‘Brilliant and highly flawed’
Harvard Law Professor Alan Jenkins discusses the U.S. Constitution and its treatment of race, how to guarantee fundamental rights, and why lawyers should be better communicators.
Investigating mask mandate bans
Michael Ashley Stein ’88, executive director of the Harvard Law School Project on Disability, says the Department of Education should go beyond the Americans with Disabilities Act in investigating state bans against mandating face coverings in schools.
John B. Bellinger III ’86: ‘I really mostly worry about the future’
Former legal adviser to the National Security Council during the Bush administration says 20 years after 9/11, he’s frustrated there hasn’t been more progress toward an international legal framework for dealing with terrorism.
Juan C. Zarate ’97: ‘There’s a lot of presumption of the demise of American power, and I’m raging against that’
A counterterrorism czar in the Bush administration, and the first-ever assistant secretary of the Treasury for terrorist financing and financial crimes, says the U.S. needs to reconceptualize what power means in the 21st century.
Jane Harman ’69: ‘We haven’t learned that when we work together we overcome’
Twenty years after the 9/11 attacks, a former California congresswoman and ranking member of House Intelligence Committee reflects on events of that day and the calamities we still confront.
Twenty years after 9/11, leaders in the nation’s response reflect
On the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, Harvard Law Today asked five Harvard Law School alumni and a former adjunct professor, all of whom had prominent roles in counterterrorism and other national policies during and after 9/11, to share their reflections about the events of that day.
Michael Chertoff ’78: ‘What are we going to do to make sure it doesn’t arise again?’
The former head of Homeland Security and co-author of the USA Patriot Act says the U.S. needs a strategy for dislodging terrorist groups.
Jamie Gorelick ’75: ‘The need for both vigilance and imagination remains high’
A co-author of the 9/11 Commission report, who served on the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, says engaged citizenry united in its efforts will make this country safer.
Making connections—and a difference—through Student Practice Organizations
Each year, half of HLS’ first-year J.D. students and around a quarter of LL.M. students participate in at least one of HLS’ 11 Student Practice Organizations, with some involved in multiple organizations at once.
A special responsibility
As special master of the September 11th Victim Compensation Fund, or VCF, Rupa Bhattacharyya ’95 is working to ensure that fair compensation goes to the victims of the attacks.