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Harvard Law School's Vote On Divesting From Israel's War In Gaza Set For March - Above the Law

If spending money is akin to voting, divestment is how institutions boycott causes they don’t believe in. Harvard’s divestments have been on the right side of history — a partial divestment from apartheid South Africa in 1986, tobacco stocks in 1990, and functional divestment from fossil fuels in 2021 after years of pushback from their law students. HLS’s current student body is pushing to get the school to divest from companies. The Crimson has…