A well-known professor at Harvard Law School has taken a leave of absence to join the government of Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula de Silva.
Roberto M. Unger, a Brazilian by birth, officially assumed the title of Secretary of Long Term Planning last week, The Harvard Crimson reports.
Mr. Unger is known for his role in the development of critical legal studies, a scholarly movement based on the belief that law in many ways reflects and reiterates social hierarchy and inequities rather than universal principles. —Jeffrey Selingo
