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Protecting the media to protect democracy

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At a Harvard Law School Library Book Talk, Martha Minow, along with Vicki Jackson and Nikolas Bowie, discussed why the press is in danger — and how to save it.

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  • Topics: Constitutional, Cyberlaw, Ethics, Legal History, Public Policy

Is it time to swipe left on social media?

Facebook Whistleblower Frances Haugen Testifies Before Senate Commerce Subcommittee

Leaked revelations about Instagram’s impact on teens have united Republicans and Democrats in considering legal reforms, say Harvard Law School scholars.

  • Themes: Faculty Scholarship
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Can Donald Trump still assert executive privilege?

President’s Podium

Former White House Counsel and Harvard Law Lecturer Neil Eggleston explains the legal doctrine, its origins, and how it applies to ex-presidents.

  • Themes: Faculty Scholarship
  • Topics: Ethics

Moderating free speech

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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.

  • Themes: Teaching & Learning
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‘We have to spend more time on the inequalities that are embedded in the law itself’

Scales of Justice

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.

  • Themes: Faculty Scholarship
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A Q&A with Mason Marks on new psychedelics law and regulation initiative

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Mason Marks, POPLAR project lead and Petrie-Flom senior fellow, explains how the initiative will fill a gap in research on the ethical, legal, and social implications of psychedelics law and policy, and previews some of the initiative’s topics of inquiry.

  • Topics: Ethics, Health Law & Policy

Oh, what a tangled web we weave

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Deception spreads faster than truth on social media. If a healthy democracy relies on an informed populace — or at least one not deliberately disinformed by malicious actors — then the prevalence of disinformation is an existential threat. What, if anything, can or should be done?

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  • Themes: Faculty Scholarship
  • Topics: Business, Constitutional, Cyberlaw, Ethics

‘We’re on a collision course with sanity’

Minow named University Professor

Harvard University Professor and former Harvard Law School dean Martha Minow argues for a new Fairness Doctrine and other reforms in a National Constitution Center panel on free speech and media.

  • Themes: Faculty Scholarship
  • Topics: Constitutional, Cyberlaw, Ethics, Legal History, Public Policy, Public Service, Science & Technology, Sports & Entertainment

‘We have the common ground of all getting through this together’

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Health law has become especially timely in this year of COVID-19 vaccines and revitalized Obamacare. But for graduating student Phebe Hong ’21, it’s a passion that began in high school.

  • Themes: Student Spotlights
  • Topics: Ethics, Health Law & Policy, Public Policy, Science & Technology
  • Student Orgs & Journals: Harvard Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, Harvard Journal of Law and Technology

Did Facebook’s Oversight Board get the Trump decision right?

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Professor Noah Feldman, who first proposed the idea of the Oversight Board to Facebook, weighs in on its decision to deplatform President Donald Trump following the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection.

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  • Topics: Business, Cyberlaw, Ethics

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