On February 21, 2013, the Supreme Court heard legal arguments on Bowman v. Monsanto in what is sure to become a landmark patent and intellectual property case in the United States. The case involves the giant seed agrichemical company Monsanto vs. a...
March 4, 2015 By Stephen Menendian As I wrote over a year ago, the “tragedy of Trayvon Martin perfectly captures this nation's deepest race problems, and yet almost no one is talking about what those problems really are.” The trial itself, the media...
By: Amariah Hash and Stephen Menendian On January 25, 2013, the United States Department of Education Office for Civil Rights issued new guidance for primary, secondary, and university educators on providing inclusionary athletic opportunities for...
Critical race theory has been around since the 1980s, yet few law schools provide courses on this crucial body of scholarship. While “Critical Race Theory” is a course taught at Berkeley Law, it is not offered every year. For example, I have never...
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...
In late March, the Supreme Court will have an opportunity to weigh in on the question of gay marriage under the federal Constitution in two separate cases. First, the Court will hear oral argument on the issue of whether the equal protection clause...
by Haas Institute Communications Fellow Sara Grossman Speaking to an audience of more than 2,000 in San Francisco, Haas Institute Director john a. powell underscored the importance of fostering a society that places greater value on mindfulness and...
Haas Institute Executive Director john a. powell spoke to the First Unitarian Universalist Society of San Francisco Feb. 28 at the 4th Annual "Spaghetti Dinner for the 99%." The theme of the event was Black Lives Matter! and featured speeches from...
This research report assesses the extent of gentrification in Richmond by analyzing changes in the demographics and housing market between the years 2000 and 2013.
February 17, 2015 On Tuesday, February 17, Executive Director john a. powell led a webinar for Human Impact Partner's Public Health and Equity Cohort, a group of twelve emerging leaders from public health agencies around the country who are coming...
Interview by Chloe Tarrasch, Haas Institute Communications Fellow UC Berkeley Professor Evelyn Nakano Glenn, who was recently awarded the Chancellor’s Award for Advancing Institutional Excellence, discusses her study of Japanese American self...
Join community members, fair housing scholars, organizers and advocates, researchers, and policymakers at this community forum to: Explore connections between place-based improvements to community health, forces of residential displacement, and...
2014 Haas Institute Summer Fellows HAAS INSTITUTE FELLOWSHIP Magali Duque is a rising senior at Stanford University, majoring in History with a focus in World History and Global Affairs. She is also pursuing a minor in Modern Languages (French and...
UPDATE: APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL MARCH 13, 2015 above: Summer 2014 Haas Institute Fellows Updated: March 3, 2015 APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED UNTIL MARCH 13, 2015 The Haas Institute is pleased to announce our 2015 Summer Fellow Program is...
January 27, 2015 By Amani Allen Eric Garner’s death and the failure to indict NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo have had a profound effect on communities throughout the United States. But it’s not just Eric Garner. This, and similar cases including...
A research-backed guide for building bridges across difference in any area of our lives, from esteemed civil rights scholar john a. powell. We don't want to live in a society in turmoil. In the US, 93 percent of people want to reduce divisiveness...
Want a chance to hear from experts studying the root of what’s driving us apart and how we come back together? Eager to build the skills to listen empathetically, elicit narratives of connection, and interview professionally? Looking for a chance...
The root of all inequality is the process of othering – and its solution is the practice of belonging We all yearn for connection and community, but we live in a time when calls for further division along the well-wrought lines of religion, race...
