On Friday, April 17, 2026, Harvard CR-CL will honor our founding members’ vision by hosting a 60th Anniversary Symposium. Our theme—Building Bridges or Borders? Community, Citizenship, and Civil Rights in an Age of Authoritarianism— responds to the state’s rapidly accelerating violations of the civil rights and civil liberties of non-citizens and U.S. citizens alike. Our speakers will explore these dimensions through the lens of immigration law enforcement. They hail from the ACLU State Supreme Court Initiative; the City Council of Saint Paul, Minnesota; the University of Minnesota Law School; Boston University School of Law; Boston College Law School; Harvard Law School; and Rutgers Law School.
This Symposium is dedicated to the memory of Professor Spencer H. Boyer, a co-founder of Harvard CR-CL, who passed away in November 2025.
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This event is co-sponsored by the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, Bloomberg Law, the Harvard Law School Human Rights Program, Lambda, the West Coast Club, the Plaintiffs Law Association, the Harvard Black Law Students Association, the Systemic Justice Project, and the Law and Social Change Program.