Taking Liberties Episode 14: Evelyn Douek on Free Speech Online
On this episode, Executive Editor Samantha Neal speaks with Evelyn Douek, a lecturer on law and SJD candidate at Harvard Law School, about digital free speech: to what extent it should be regulated online, who the “arbiters of truth” are and why it matters, the threat...
Liberty University Trespassing Charges are a Threat to the Free Press
Photo Credit: Bank Phrom/Unsplash Last week, Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. announced that arrest warrants had been issued for two journalists for allegedly trespassing on the university’s campus in the course of their reporting on the university’s...
States are Protecting Animal-Based Agriculture at the Expense of the First Amendment
The First Amendment provides some protection for commercial speech, or speech on behalf of a corporation with the intent to produce profit. Despite this, many state governments are entertaining and passing legislation that would prevent plant-based meat and milk...
Evangelize from the Pulpit, Not in the Operating Room
Our shared Constitution ensures that we need not share a religion. However, in the name of religious liberty for health care providers, recent legal developments are chipping away at the rights of patients to seek medical procedures. Conscience-based objectors have...
The Right to Eat Halal Often Stops at the Prison Gate
The U.S. Supreme Court has held that while “prison walls do not form a barrier separating inmates from the protections of the Constitution,” the right to free speech can be curtailed when “legitimate penological concerns” are at stake. The Court’s unwillingness to...
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Prof. David S. Cohen (@dsc250) of @drexelkline writes about a “pernicious” and under-discussed provision in #SB8, Texas's anti-abortion law.
https://harvardlpr.com/2021/10/03/sb8s-unnoticed-sword-of-damocles-provision/
Today on the Amicus Blog @sarahbelle6 highlights one of the upcoming cases in the October SCOTUS term, Hemphill v. New York: https://harvardcrcl.org/hemphill-v-new-york-supreme-court-to-confront-a-question-on-the-confrontation-clause/
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