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(Cambridge, MA - June 11, 2009) Martha Minow, the Jeremiah Smith, Jr., Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, will become the dean of the Faculty of Law on July 1, Harvard University President Drew Faust announced.

In the age of growing polarization, how do you tackle injustice without demonizing your enemies? Former Harvard Law School dean Martha Minow tackles that question in her 2023 Horace E. Read Memorial Lecture.Martha Minow is a leading human rights scholar, who has taught law at Harvard University since 1981. Former U.S. president Barack Obama says she was a professor who changed his life.

"Demonizing others strips away the humanity of other human beings and threatens to unleash the darkest aspects of human nature," she said. Philosopher Margaret Walker describes this goal in terms of morally adequate relations that assure people confidence that they share some basic standards for the treatment of each other, that people can trust one another to abide by those standards and to acknowledge fault, if not — and that means that people are justified in their hope that unacceptable treatment will not prevail and victims will not be abandoned in their reliance on that shared commitment.

When dealing with large groups and society as a whole, laws and norms have to be continually renewed to channel disagreements away from violence, to deepen respect for each person, and to work on the reforms that are necessary to make that respect visible and real. And this requires something even harder — a spirit of humility and openness to learning.

Disagreements will be inevitable. The question is whether they can occur with civility and respect, which requires genuine openness. Decent and smart people can profoundly disagree with each other. Come to my classes, they and we can on occasion even persuade one another!

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