The Cambridge Analytica Revelations Show Why Data Privacy is an Essential Right
Guest Post by David Meyerson, @dbmeyerson, a Software Engineer at Microsoft and co-teacher of computer science in Boston Public Schools. Personal data from 87 million Facebook users in the U.S. was used without those users’ consent to help political consulting firm...
Professor Jennifer Reynolds: Dispute Resolution in Criminal Contexts
Professor Jennifer Reynolds is an associate professor at the University of Oregon School of Law, visiting this year at Harvard Law School. This spring, she is teaching “Advanced Negotiation: Alternative Dispute Resolution in the Criminal Context.” This course is new...
Professor Laura Sjoberg: On Transgender People and the Military
Almost a year ago, following the lifting of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and the combat ban against women, the United States military ended its ban on transgender soldiers. Then-Defense Secretary Ash Carter argued at the time that “we don’t want barriers unrelated to a...
Professor Sarah Krakoff: Standing With Tribes Beyond Standing Rock
“This is not just a Standing Rock issue . . . This is a human rights issue.” Those were the words of Cheyenne River Sioux tribal member Joye Braun last fall, when hopes of defeating the Dakota Access Pipeline ran high. In the waning days of the Obama...
Steve Elzie: How to Defend Refugees and Fight the Trump Travel Ban Using International Law in American Courts
The Trump travel ban executive orders, issued in January and March 2017, each called for a 120-day suspension of the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (“USRAP”) in order to allow for a review of the security measures necessary by executive agencies.[1] Both orders were...
With the 1st Annual Critical Race theory Conference, we are reclaiming the student activist tradition of creating physical, political, emotional, social, and academic spaces of liberation. @HarvardBLSA @HarvardCRCL @harvardblj https://t.co/mlzRDaik7d
House Democrats just introduced a new bill to fight sexual harassment by outlawing forced arbitration for employees and and prohibiting non-disclosures which cover up sexual harassment. Details from @OnLaborBlog 👇🏽 https://t.co/i7mjJK9eNo
Great piece by @NoMoreDeaths on @HarvardCRCL "We believe that attempts to criminalize the humanitarian aid work our group and others like it perform are part of a larger, systemic movement against undocumented people in the US." #AbolishICE #ChingaLaMigra #abolishicebox https://t.co/356hbb4TOe
Reminder that we’ll be accepting submissions from #NPOC19 until April 4th; see below for more details!
CR-CL is proud to be a publishing partner of the Fourth National People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference. We are accepting submissions from the conference until April 4th; see below for more details.
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