Harvard Law Students for Open Inquiry (OI) is a student organization that seeks to provide an open and welcoming forum for free expression at Harvard Law School. Because much of an HLS student’s time in the classroom is spent discussing the minutiae of legal doctrines and black letter law, it is easy to miss opportunities to have substantive and meaningful conversations on issues of importance and disagreement. As a result, we aim to create spaces for informed and educational conversations between HLS students across demographics and affinity groups, with all ideas—from across the ideological and political spectrum—open for discourse. Although we might host the occasional speaker, our meetings are entirely student-led and consist of discussions between peers.
We are a viewpoint- and content-neutral organization, save for the following commitments:
- We are committed to free expression and open dialogue. We recognize that this embodies a viewpoint.
- We ask that participants address the substance of an argument rather than its source (i.e., no ad hominem argumentation).
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