This occasion is an opportunity to consider not...

This Annual Report, our first, is a snapshot of our leading initiatives and areas of critical inquiry, faculty clusters, and key events from 2014.

On February 21, 2015, the Haas Institute participated in an all-day Food Justice Forum organized by Holy Names University in Oakland, California.

On February 28, at the 6th annual Wisdom 2.0 conference in San Francisco, California, Berkeley Law Professor and Director of the Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society, john a. powell, participated in a panel discussion entitled “Expanding...

Critiquing the legal system for not taking into consideration the voices of marginalized communities has been long overdue, and still most law school campuses lack a Critical Race Theory (“CRT”) course. This conference, therefore, offered an...