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...
On one read, Fulton is decidedly narrow; on another, it represents a subtle but worrisome expansion of religious liberty at the expense of other fundamental rights. Read below! https://harvardcrcl.org/a-tale-of-two-fultons/ https://twitter.com/HarvardCRCL/status/1406982603094335492
New on the Amicus Blog: @samjuneneal examines the Supreme Court's limited decision in Fulton v. City of Philadelphia, and what it means for both the future of free exercise principles and LGBTQ rights https://harvardcrcl.org/a-tale-of-two-fultons/
Though the Supreme Court's decision yesterday in Fulton has been hailed as narrow, its silent expansion of religious liberty should give LGBT rights litigants pause. I wrote about it for the @HarvardCRCL blog. Read here: https://harvardcrcl.org/a-tale-of-two-fultons/
A new episode of our podcast, Taking Liberties, is up! On this episode, editor Laura Garcia speaks with @MALDEF's Nina Perales. They discuss her work as an impact litigator, voting rights, civil rights issues facing the LatinX community, and more.
https://harvardcrcl.org/taking-liberties-episode-16-nina-perales-of-maldef/
Hey! You! It's Friday afternoon and I know you're not really working. Take a minute to read my post on @HarvardCRCL's blog! I reflect on my recent experience in West Roxbury court and how we define "efficiency" in the criminal legal system.
https://harvardcrcl.org/criminally-inefficient/