This six-credit course, open to Northeastern law students and graduate students, includes:

• One seminar a week, covering the legal, historical, and theoretical material that supports and orients the work of the student’s research endeavors.

• The clinical element, involving the investigation of racially motivated murders of African Americans in the Jim Crow South from 1930-1970.

• Students may also work with relatives of the victims to design and implement a restorative justice initiative for those impacted by the violence.