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 [...]
On Thursday, April 5, 2012, from 5-7PM in Wasserstein 1015 at Harvard Law School, CR-CL will present a colloquium, “The State of Progressive Constitutional Theory: The Paradox of Constitutional Democracy and the Project of Political Justification.” The colloquium honors the forthcoming article by Nimer Sultany exploring the perils and paradoxes inherent in the search for a progressive theory of the United States Constitution. Speakers will include Dean Martha Minow and Professors Karl Klare, Frank Michelman, and Duncan Kennedy.
Article drafts and video of CR-CL’s recent colloquium. On Monday, March 26, 2012, the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, in conjunction with the Juvenile Law Center and the Milbank Foundation, presented a colloquium: Roper, Graham, and J.D.B.: Redefining Juveniles’ Constitutional Rights. Guests at the event included Martin Guggenheim of NYU Law School, Marsha Levick and Robert Schwartz of the Juvenile Law Center, Michael Dale, of the Nova Southeastern Law Center, and the Hon. Jay Blitzman, chief judge of the Middlesex County Juvenile Court.
In his article forthcoming in Volume 47:1 of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, “The Right to Comprehensive Educational Opportunity,” Michael A. Rebell, a professor at Columbia University Teachers College, argues for the recognition of a constitutional right to quality education for all children. The author was joined by Dean Martha Minow, Chair of the Institute for Educational Leadership Marty Blank, and Massachusetts Secretary of Education Paul Reville for a panel discussion of his article.
San Francisco City Attorney Kathleen Morris was joined by Professor David Barron and Professor Gerald Frug of Harvard Law School and Professor Richard Ford of Stanford Law School to discuss whether local governments are powerless instrumentalities of states or whether they should be allowed to pursue constitutional claims on behalf of their constituents. HarvardCRCL.org blogged the discussion live.
The HLS Middle East Law Students Association presents: Developments in Material Support Law
March 3, 2011 at 6pm, Austin North at Harvard Law School
This panel will explore the implications of the the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project and the current landscape for material support prosecutions in the US.
Co-sponsored by the Human Rights Program at HLS, the Islamic Legal Studies Program at HLS, Justice for Palestine at HLS, the National Lawyers Guild – HLS Chapter, the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, ACLU-HLS, and ACS.
On Saturday, February 26, The Project on Law and Mind Sciences at Harvard Law School will hold its Fifth Conference on Law and Mind Sciences, entitled The Psychology of Inequality.
On our way to an article selection committee meeting for Volume 47, we passed a few Cambridge residents rallying for Egyptian independence… and especially a policy of U.S. government non-intervention.
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