# @penncareylaw_alumni on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2022-04-06T16:53:06.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Penn Carey Law Alumni (@penncareylaw_alumni) — https://gondola.cc/penncareylaw_alumni

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Congratulations to Margaret Burnham L'69 who was recently confirmed as a member of the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board! 🎉 🎉 Margaret, founder and director of Northwestern School of Law’s Civil Rights and Restorative Justice Project (CRRJ), is an expert in civil and human rights, comparative constitutional rights, and international criminal law. 
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Margaret began her career at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund and, in 1977, became the first African American woman to serve in the Massachusetts judiciary, when she joined the Boston Municipal Court bench as an associate justice. In 1982, she became partner in a Boston civil rights firm with an international human rights practice. In 1993, South African president Nelson Mandela appointed Professor Burnham to serve on an international human rights commission to investigate alleged human rights violations within the African National Congress. 
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“This board has before it critical work. Our Nation should have broad access to records that help us understand our history, and the families involved deserve to know what the authorities knew at the time these events took place,” Margaret said in response to the news of her confirmation. “As founder and director of CRRJ, I’ve worked with hundreds of families who simply want to know what their government did to protect their loved ones. These official documents will help to reconstruct that story.”
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