SYSTEMIC JUSTICE - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Research Fellow at the Systemic Justice Project at Harvard Law School
Christina White is a Research Fellow at the Systemic Justice Project at Harvard Law School and Fulbright Scholar from Australia.
Christina's research explores systemic causes of mass incarceration and injustice within criminal law. Before coming to Harvard, she worked as a Public Defender in the Northern Territory of Australia, representing adults and children across the Top End including remote circuit courts. She has experience working on capital cases in the USA, volunteering at the Capital Post-Conviction Project of Louisiana. She has also worked as a Judicial Clerk at the Supreme Court of New South Wales, a Senior Solicitor at the Crown Solicitor's Office, and a Volunteer Lawyer with the Police Powers Clinic at Redfern Legal Centre in Sydney, Australia.
Christina holds a B.A. (Hons)/LL.B. (Hons) from the University of Sydney, and an LL.M. from Harvard Law School. She can be reached at cwhite@law.harvard.edu.
Job Titles:
- Co - Executive Director of Justice Catalyst
Jacob Lipton is currently the Co-Executive Director of Justice Catalyst. His work includes philanthropic advising to support justice-focused legal innovation, promoting public interest litigation finance through Catalyst Impact, and administering the Justice Catalyst Fellowship program. Before joining Justice Catalyst, Jacob was Co-founder and Program Director of the Systemic Justice Project at Harvard Law School. Jacob holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was co-Editor in Chief of Unbound: Harvard Journal of the Legal Left, and a B.A. in Classics from King's College London. He serves on the boards of the ACLU of Massachusetts and People's Parity Project, and is admitted to practice law in Massachusetts.
Job Titles:
- Alan a. Stone Professor of Law
Jon Hanson is the Alan A. Stone Professor of Law and the Director of the Systemic Justice Project at Harvard Law School, where he has taught since 1992.
Hanson graduated from Rice University, summa cum laude with majors in Economics and Policy Studies. As a Thomas J. Watson Fellow, he researched the provision of neonatal intensive care services in the U.K. before attending attending Yale Law School. After law school, Hanson clerked for Judge José A. Cabranes, and was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Yale Law School.