The Institute’s Policy Clinic involves students in each of four policy teams to advance client goals: community equity, health/food, human rights, and trade. See links to the right for the work of each team and student projects.
Harrison Institute News
Featured News
July 29, 2020
Community equity
The Georgetown Climate Center released its Equitable Adaptation Legal and Policy Toolkit. Harrison Institute staff contributed two chapters:
-- Jennifer Li wrote the chapter on Resilient Affordable Housing, Anti-Displacement and Gentrification. Alex Votaw (policy clinic 2019-20) contributed analysis on housing and displacement.
-- Sara Hoverter wrote the chapter on Public Health, which covers planning, traditional public health roles, and built environment tools.
February 18, 2020
Human rights, community equity
The Harrison Institute hosted the Centre for Sport and Human Rights (Geneva), which led a workshop on how to design a scorecard for host cities in the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which will occur in the United States, Mexico, and Canada. Scores would show a city's capacity to secure worker rights, protect participants in FIFA events, and minimize adverse community impacts. Led by Mary Harvey, CEO of the Centre and former World Cup goalie, participants in the workshop included the State Department, Human Rights Watch, AFL-CIO, Human Rights Campaign, Athlete Ally, Good Jobs First, Business & Human Rights Resource Centre, International Labor Rights Forum, and Independent Supporters Council (of soccer fans).
December 27, 2019
Trade and climate policy
Matt Porterfield, the Harrison Institute's deputy director, published his article--Border Adjustments for Carbon Taxes, PPMs and the WTO--in the University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law. As the consensus for a carbon tax grows, one concern is that a tax will shift production and jobs to countries that rely on fossil fuels. The solution is to adjust a carbon tax at the border: levy the tax on imports and rebate the tax on exports. Matt's article explains how the WTO provides a path for adjusting consumption taxes at the border, including taxes on inputs used in a production process.
Featured Events
March 31 - April 2, 2020
National webinar
University purchasing: protecting food workers
Robert Stumberg led a roundtable update for programs working to protect workers who supply food to university students and staff. Fifteen universities are participating to date--including Michigan, the California system, Notre Dame, George Washington, Pittsburgh, and Arizona State, among others. Georgetown participants in this event included Mark Pearce (Workers Rights Institute), Joseph McCartin (Kalmanovitz Initiative), and Sara Hoverter (Harrison Institute).
2:00 pm
Johns Hopkins School of International Studies - 1919 Mass Ave. NW
Sustainable Trade in a Transatlantic Perspective
Matt Porterfield, deputy director of the Harrison Institute, spoke on prospects for trans-Atlantic cooperation on carbon taxes. The panel will include a conversation with Bernd Lange, Chair of the European Parliament's International Trade Committee, Standing rapporteur EU-US trade relations.
February 28 - March 1, 2020
University of Arkansas School of Law
Food Law Student Leadership Summit
Sara Hoverter, staff attorney at the Harrison Institute, lead a seminar on university food purchasing at the Food Law Student Leadership Summit. The summit convenes law students from around the country who share a passion for creating an equitable, transparent, healthy, and sustainable food system.
