This Week in Non-Discriminatory Housing News
This week, the Justice Department settled two lawsuits against defendants charged with discriminatory housing practices. The Justice Department announced Wednesday that it had settled a lawsuit against...
View ArticleBuilding Better Lawyers
The watchers on the walls defending rights and liberties are often lawyers, yet those lawyers must ascend to their posts themselves, their legal training preparing them little for the climb. Law...
View ArticleNixon’s Ghost
If you haven’t yet read the leaked white paper about the legality of drone strikes, you really ought to do so now. Considering that this seems to be the present and the future of military action, and...
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A summary of Lawrence Lessig’s Chair Lecture at Harvard Law School
“Aaron’s Laws: Law and Justice in a Digital Age” Feb. 19, 2013 Watch the lecture here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HAw1i4gOU4&feature=youtu.be. PLEASE WATCH IT Professor Larry Lessig,...
View ArticleCould Big Tech be the solution to passing sensible gun laws?
Guest post by Theresa Borden HLS ’14 On February 19, Professor Lawrence Lessig presented a lecture titled” Aaron’s Laws: Law and Justice in a Digital Age” in honor of his appointment as Roy L. Furman...
View ArticleInadequate Redress and the No-Fly List
Last July, the Ninth Circuit in Latif v. Holder held that the district courts have original jurisdiction over claims that the government failed to afford U.S. citizens and legal residents an adequate...
View ArticleRecap of PLAP Solitary Confinement Panel
Guest Post by Jacob Alderdice, HLS ’14 Harvard PLAP Panel on Solitary Confinement Solitary confinement, a practice that has been under scrutiny for hundreds of years, continues to be widespread...
View ArticleA New Role for the Forgotten Amendment?
In response to the rise of hacking, cyber-theft, espionage, etc., the openness of the Internet is under a new form of attack. Understandably, given the potential magnitude of security harms and of...
View ArticleThe Legal Aftermath of the Attacks
I’ve been planning to write a blog entry on education, but the events of the last week have pushed that aside for now. But, even if the bombings and the shootings and yesterday’s regional lockdown have...
View ArticleThe Stratification of Access to Education
Having experienced the first iteration of Harvard Law School’s experiment with MOOCs (massively open online courses), I wanted to return to a prescient piece by David Noble. It is now 15 years old, but...
View ArticleCivil Rights Lawyering in the 21st Century, An Interview with Tomiko Brown-Nagin
The courts have changed in such a way that it’s hard to bring affirmative [racial] claims, which is why I think one of the things that 21st century proponents of equality have to be willing to do is to...
View ArticlePsychology’s Reasonable Doubts
IN DOUBT: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE PROCESS. By Dan Simon. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2012. Pp. 405. $45.00 I. The criminal justice process does not work as well as we...
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Don’t Restrict My Religious Freedom (to Oppress You)
Over the past few months, circuit courts have started weighing in on the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that employers’ health plans include contraception at no cost to employees, and it’s clearly...
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Brains on Trial with Alan Alda
Last week, Alan Alda stopped by the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT to promote his newest PBS documentary, Brains on Trial. The two part series seeks to explore how advancements in...
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Supreme Court Term in Review 2013
On Thursday, September 26th, Harvard Law School held a review of the previous term of the Supreme Court. The panelists included Professors Charles Fried, Tomiko Brown-Nagin, Michael Klarman, Visiting...
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Do the Math
Do the math. As economic inequality has reached historic highs, and as political squabbles have led to a government shutdown and the possibility of a failure to raise the debt ceiling, economic and...
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In the Public’s Interest: Intelligence Whistleblowers Need Protection, Too
When Edward Snowden first came forward as the source of leaked documents detailing the surveillance programs of the National Security Agency, he maintained that his sole motivation was “to inform the...
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Linda Greenhouse on The Roberts Project
Linda Greenhouse – October 10, 2013 Ms. Greenhouse began by noting that it is an under appreciated aspect of the Supreme Court that the Court gets to decide which cases it wants to decide. There are...
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“Arguments Are Cheap,” Says Justice Breyer
“Arguments are cheap. Briefs are filled with thousands. What matters is what grabs you.” Justice Breyer stopped by Wasserstein on October 1 for an hour of wry advice, reflection, and jokes. Breyer...
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Trick or Treat: The Neighborhood is Watching
What could be funnier than dressing as a bloodied-Trayvon Martin and a neighborhood watch captain for Halloween? Almost anything, really. This Halloween, a photo featuring two men dressed as Trayvon...
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