Dehlia Umunna
Appearance
Dehlia Victoria Umunna is a Clinical Professor of Law and Deputy Director of the Criminal Justice Institute (CJI) at Harvard Law School. Professor Umunna is a nationally renowned expert on Criminal Law, criminal defense and theory, mass incarceration, and race issues.
Quotes
[edit]- “Every traumatic event is an opportunity to reset for greatness,”
- “Say and do the most important things now instead of putting them off.”[1] Professor Dehlia Umunna became the first to deliver a Last Lecture in the season of COVID-19 lockdown.
- “I’ve been teaching law for almost 40 years. And I recently realized we don’t really teach people in law school about the tools of forgiveness that are built into the legal system.”[2] Today, we’re talking with Harvard law professors Dehlia Umunna and Martha Minow about when and how the law should forgive.