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...
As a journal, we stand with the student protestors HLS is attempting to discipline for exercising their free speech rights regarding prison divestment. Please sign the petition here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1TGkQyJlUPuvl9wqv5MAis8c7iec9A5JFzY92tj0Z_ns/viewform?edit_requested=true
We have 3 terrific pieces up on how progressives must reclaim the meaning of our Constitution.
Our contributors reflect back on progressives' priorities at the beginning of the Obama Administration and look forward to fights in 2021 and beyond.
https://harvardlpr.com/2020/04/02/online-symposium-the-future-of-progressive-constitutionalism/
CR-CL is live blogging the Semi-Final Round of the Ames Moot Court Competition tonight! Check out our updates starting at 6:15 pm EST at https://harvardcrcl.org/ames-semi-final-round-march-9-2020/
This weekend, we celebrated 55 years of pushing the bounds of legal scholarship. Special thanks to our keynote speaker @vanitaguptaCR, our more than thirty panelists, and our entire CR-CL community. To the next 55!
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We need to get the #FAIRAct through the Senate—but until that happens, it's up to states to respond to the forced arbitration crisis. Fantastic new @HarvardCRCL post from @BennJennett & @daveyseligman on how states can take action.
#EndForcedArbitration
https://harvardcrcl.org/sunshine-is-not-enough-state-responses-to-the-enforcement-crisis-caused-by-forced-arbitration/
Still hoping that courts will revive a general liberty or expression right to student dress freedom as @djuna22 and I advocated in @HarvardCRCL. In the meantime, Equal Protection, Free Exercise, and compelled speech doing a decent job policing the boundaries of gov’t overreach. https://twitter.com/galenleigh/status/1199442702582059008
Another thing to be thankful for this week: declaratory judgment finding that the provision of Charter Day School dress code requiring girls to wear skirts violates Equal Protection, & order permanently enjoining the school from establishing or enforcing the provision. Justice!