Howard University School of Law

The dean of Howard University Law School was like one of the mentors at the summer program.

Offered my dad at the end a position in the Howard Law School incoming class that September.

He said, look, Lurie, at the end, call this number on Monday and tell them that I sent you And that you, you know, should be coming to D.C. in September.

Do you think you could swing that? And he was like, yeah, I guess I can get to D.C.

So that's how it all happened.

So my dad went to Howard Law School with like Sharon Pratt Kelly, who was the mayor of D.C. for many years.

Togo West, who was secretary of the Army, other luminaries.

My dad became a lawyer, opened up a law firm on K Street.

and fundamental human rights.

By the way, Professor Ming, who wrote chapter four, was a professor at Howard University School of Law.

Chapter six, they included the charter of the United Nations and its provisions for human rights and the rights of minorities and decisions already taken under this charter.

That was included and then interpreted by the great Dr. Rayford Logan.

It's important.

You know, we just had a conference in Atlanta, the Wally Branton Issues Symposium, which was a great, named after a great civil rights leader, the late great Wally Branton, who represented the Little Rock Nine and did voting rights work in Georgia and around the country and was the dean of Howard Law School.

But the name of our, the theme of our conference, I'm sorry, was vote, your life depends on it, because every aspect of our lives have something to do with who's who is or who is not in office.

So it's very, very important.

So honored to welcome into the space Professor of Law and founder of the Ogletree Reparative Bar Association, Director of the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center at Georgetown University.

And he is a professor at the Howard University School of Law and Welcome, welcome, welcome.

It is great to have you on.

Professor Justin Hansford, it is an honor to have you on.

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He's the director of the Thurgood Marshall Civil Rights Center at Georgetown University, a Howard University School of Law professor and executive director of, or founder, I should say, of the Ogletree Reparative Bar Association.

And you may have seen him in the documentary, The Cost of Inheritance, which was aired on PBS in 2024.

She got her first paycheck through Writing for South Today and really credited the women with a lot of her success.

And she ends up getting a Rosenwald Fellowship as well while she's at Howard University Law School.

getting her law degree, she was going to have to drop out altogether until Paula and Lillian wrote her a letter of recommendation to get one of these fellowships.

And that's literally what kept her in law school.

Yeah.

You know, um, I also teach at Howard University School of Law.

I lead a civil rights clinic where I focus on training up the next generation of civil rights lawyers and advocates, and I tell them every day that, um, their task, their duty will be, uh, you know, figuring out the proper reforms needed to really strengthen and repair democracy.

And so, uh, you know, what I also do is encourage them to think about the other ways to get that training on justice, uh, in this moment.

So 380 a month versus 2200 a month with the same LSAT score, totally different life outcomes financially.

Howard University School of Law in Washington, D.C., founded in 1869.

This is the law school Thurgood Marshall graduated from in 1933.

For Black students in this country, Howard Law is the law school.