Supreme Court preview: New York Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen
Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Mark Tushnet explains SCOTUS’s upcoming gun control case, New York Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen.
Supreme Court preview: Ramirez v. Collier
Josh McDaniel, director of Harvard’s Religious Freedom Clinic, explains the Supreme Court’s upcoming Free Exercise case — and how his clinic is involved.
Power to the people
In “Power to the People: Constitutionalism in the Age of Populism,” co-authors Mark Tushnet and Bojan Bugarič argue that populism is neither inherently conservative nor necessarily inconsistent with constitutional democracy.
‘A huge crisis that we’ve never experienced before’
Harvard Law Today recently spoke with Harvard Law School Professor Howell E. Jackson about what could happen if the United States defaulted on its debts for the first time in history.
Moderating free speech
At a Federalist Society event, David French ’94 says government “should keep its hands off” social media and argues that support for free speech is waning across the political spectrum.
Pay no attention to the justices behind the curtain
Charles Fried, Richard Lazarus ’79, Tejinder Singh ’08, and Carol Steiker ’86 discuss the Supreme Court’s increasingly important emergency powers known as its “shadow docket.”
‘We have to spend more time on the inequalities that are embedded in the law itself’
September 2021 saw the publication of the inaugural issue of The American Journal of Law and Equality, a project developed by Professors Martha Minow, Randall Kennedy, and Cass Sunstein, in collaboration with MIT Press.
‘Our original Constitution was both 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.