THIS WEEK IN CIVIL RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES: MARCH 2, 2020
Welcome to this week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties. This week, the Supreme Court will hear a case that could effectively limit abortion access across the country, and Harris County will begin to use pro bono law firm attorneys to prosecute misdemeanors....
Depositions May Protect Defendants’ Sixth Amendment Rights
Though the Sixth Amendment guarantees the right to a trial by jury, fewer than ten percent of individuals going through the criminal legal system exercise that right. In fact, both in the federal and state systems, 97 and 94 percent of felony cases respectively result...
THE CASE AGAINST CENTRAL SQUARE’S BUSINESS IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT
Just a few months ago, Cambridge City Council approved the creation of a business improvement district in the area around Central Square. Business improvement districts (BIDs) are special assessment districts created when property owners want to “initiate, manage and...
This Week in Civil Rights and Civil Liberties: November 4, 2019
This week’s roundup is co-authored by Amanda Epstein and Matthew Meyer. This week, hundreds of New Yorkers gathered to protest police brutality on the subway after a fare evasion crackdown, and a federal judge blocked a policy that would preclude immigrants without...
I'm excited to announce that my latest article, Outsourcing Discrimination, is out in @HarvardCRCL . It explores racial discrimination against Black temporary workers, the problematic narratives that drive this bias, and the challenges to addressing it. https://harvardcrcl.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2020/10/55-Harv.-C.R.-C.L.-L.-Rev.-915.pdf
The lives of Black victims do not matter nearly as much as those of white ones when it comes to the death penalty, a new study finds.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/us/racial-gap-death-penalty.html?referringSource=articleShare
Applications are open for article submissions for CR-CL 56.2. Please submit any articles that broadly touch on civil rights and civil liberties for publication. Details can be found here: https://harvardcrcl.org/submit/
Check out our newest blog post by Christina Coleburn about confronting racism! https://harvardcrcl.org/the-ostrich-rears-its-head-americas-2020-racial-reckoning-is-a-victory-and-opportunity/
Check out the second article in our series about racism and police brutality! Olivia Murray discusses prison abolition: https://harvardcrcl.org/why-8-wont-work/