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Lucie E. White is the Louis Horvitz Professor at Harvard Law School with decades of experience in social welfare law and a focus on extreme poverty issues in Sub-Saharan Africa. In 1999, she launched the Harvard Law School’s Ghana project, which collaborates with local partners and student teams to promote economic and social rights for Ghana's disadvantaged groups. Her work encompasses health finance in the oil sector and primary education. White founded the “Stones of Hope” project in collaboration with African human rights advocates to explore African innovations in the Economic and Social Rights advocacy arena, culminating in the publication of a key work in 2010. She applies her legal expertise to various initiatives addressing human rights impacts of petroleum policies and participates in long-term research projects on development. Currently, she is engaged in personal essays addressing her experiences growing up during Jim Crow and examining sustainable development pathways amidst the global climate crisis. Her teaching spans topics including Global Poverty, Economic Development, and the Reparation for Africans’ Enslavement. White has clerked for District Judge James McMillan and is a licensed attorney in multiple states.
Applied for under 'Department of Law', 'Department of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law', 'Department of Constitutional Law', 'Department of Japanese Legal Studies', and 'Department of Human Rights'.