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• A New Role for the Forgotten Amendment?

  Amicus, By Andrew Mamo, Privacy and National Security March 14, 2013 at 7:46 pm 1 comment

  The future of cybersecurity is in flux, but its shape will be affected by our constitutional protections. To that end, and because much of cybersecurity planning involves creative thinking about potential challenges in a dynamic environment, it is important to think creatively about the protections that we have. At the risk of being a little too “out there,” this post suggests a role for a forgotten constitutional amendment in limiting cybersecurity proposals to protect basic civil liberties.

   

• Could Big Tech be the solution to passing sensible gun laws?

  Amicus, Events February 21, 2013 at 6:11 pm 2 comments

  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 Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School. Those in attendance would agree that [...]

   

• Nixon’s Ghost

  Amicus, By Andrew Mamo, Human Rights, Privacy and National Security February 9, 2013 at 3:54 pm 2 comments

  We know that Obama has largely continued the drone policies of the Bush administration. Even so, the approving nod to Nixon’s expansion of the Vietnam War across Southeast Asia is an unexpected development.

   

• Building Better Lawyers

  Amicus, By Duncan Farthing-Nichol, Education December 7, 2012 at 7:03 pm 0 comments

  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 schools must do more.

   

• This Week in Non-Discriminatory Housing News

  Amicus, By Allison Wiseman, Original Content November 30, 2012 at 12:21 pm 0 comments

  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 Sussex County, Delaware and the Planning and Zoning Commission of Sussex County for violations of the Fair Housing Act.  The lawsuit alleges that [...]

   

• The Creeping Control of the Everyday

  Amicus, By Duncan Farthing-Nichol, Consumers and Corporations November 25, 2012 at 7:52 pm 0 comments

  The watchdogs of liberty must diversify their business. Private products and private services have come to dominate our lives, to induce our dependence and to encircle our worlds. If we sleep or look elsewhere, the circle may become a noose.

   

• Sex and Tech: Notes on a Scandal

  Amicus, By Andrew Mamo, Consumers and Corporations, LGBTQ Rights, Privacy and National Security, Reproductive Rights November 15, 2012 at 6:35 pm 1 comment

  It is entirely appropriate that we focus on data privacy in the context of sex scandals, and this points to something crucially important for privacy activists. The combination of concern about sexual autonomy and about technologically-enabled surveillance has been a crucial driver in privacy law.

   

• People Before Profit

  Amicus, By Duncan Farthing-Nichol, Poverty and Economic Justice November 13, 2012 at 11:37 pm 0 comments

  “We can help,” the America of today says, “we can heal your sick and feed your hungry. But only if you acquiesce to our methods and accept less so that we may profit from your misfortune.” That self-serving message in the end doesn’t even serve the self, for a friend stingy in times of need earns little loyalty.

   

• Some Thoughts on Elections in an Era of Extreme Weather

  Amicus, By Eric Rice, Voting and Elections November 9, 2012 at 4:14 pm 0 comments

  Weather dictated the choice of a date for Election Day in America.  The first Tuesday after the first Monday in November placed the election after the labor of the harvest had been completed and before the snows would block access to the polls.  However, as New Jersey voters, such as [...]

   

• Fisher: Revisiting CRCL’s Responses to Hopwood v. Texas

  Amicus, By Andrew Mamo, Courts, Education, Race and Immigration November 6, 2012 at 6:23 pm 1 comment

  With this year’s big affirmative action case, Fisher v. University of Texas, being one of the highlights of the Supreme Court’s current term, it is worth circling back to CRCL’s previous treatment of the issue and reflecting on the moment in the 1990s when Hopwood killed UT’s earlier attempt to use affirmative action to remedy a history of segregation. What can these articles tell us about the issues at stake in Fisher? There seem to be two general lessons.