The Harvard Law School Library recently hosted an event commemorating the sweeping legacy of Charles J. Ogletree Jr. ’78 and celebrating the completion of the Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. Working Papers Digitization Project, ensuring his deep insights will continue to benefit future scholars.
The Ogletree Working Papers Digitization Project at Harvard Law School began after Ogletree’s family donated the collection to the library in 2022. As the largest collection of Harvard Law faculty papers, it comprises 654 boxes and 566 linear feet of materials from his career as a professor, author, legal theorist, and advocate.
Ogletree, who died in 2023, was a champion for racial equality and an esteemed educator at Harvard Law School, where he taught for 36 years. He founded the Criminal Justice Institute, the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, and the famed “Saturday School” program.
